LWN: Comments on "GNOME 2.2.0 released"

Developer Platform?

jdub — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:30:12 +0000

The "Desktop" part of the release is the basic desktop environment and utilities -> definitely for users, it rocks way hard. The "Developer Platform" part of the release is the set of libraries for which we guarantee API/ABI compatibility during the 2.x releases -> definitely for developers.

Because the Desktop is based on the Developer Platform, and is usually the first large software stack to use the new features available, we release them together. Then third party developers are able to target the 2.2 release, being certain of the functionality that is available to them.

Developer Platform?

pointwood — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:30:40 +0000

I'm a bit confused - why is it called "The GNOME 2.2.0 Desktop and Developer Platform"? I don't use GNOME - is this supposed to be primarily used by developers or?

GNOME 2.2.0 released

tjc — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 01:27:22 +0000

[OK] [Cancel]

Yeah, except that doesn't look so bad! :-)

What's up with the [cancel][ok] thing anyway? Several times I've clicked cancel thinking that I clicked ok, and then sit there for 10 seconds wondering "why isn't anything happening?" Or worse yet, "why is my system rebooting?"

The entire usability test group must consist of Apple users. Perhaps metacity should reverse the default order of its titlebar buttons just to be consistent, instead of this half Mac/half Windows thing.

GNOME 2.2.0 released

apw — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 01:10:02 +0000

[OK] [Cancel]

GNOME 2.2.0 released

Peter — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:15:49 +0000

Nope, you're right. The words switched were.

Nah, you're subtly missing the flavor. Switched, the words were.

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GNOME 2.2.0 released

Strike — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:16:03 +0000

Nope, you're right. The words switched were.

</pathetic joke>

GNOME 2.2.0 released

gadeiros — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:14:12 +0000

"Thanks to our all users and contributors!"

Is this correct English (American?) ?

In German there is something like "unser aller" but refers usually to a single object or something uncountable like "unser aller Gesundheit" and means something that belongs to each of us distinctly, i.e. my health (Gesundheit) is not identical to someone else's health.

So should it have been
"Thanks to all our users and contributors!"
or is it correct as it is.
Can't imagine a typo in the About dialog would go into final...

I'm really just curious (i.e. no flame or nitpicking intended).

GNOME 2.2.0 released

Strike — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:11:09 +0000

Well, I've been using the Release Candidates as they have come out and things have been pretty smooth. The new stuff too, even. I like acme, for example, it allows me to use the multimedia keys on my keyboard as they were meant to. And I finally get the font config dialog I saw when I played with Redhat 8.0 on my Debian system so I can mess with the hinting settings with the font config tool instead of gconf-editor :) The theme settings seem to work better than they were before, but with a few exceptions. So, it's not perfect, but it's quite good.

GNOME 2.2.0 released

Peter — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:35:59 +0000

Oh yeah, almost forgot: congratulations to Jeff and the rest of the GNOME release team. Releasing anything on time is hard. Releasing this much ahead of schedule must have been much harder. Very cool, though. Almost creepy cool.

GNOME 2.2.0 released

Peter — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:33:13 +0000

Remember last time GNOME released ahead of schedule? When the core components of 1.0 were (allegedly) rushed out the door to meet a LinuxWorld announcement deadline or some such? Seems so very long ago. Here's hoping this release comes out a little smoother....