GNOME 2.0 Beta

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Posted by michael on Thursday February 21, 2002 @08:10AM from the size-13-wide dept.

xer.xes writes: "The first public beta release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop 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." LinuxToday or gnome-announce have the announcement. I don't see release notes anywhere - post a link in the comments if you find them. GNOME is having a bug day today.

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Re:Accessibility: suddenly it's a priority... by JanneM · 2002-02-21 08:20 · Score: 2, Funny

And they claim doing sports is good for you...

/Janne

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Re:could a port to windows be done? by pe1rxq · 2002-02-21 08:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Sure, its called linux. It replaces windows' shell completly!

Jeroen

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Re:Accessibility: suddenly it's a priority... by l0wland · 2002-02-21 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny

There's 6 minutes between the original posting and your reply. How in earth's name did you do that in 10 minutes ?

:-)

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Re:GNOME vs KDE for the newbie by pthisis · 2002-02-21 08:53 · Score: 5, Funny

you also lose the one thing that makes gnome slower than tar

Actually, tar is pretty fast--it's bzip2 that makes it seem slow. Try gzip or lzop instead, or don't compress if you are storing compressed files--though maybe cpio is somewhat faster than tar.

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

Sumner

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Re:can it copy and paste between apps yet? by Waffle+Iron · 2002-02-21 09:13 · Score: 5, Funny

consistent keystrokes that can copy and paste between apps -- is that so much to ask?
Dude, that would be, like, taking freedom of choice away from the people. Every application needs to be free to negotiate data transfer with other apps as it sees fit.
What if an application knows that it handles data better than anyone else? Why should it give up its data to some inferior process? Why should it accept data from some flawed source? Remember, it's Garbage In, Garbage Out. Apps need to be able to protect themselves from other people's garbage.
Re:could a port to windows be done? I've got it! by Havokmon · 2002-02-21 09:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Hmmm...
We could start a project to map xlib calls to corresponding Windows API calls.. But we'd have to name it using a recursive acronym..
I've got it!
LINE - Line is not an emulator!!

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Re:oh, dear by mini+me · 2002-02-21 09:35 · Score: 3, Funny

I just saw it as well, great ad!

It says:
This is a box. -- the ad is inside a border (a box)

Then it says:
You may think outside of it. -- And what is outside of the box? Well the Slashdot page is.

MS might want to rethink that ad.
Re:Accessibility: suddenly it's a priority... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-21 18:25 · Score: 2, Funny

When you're forced to type with your penis, times seems to move quicker.