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Looking Ahead at GNOME 2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the one-for-the-hackers dept.

Able writes "This is a good article that will teach you how to use the new and improved libraries available with GNOME 2 so that you can write your own Nautilus view, and panel applets. It also provides you with the understanding to compile a few sample GTK+ 2 programs that will give you a good understanding of GTK+ 2's many improvements over GTK+ 1."

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  1. Re:But one thing to say by cscx · · Score: 0, Troll

    While they are working on basic AntiAliasing, you should try out ClearType. It improves font quality up to 800% on LCD screens. The antialiasing level is also adjustable... One caveat: you need WinXP to run it...

  2. maybe GTK is not the correct choice for the future by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 0, Troll

    GTK widgets are pretty, sure, but i don't see how they've improved the usefulness of the X Window System any. i can't think of any way in which GTK has enriched the X experience beyond Athena or Motif widgets. does X really need 1000 faces?

  3. Hmm by Have+Blue · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can we please finish Gnome 1 before moving on to Gnome 2?

  4. Oh Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Joy, Gnome 2 and Bonobo... quick everyone rewrite everything to the new component model...

    Then rewrite everything again when Mono is ready...

    I love Gnome so much...

  5. GNOME is unorganized by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Troll

    GNOME team is out of focus. Its development is very very slow. Not much stuff has changed. The differences will be very few.

    Like said in a post, it's too little to consider a 10 years work. GNOME is always difficult to install from source. Hundreds of dependencies and packages.

    Would be better if they did arrange the packaging in a better way:

    gnome2-gui.tar.bz2 (4MB)
    gnome2-extra.tar.bz2 (4MB)
    gnome2-libs.tar.bz2 (5MB)
    gnome2-core.tar.bz2 (9MB)
    gnome2-applications.tar.bz2 (9MB)
    gnome2-addons.tar.bz2 (3MB)

    Hmmm... Looks much more organized. Lots of packages merged into "gui" like gtk+, glib, pango, etc.

    In "extra" we have the stuff like esound, audiofile, etc.

    And so on... forget the hassle to download all the 60 tarballs. Just download one single tarball, untar/ungzip it and start compiling!

    But yet, GNOME as it is, is unorganized for real.

  6. Pathetic by njdj · · Score: 1, Troll

    As a developer, I found the article sad. It's like going back at least 5 years, to the days when people used to use C. Somebody ought to tell these guys that the rest of the world has migrated to C++.