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GNOME 2.0 Beta
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.
No, it's the proper, internationalized anti-aliasing that's been in the works for a while. For a good list of all the user-visible changes in Gnome 2, check out Havoc Pennington's "What's New in Gnome 2" page.
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try here
The main FTP site seems to be down, but at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/MIRRORS.html you can find a list of mirrors.
A few of them are:
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Gnome
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/
ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/gnome/
ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/GNOME
There have been previous slashdot articles on unique keyboards. I might investigate a Twiddler from HandKey corporation if I were you (if you can use your fingers freely, but you can't flex at the wrist).
Also, there was a reference to a keyboard that was two pucks that each moved in one of eight direction (64-possibilities) that you could use without fingers! If you can't flex fingers or your wrists, this keyboard might work for you, as it works largely on shoulder and elbow movements.
I'm trying to figure out what having broken wrists would mean. Do you have full use of your fingers, but you can't flex at your wrists? Do you just get to type with a couple fingers? How are you typing?
Also (of course), you could investigate voice recognition systems. Dragon Naturally Speaking (I think that's what it's called) has an entry-level system for about $100.
If any of these sound interesting to you, and you want help digging up further information on them, feel free to ask me. Just tell me which ones to look into for you.
Education is the silver bullet.
Add the following lines to your sources.list
And if you still don't have apt-get, then visit Freshrpms, download it, use it, and wonder how you ever got along without it.
PS - If any of you have the bandwidth to host a publically avaliable apt repository for Red Hat, then please post to the freshrpms mailing list and tell us all about it.
GTK+ 2.0 is supposedly going to run on Windows as seamlessly as it does on X, but you have to remember that a lot of GNOME and GNOME apps (ill-behavedly) use Xlib calls, making them unportable.
It doesn't use the new gnome hooks, but it's usable today.
Download ROX filer. and then replace the Bloatware called nautilus with ROX (to replace the desktop you need to run ROX as ROX -p=default)
This one change will increase the speed of Gnome by at least 300% no you dont get the nice-n-integrated everything that Nautilus is but you also lose the one thing that makes gnome slower than tar.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
You're right that GNOME1 applications don't work *on* GNOME2, but they do work *with* GNOME2, since the GNOME1 libraries are fully parallel installable with the GNOME2 libraries. In other words, you can have your new desktop environment, the applications that make use of the new and better libraries, and still use your favorite applications that haven't been ported yet. It's a beautiful world.
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I can't really comment on comparisons with KDE, as I'm not familiar with KDE's accessibility. However, accessibility has been a driving force in GNOME2 development. Sun, in particular, has been very active in this area. See, for example, their work on the Accessibility Toolkit (ATK) or the GNOME on-screen keyboard or the screen-magnifier (see here). You can find more about the GNOME Accessibility Project (GAP) here. All this is being designed for GNOME2; so, we'll see more of the implementation of the accessibility stuff with this release onward.
As for the question of who is using GNOME2, well, the developers are using it mostly -- which you might expect since GNOME2 beta just came out!
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I've never used KDE (I don't like the look of it - icons have too many colors...looks kind of gaudy but maybe that's configurable)
I'm a big fan of Ximian Gnome. Its much less clunky and more attractive than vanilla Gnome IMHO. I recommend it.
I also liked Windowmaker and Blackbox when I used them, they're much more lightweight than running a whole Gnome or KDE environment.
By default, konqueror is set up so that if you middle-click/paste anywhere in the main frame, it opens the url that was pasted. Its awesome.
1. highlight the url
2. click
3. read.
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I suppose I'm not too threatening, presently, but wait till I start Nautilus
Gnome 2 has a diferent API, or new version of several base libraries. You can still have the old versions of the libraries installed and you apps compiled to use GNOME 1.4 will work just fine, buit they will not use any of the new features. In that respect it is the same for win95 and win2K, the only diference is that some of the new dll in win2k has the same API so the old applications won't have to load an older version. This is works fine if your API will not change from one version to another (MS usualy changes APIs in a additive way, the new API has as a subset the old API). Linux apps usualy are open sourced so it tends to update the API more often, but allowing the old apps to compile to the new version.
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An xlib port to windows is already underway, and Donald Becker is doing it. See w11
"Is it reasonably stable or are they rushing it to fight KDE?"
Realeasing a beta can hardly be described as rushing software out. Besides, people who prefer KDE won't switch to GNOME just because some new version of it comes out before a new version of KDE. This is also true for people who prefer GNOME.
To run KDE you really need a current machine with a decent amount of RAM. I haven't run any tests so I can't say what exactly the system requirements are. But I can say that it runs plenty fast on my machine (Duron 700 w/128mb RAM). And yes, KDE has gotten awesome in the past 12 months.