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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. 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.