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GNOME 2.0 Developer Platform Beta
ambrosius27 writes: "To quote from Jeff Waugh's announcement: "The API frozen Developer Platform Beta, 'Everyone's Excited and Confused', is ready for your porting pleasure!" You can find the full announcement on Gnotices. The GNOME developers have been hard at work. Feel free to download, create/port applications, and, most of all, send in nicely detailed bug reports!"
yes, Gtk 2 has AA already builtin (unlike the gdkxft hack for gtk 1.2) like the latest qt. check out this screenshot:
2 -w ith-launchers-1207.png
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/images/gnome
"I keep looking in the want-ads under 'revolutionary' but there don't seem to be any listings.. "
Well, this is a developer link, not for people who don't enjoy building it themselves, but here are some nice screenshots.
Even Slashdot wants to hide some things
"Pointless competition is only holding linux back."
Funny, because competition between GNOME and KDE is *EXACTLY* what has made both GNOME and KDE mature so much.
Why don't you send this message to gnome-devel-list or kde-devel-list?
I'm sure you'll hear a lot of things you don't expect (such as that the GNOME vs KDE war does not exist).
What's your problem? Not sure why you are so hostile over a simple question. And the fact that you insult him for not knowing you can do anti-aliasing is just stupid, seeing as gdkxft is an ugly ugly hack.
I should know, I use it myself, many programs such as gaim will often get a double-written type look where it looks like it is trying to render the font twice, usually when I type in the entry box so that it goes to the next line. It also breaks a lot of programs, like mozilla (unless you get the patch), gimp, probably lots of others too.
So to actually answer his question, instead of just being an ass for no reason, yes gnome 2.0 does support very nice anti-aliasing. Some people have said it actually looks better than the Xft stuff that gdkxft and qt use, but not sure if that's true.
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Ximian takes a stable Gnome release, and builds a product around it.
Assume that they will need a fair amount of time to wait for Gnome 2.0 to stabalize, and get there 2.0 version out. I would guese at least 3-4 months before some beta product is announced, and at least 6 months untill they switch over.
I think Gnome 2.0 will generate substantial interest in getting applications ported over. That's the real ticket.
Gnome 1.4 was released April 4th of this year. Ximian Gnome 1.4 was released April 24th. (Dates from Slashdot).
Since Ximian employes a lot of the main Gnome developers, they're probably working on their product as gnome is testing, so the release time shouldn't be that far off from the Gnome 2.0 release date.
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* (or RC 2 in case it is necessary)
Notice how the planned GNOME releases are closer together than the KDE releases. Is there any indication when GNOME 2.1 will be out? KDE usually takes 4/5 months between releases, so I expect KDE 3.1 in July, with a 3.1.1 bugfix release in August and of course a 3.0.1 bugfix release at the end of March of begin of April.
GNOME did not have as many recent releases as KDE has with the 2.x series (GNOME underwent the same large overhaul as KDE did during the transition to KDE2), so what kind of a release schedulet can we expect of GNOME after 2.0?
this is because nautilus is used to draw the desktop including the icons as well as used for the right click menu used for file management. Basically this is not a bug.