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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."
"Rolig Liten Hattgubbe" and "Lagom". There is a lot of Swedish on Slashdot these days! "Rolig Liten Hattgubbe" means "Funny Little Hat Guy". Who is the Funny Little Hat Guy?
- El riesgo siempre vive - Private J. Vasquez
I'm too much of a pansy to disturb my prefectly configured Debian system, so can someone else install this and post screenshots?
The name "rolig liten hattgubbe" is Swedish, it means "Funny little hat guy." It seems /. is getting more and more infested with Swedish and Sweden every day. What's going on here? An invasion?
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
...are available here
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/
mmmmmmmm pretty.
There are 01 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and me.
[Desktop Environment] Posted by Jeff Waugh on Thursday January 17, @01:56PM
s /gnome-2.0-desktop-alpha/). Please read the release notes in the body of this article.
:-)
from the brought-to-you-by-tsing-tao dept.
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 (ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/release
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.
Build Requirements
* The tarballs included in the release.
* Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as image libraries, freetype and mozilla. These should all be included with or available for your distribution.
* autoconf 2.52, automake 1.4-p4, libtool 1.4.2, pkgconfig 0.8.0
* If you are installing GNOME 2.0 alongside 1.4, you *need* recent GNOME 1.4 library / developer platform packages.
A dia format dependency graph for the developer platform and desktop release is available on the dot.plan website.
Testers
If you have incredible talents at breaking GNOME, perhaps even to rival Telsa's infamous path of destruction (and excellent bug reporting of said path), this alpha release is made for you!
When reporting bugs, use bugzilla.gnome.org or bug-buddy. Make sure you choose the correct version number, as reports against versions included with the alpha will be given higher priority than reports against unspecified releases.
Note that by default, the software is built with debugging turned on, and most programs spit plenty of output to your terminal as they run. This means that whilst programs may run somewhat slower, the information supplied with bug reports will be far more helpful to the maintainers. Before submitting a bug report, try running the software from your terminal to see if it provides extra information.
We'll answer this one before it becomes a FAQ: If you want to test anti-aliasing, you need to set the GDK_USE_XFT environment variable, eg: export GDK_USE_XFT=1
Bug Squad
Whether you're testing GNOME 2.0 or not, you can still help out with the bug busting efforts by triaging and tracking bugs in bugzilla. Join the bugsquad mailing list, and hang out on #bugs (on irc.gnome.org) to get involved.
For help with bugzilla accounts, email bugmaster@gnome.org.
Distributors
This release is not intended for inclusion in distributions. However, binary packages for bleeding edge testers on your platform are very welcome. Please email the release team if you have built packages for your platform.
Hackers
When reporting bugs is simply not enough, and you'd prefer to make your own (or, indeed, fix the ones you find), this release is also made for you! The best places to send your patches are to the module maintainers, bugzilla or the relevant mailing list.
Most modules include a TODO list file, and you can find a lengthy release wide todo list on the dot.plan site (this will migrate over to bugzilla soon). The modules most in need of attention are nautilus, gnome-media, and sawfish.
Happy testing!
- The GNOME 2.0 Release Team
You want screenshots? Screenshots being served for you, sir!
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/
xer.xes -- 4181
Here are some screenshots of the Gnome 2 desktop
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/