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GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 3 Released

Posted by michael on from the stomping-toward-destiny dept.

damiam writes "GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 3 has been released. Changes include new versions of Nautilus, Yelp, and the control center, as well as bugfixes all around. Download it from gnome.org or one of the mirrors." Jeff Waugh adds: "The possibility of a complete beer freeze at GUADEC has inspired another kickarse release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop. It's awesome stuff, definitely worth trying out. You should find GARNOME handy if there are no packages available for your distro."

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  1. Gnome as a Interface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just looking at Gnome (and KDE) you can tell linux is for developers...cause it sucks so bad. Does anybody have the guts to say that Gnome, from a desktop users' standpoint is total garbage and looks like an 8th grader designed it even without the chicken scratch fonts?

    There IS a reason why professional desktop designers make money designing for Apple (and Microsoft, even tho XP and its color scheme is horrid an unusable--even windows 95 is better than Gnome). It just goes to show, you get what you pay for, or don't pay for.

  2. Re:Fonts... by tempfile · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I fail to see how TrueType is a bad thing. If it weren't for Apple and MS pushing TrueType and releasing fonts for free, we would still be stuck with eight-bit encoded fonts that are not hinted at all.
    Even with all that patent bullshit, TrueType fonts render prettier and are less of a pain in the ass to handle.

  3. Nautilus progress by Ogerman · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Seems to me that Nautilus is roughly at the functionality level of old Konqueror 1.0. Any word on when serious progress is going to be made?