Gnome Begins The 1.2 Freeze

A reader wrote to us with the news from Gnome.org stating that the freeze for 1.2 has begun. Gnome-core and gnome-applets 1.1.1 (Beantown) was released at the same time, but is meant for "advanced users and developers" so play carefully kids. This release marks the last release with new features until post-1.2 - a full list of the new features/fixes is in the changes list of 1.1.1.

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NOT all of GNOME

[Havoc Pennington]

Note that gnome-core (panel, session manager, some other desktop components) will have a 1.2 release, but gnome-libs, control-center, and some other components will be jumping straight to 2.0 and will come out some months after gnome-core does. gnome-core will also get a 2.0 update. So this is not GNOME 1.2 but "Half of GNOME 1.2" the other half of GNOME will go straight to 2.0 over a longer timeframe.

A Total Zealot's Guide to >>Desktop Environments

[Jikes]

High-quality open source operating systems for your computer: Many.

High-quality open-source graphical toolkits for your favorite unix-style OS: GTK, QT, FLTK, Tk

Bindings for your favorite language to your favorite unix-style graphical toolkit: Complete and comprehensive across all toolkits

High-quality open-source Desktop Environments available for your favorite unix-style OS: KDE, Gnome

High-quality open-source Window Managers you may use with either Desktop Environment: At least sixty to choose from.

Cost of any of the prior products: Marginal amounts of time and effort.

Financial cost of any of the prior products: Nominal to none.

Number of developers on aforementioned products: Thousands.

Their sum and total total obligation to you: Jack Shit.

Reasons to complain non-constructively about ANYTHING: None.

Catches: You have to be mature enough to use and modify high-quality warranty-free cost-free open-source software constructively. Whining, baseless complaining, vague, criticism, and political pot-shots reflect poorly on you, your technical skill, and your penis size. (if applicable)

Re:because GNOME is L/GPL and KDE is not

[Arandir]

Troll Tech does not control what platforms Qt may run on. The QPL is Open Source and Free Software, period. If you want a Win32 version of Qt there is nothing stopping you from porting it over. Nothing. So if this is your only complaint, get off your butt and start porting.

This is the Free Software Community. We are soveriegn. We are not sheep or serfs that blindly follow the whims of the masters. Here, we do things for ourselves. We are the ones who make things happen. Nobody's going to hold your hand or wipe your nose anymore. If you see that the world needs changing, go out and change it. Otherwise go back to Master Bill and his software/welfare world.