A GNOME 2.8 preview

[Posted August 2, 2004 by corbet]

Davyd Madeley has put up a "What's new in GNOME 2.8?" page with lots of pictures of new widgets which will appear in the next major GNOME release.

A GNOME 2.8 preview

Posted Aug 2, 2004 16:31 UTC (Mon) by maceto (guest, #16498) [Link] (3 responses)

grrr can`t wait for Novell 1 with something like gnome 2.8, nice smooth fonts, dvd player (could be) new realplayer,yast,novell software etc

Fedora is in between, is how I feal it- it has what gnoem have on slack, you have to use some times on it, but then I`d rater go with slack.

But some nice kde distro`s soon to be out:

http://www.lycoris.com/images/ai2menus.png
http://www.lycoris.com/sneakpeek/sneakpeek12.php etc, but I have to say- gnome look better, we don`t all want YELLOW BRIGHT colors, that XP and MAC can do for us, some want a more traditional feal to it, I like to compare a ferrari (yellow as such) with Aston Martin. Bet you understand what is what.

A GNOME 2.8 preview

Posted Aug 2, 2004 19:08 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

we don`t all want YELLOW BRIGHT colors

There are these things called `themes', you know. That is customizable. Even on KDE.

A GNOME 2.8 preview

Posted Aug 2, 2004 20:25 UTC (Mon) by maceto (guest, #16498) [Link] (1 responses)

hehe, yes but still it`s not as nice :-)

A GNOME 2.8 preview

Posted Aug 3, 2004 0:33 UTC (Tue) by juanjux (guest, #11652) [Link]

Still, most of the things detailed there are already in KDE:

* easily edit file associations (no more confusing file types capplet)
* lengthy transfers now give a time to completion
* FTP authentication (and new, improved FTP module)
* browse network services via Rendezvous (now called OpenTalk) => KDE
doesn't have AFAIK, rendezvous but LISA (AKA lan://) does nicely.
* now with wireless support (kwifimanager)
* Gconf editor: now with searchability => Curious, I've sometimes read
Gnome users laughing about KControl because it has a "search" capability.
* improved cd burning interface => and K3b still rocks :)
* keyring manager displaying the default key (Kgpg)
etc

There are others thing that seem to be nice and KDE doesn't have:

* Gnome system tools
* a selection of tools for GNOME Nettool (but there is a similar KDE
program on the way)

A GNOME 2.8 preview

Posted Aug 2, 2004 23:47 UTC (Mon) by gavino (guest, #16214) [Link]

I hope they implement a lot of the ideas from Project GoneME. A lot of my frustrations with Gnome are succinctly detailed at this project's website http://www.goneme.org (if it is working).