Slashdot Mirror
GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 3 Released
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."
You should make them - if you have the brains to compile software, you have the brains to package it. As well as not breaking your system, and ensuring a uninform install, uninstall / query process for all your software, your work is repeatable for other users and generally other distributions.
I'm pretty new to Linux (I've ran it since January as a primary OS.. before I had it installed but only dicked around with it once and awhile) and I've been trying to figure this out for awhile.
What are the main differences between Gnome and KDE?
I use KDE because it seems a lot more natural for me, with a lot more tools to change stuff around with. I go over to Gnome sometimes, and I wonder what difference there is between KDE and Gnome. They look the same, they have a similar 'feel'.. I personally don't see the difference.
(note; this is not a troll, this is something I am legitimately wondering about)
Anyone know if there are any themes allready ported to gtk2? the default theme does not look very .... impressive. Now if someone would have ported the xeno* theme engine to gtk2 ... hmmm ;)
:)
:) very cool !
Btw, what you can't see on the screenshots that some screen updates have been undergone a major overhaul in gtk2. For example take gtop, the process monitor. With gtk1.x it would flicker so much you can't use it. (Basicly the whole screen is redrawn each refresh, and u can watch the redraw
With gtk2 this is MUCH better, i guess due to double buffering. you only see the numbers change
I wrote the gnu make libraries that it uses, and the system is getting more and more robust as time goes on.
Of course, GAR is in itself a sort of packaging system, so the GARNOME tree is only as good as the dependencies it provides. You'll still have to install all of the other software.
GAR was designed originally with the idea that slackware users could just "make install" to upgrade to a newer tree of packages, but that was before I discovered that backing up your data and installing Debian was much quicker.
That said, GAR's main purpose is to build the complete filesystem tree for the LNX-BBC CD-ROM image. Ultimately we hope to have a complete GNU system packaged within it.
--
I noticed
It's getting about time to leave everywhere
Amazingly it looks just like gnome 1.4. This isn't flamebait but i still think gnome lacks the smoothness and grace of kde. This is coming from a former gnome user, one who after playing with mac os switched to kde, because at least its functional and looks good.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
The GNOME 2 version of Nautilus is a lot faster than the GNOME 1 version. The difference in speed is amazing, even on my Athlon 1,4 Ghz with 128 MB RAM.
Nautilus's is now almost as fast as Windows Explorer.
I expect more optimizations in the upcoming releases.
And no, Nautilus doesn't require Mozilla.
Only the Mozilla Bonobo component requires Mozilla, but you are not required to install that component and can use GtkHTML instead.
Mozilla has also become a lot faster the last few months, speed is more than acceptable on my computer, so I don't see what's the problem about depending on Mozilla.
Amazingly it looks just like gnome 1.4.
And we all know a windowing environment isn't "good" unless the look and feel changes with every release, right?