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GNOME 2.0 Desktop Alpha
xer.xes writes: "The first public testing release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop, 'Rolig Liten Hattgubbe,' is ready for your testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download here. Please read the release notes first! Due for general consumption in March, the GNOME 2.0 Desktop is a greatly improved user environment for existing GNOME applications. Enhancements include anti-aliased text and first class internationalisation support, new accessibility features for disabled users, and many improvements throughout GNOME's highly regarded user interface."
I use GNOME for only what I have to... it was installed as the only window manager on the webserver that I administer before it came to me, and for what I use it for, it works just fine. I've heard stories from past coworkers that upgrading or replacing a window manager is quite complicated, and if not done exactly right can cause major problems.
I personally am of the opinion, that unless it concerns security or (used) functionality, don't fix it if it's not broken.
I guess I'll wait until the other folks here install 2.0 to see 1) what (if any) problems they had, and 2) was it really worth it.
There is something to be said for using software that is a bit older and has been around for a while. Just look at XP and all the holes they found in the first couple months. I doubt any new exploits will be found for my Windows 98 SE I'm running at home...
And they said zombies weren't real!
This is a good observation, and you are propably correct. However, it is still a bizarre name - long and very difficult (I suppose, but cannot tell for sure, since I am a Swede myself) - for non-Swedes. Why is this? Are there unproportionally many Swedes working on this? Are these people in love with the Swedish language? What is going on here?
This might seem seriously off topic, but I'm honestly quite interested.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
I quit using Gnome (1.4 IIRC?) since they added Nautilus. It's really pretty, but unbelievably and unusably slow on a 1.4GHz/DDR Athlon, 512M RAM, Mandrake 7.1. Oh yeah, GMC's MIME association editor is now broken, so I can't use it with any app it isn't already configured for. Does anyone know how to fix that? Or better yet, can anyone speed up Nautilus?
Will 2.0 fix this?
At a guess they're referring to this:
;-)
l Si te=http://www.kramgo.se/ansiktsburk&extName=Kramgo
http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/
It's a turkish song with parts of it that sounds like swedish, so someone had a bit of fun making a mock video for it and adding 'swedish' subtitles. Quite funny. (At least if you speak swedish.
(The same people also made this one:
http://www.lindqvist.com/externsajt.php?externa
)
Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon, Opera...
What's not to like about any of those? I especially like Galeon, as I use Gnome and I really like the tabbed browsing. Konq is also really good.
Mozilla is absolutely outstanding if you have a decent machine, 500MHZ (or thereabouts), and Opera is pretty good too.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
And as a side-note, it translates *almost* pefectly to the Norwegian phrase "Calm little hat-man"... :) See how much difference a little word can do.
Will we be able to run it on XFree86 4.2 by then? It'd be nice to make the upgrade a REALLY clean one.
Steve Bougerolle, steveb@pacific.net.hk, http://home.pacific.net.hk/~steveb
I assume you are trolling if you mention emacs and smooth user interface in the same breath (I am not that biased, I would say the same to you if you mentioned vi instead). Vi and emacs amy be industrial-strength code and text editors, but paring that with a smooth user interface just is not possible due to the complexity of the functions required of the software...
On to web browsers. I am writing this in Konqueror, so be aware of this bias. I think that there are several Really Annoying Things about Internet Explorer which detract not from the user experience of the product but rather the user experience of the internet itself. Konqueror 2.2.2 gets rid of all these, most notibly pop-up windows.
Wait, I am sure you will say-- who worries abotu pop-up windows when you are not surfing for Pr0n? If you ask that question, I will ask you which cave you have been living in for the past few years... Popups are everywhere and they really do detract from the general experience of the web. Right now, I am trying to decide whether to try to get my parents to switch from Mozilla to Konqueror...
Try it and you may find that it amazes you too!
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
it's that the entire fonts system on *nix machines is esoteric enough that all the fiddling with suitcases etc on the Mac (as of several years ago at least -- I really haven't played with the fonts on my iBook) is nothing in comparison.
:) It's nice that both KDE and GNOME now have antialiasing, but I really wish there was a single spot I could drag a downloaded font and know it would then be available to every application which uses fonts ...
:) Even if it could be used mostly to create ugly fonts, as long as the capability to creat new / better / improved ones existed, I bet a few nice ones would soon float to the top ...
The fonts available to AbiWord are not the same ones available to the GIMP, for instance, and I'm not sure -- though I haven't pursued -- how to change this. (KWord seems to find the same fonts as the GIMP, though.)
If I could earmark money toward a useability project for either or both (or any, depending on who's counting) of the Big Desktops, it would be a prettier / friendlier / easier font-control mechanism. Drag and drop, dammit!
The *next* thing I'd like to earmark money for is an easy to use and freely licensed font-creation tool
Perhaps there really is a nice free font-creation program under Linux / UNIX, I just don't know about it if so.
In short, I agree and then some!
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Here is why I use galeon
1. Galeon can be antialiased even if you do not have GNOME 2.0, see http://gdkxft.sf.net. Also see the screenshot http://users.starpower.net/shaji/galeon.jpg
2. You can disable popups windows.
3. You can disable banner ads. ( Block images from this site, try it on ads.doubleclick.net etc..)
4. Excellent full screen, you can configure what you want to see(menubar, toolbar etc.) in fullscreen. (Internet Explorer - it is time to learn from galeon.)
5. Faster start up, like mozilla quick launch on Windows. (Start galeon with "galeon -s", when you startup the window manager or gnome session. Galeon will now be launched faster than ever).
6. Cool search boxes can be added to your toolbar. Look at the above screenshot for "google" search and debian package search.
7. Can set up shockwave, real, java and pdf plugins.
8. SSL support.
9. Tabbed browsing.
10. Easily change short cut keys. Select the menu option with the mouse and press the desired key.
11. Excellent cookie, password and form management.
12. Autocompletion using TAB.
13. Last but not least, it is faster than light.
A non-technical annecdote like this would be a good excuse to get some press in one of the mainstream Swedish newspapers. It's short and non-techical enough to fit in the Metro ;)
Seriously, projects like Gnome could use some help getting into DN, SvD and the others. The IT notes and columns otherwise tend to run like digests of corporate press releases.