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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 mean really, I start playing with my kernel , slashdot posts a kernel story, earlier I was looking for this, about 4 hours later slashdot posts it, one of those days you wonder if youre living in the fricking Mtrix or something, what Am I becoming Slashdot Psycic ?
...If thats true cool, anyone run this enough to know if its stable enough (no more than 4 reboots in say 6 hours) to play with on my home console ? Is double buffering working yet ?
On to Gnome, my understanding was binary compatibility was BROKEN ? this didnt make sense (well a littl) but the top says Greater compatiblity
I am having a hell of a time finding feauture/staus lists on Gnomes site, but Im tired so that may be part of it, any suggestions, or works/dontwork lists out there someone could point me too ?
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........
Have you used Mozilla 0.9.7? I use it exclusively on my Win2K boxes because it is much, much faster than IE5.5SP2, or, god forbit, IE6...plus it looks better, IMHO.
Have you tried opera? No, its not open source, and the free version is ad ware, but I personally love their interface (pop up windows can't get out of control!) and the gestures are great! Small things, like the ability to turn off popup windows directly from the menu, are nice! Its really coming along!
"Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the most surely the one wasted." -Sebastian Roch Nicol
Note that the Galeon has allowed turning off popups forever, and the most recent development version has gesture support too.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Euphemism is right if you take the word "gnome" to be perjorative. You could also say it is the P.C. term for gnome ;-)
--Moo
KDE is very nice for people who migrate from Windows (or keep using Windows) because after installation it lets you choose a Windows-like theme and keybindings (without losing any of its functionality, of course). GNOME, OTOH, takes a while to get into, especially with sawfish as a WM, but can be set up in a Windows-like fashion, too -- so if you're planning to set something up for lots of end users it doesn't make much of a difference. Overall, I think KDE makes optimal use of existing Windows knowledge, whereas GNOME mostly requires you to learn from scratch -- if it's your first PC ;-) it will likely not make much of a difference.
Otherwise the differences are not so big. Konqueror is a nice browser, especially with anti-aliasing (which is not really satisfying on Linux, but that's not KDE's fault -- at least you can get ClearType-like subpixel antialiasing on LCDs, which is almost as good as Windows'), but apps are interoperable. The KDE task bar and GNOME task bar are similar, both support little applets, but those are not interoperable AFAIK. I found the GNOME taskbar somewhat more intuitive, but I'm not really happy with either one (yes, I try to submit bugs and suggestions, thank you).
As regards productivity, it should not really make much of a difference once you've gotten into it. GNOME may be the obvious choice on lower-end machines, although my university has some quite snappy low-end machines running KDE, so with tuning you can probably achieve a lot. Hopefully, KDE performance will improve over time. I think both GTK and Qt are versatile interface toolkits, of which Qt is, by default, more Windows-like, but you can probably create an almost exactly Windows-like look & feel with GTK as well. But I liked the KDE default settings a lot more.
Wow... someone who likes persian poetry? Which poet do you like best - Hafez, Rumi, Omar Khayam? I personally like Hafez and Rumi. Some of my Persian friends have introduced me to some of the more avant-garde/modern stuff as well. Pretty deep poetry, IMHO.
Cheers
Arg, tis I again, The Pirate! Yar, .. let me be relayin' to you a tale of grief and heartbreak, of which there is no equal!
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... So this Gnome be trying to talk all smooth like to my women. He be telling her he's never seen a women so obese, that he's never seen a woman with so much hair on her back, and yet none on her head. Yarg, those were to be me weddin vows! That thieving gnome had to be stopped! or killed! Arrrr.... preferably killed...
... ah to be young again.
Once, back when i was just a young pirate, i met a salty lass, a bit slovenly she was, but i could be seein' her heart was rich, and more importantly, so was her farther. Yarg! That be humor for all you ignorants readin'.
Well, I fell in love, its true, and so did she. Arg, many a night we'd fall asleep on the deck of me boat, laughin and talkin. I'd tickle her fat, and she'd tickle me beard... ah, those were the days
They were the days until this scurvy no good horse shit eating Gnome comes along! why yea, he sure do got odd lookin' feet, i'll give him that! but he was no pirate. Arrrgg
Arg, me current wife is bellowing for me to bring her fat sorry ass another keg of wine. I swear, if that hildebeast gets any bigger, i'll be able to slap a mast in her belly button and sale her fat ass to me cove! But don't worry you sorry , ugly, landlubbers I'll be back to finish me tale though! Yarrggg... and quite a tale it is. Full of things you probably have never experienced, love, lust, villany, betrayel, the touch of a woman upon your sac