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GNOME 2.0 Beta

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Gnome or KDE? by ciryon · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is nice news. I am running KDE now and I believe that KDE 3.0 will be the ultimate *nix desktop. But perhaps this Gnome beta can prove me wrong.

    The anti aliased fonts, is that the gtk hack that came some months ago? It looked really ugly. :-P

    Ciryon

    1. Re:Gnome or KDE? by mrcparker · · Score: 3, Interesting

      This
      screenshot and this can be so cool if implemeted correctly.

      Any other screenshots along this line?

  2. This is really great by ColGraff · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've always thought that GNOME looked nicer than the windows or mac desktops (almost as nice as BeOS), and it's really cool to see that it's getting even prettier. To anyone who reads this who works on GNOME: thank you very much for working on this, and even more thanks for releasing it under the GPL.

    It's people like the ones who work on GNOME who are going to make Linux into the desktop OS it has the potential to be.

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  3. Accessibility: suddenly it's a priority... by gmkeegan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    new accessibility features for disabled users

    Having just broken both my wrists 2 weeks ago while snowboarding (right in 3 places, left in 2) this is suddenly of great interest. (took 10 minutes just to type this in :(

  4. Debian Packages? by evilned · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I see tar.gz and some RPM's but no .debs. Is there someone packaging them, or will I have to wait till march when it gets out of beta for it to be put in unstable?

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  5. GNOME vs KDE for the newbie by Glorat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know this dicussion can start the many flame wars so let me ask this from a personal perspective

    I am a relative Linux on the desktop newbie (although very comfortable deploying on servers) and still prefer the ease of use and performance of the Windows interface. One day, I installed Linux to try out and had a go at both KDE and GNOME (about a year ago) but didn't like it. Today, I sadly develop on Windows to be deployed on Linux

    I found KDE took ages to start up, GNOME was slightly better but Nautilus while featureful was horribly slow. Both were rather confusing with respect to my favourite shortcut keys and mouse commands (especially clipboards and window control) although I hear KDE has a "Windows emulation" mode it wasn't convincing

    So the things that are on my mind are:
    - Have the environments improved a lot in the past 12 months in terms of usability and performance and startup speed?
    - Is it getting much easier for the Windows user like me to get into?
    - What are the main goals that GNOME are trying to accomplish over their new releases? KDE?

    Otherwise, I guess I'll keep my "desktop environment" to nothing but an xterm console and only use Linux when I have to

    Thanks

  6. can it copy and paste between apps yet? by AugstWest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    honestly, that's just such a HUGE thing in a desktop environment.

    consistent keystrokes that can copy and paste between apps -- is that so much to ask?

  7. How about neither KDE or Gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you need something faster and more light weight then give FVWM95 a try, along with ROX Desktop.

  8. Re:could a port to windows be done? I've got it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ahem...
    http://line.sourceforge.net/

  9. Why dont they release in one big file by HanzoSan · · Score: 3, Interesting


    I hate having to download and install 23092039 diffrent files, ill never update gnome.

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  10. Re:MacOSX *is* the ultimate *nix desktop. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    >Too bad Steve Jobs is still obsessing about building the box. If he wasn't mentally ill, he'd release Mac OS for the intel platform and that would be the game. Done. El fin.

    AFAIK Apple still makes most of its money from selling hardware.

    I'd like to see OSX for Intel just as much as the next guy but imagine what would happen if Apple would stop 'obsessing about the box' and just concentrate on selling software.

    Can you say BeOS? Thought you could.

  11. Re:MacOSX *is* the ultimate *nix desktop. by fredrik70 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And what about software for the x86 version of OSX? Also, do you think MS would allow apple to go for the x86 market ad still produce Office for MacOS?
    Doubt Apple would like to go into direct confrontation with MS...
    Apple is also more of a hardware company than a software company, that's weere they make their money. Sure I would love to have MacOSX on my box home but I doubt it will ever happen unless I buy a mac... maybe in a year or so.. too much debts now!
    tada

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