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."

Comments

The name of the release

[Nachtfalke]

This release is codenamed "La lluvia en Sevilla es una maravilla", which babelfish translates to "Rain in Seville is a wonder". Any spanish speakers here that can tell us, what it really means? :-)

Re:The name of the release

[changos]

The rain in Seville it's wonderfull. Although maravilla can also be interpreted as "a sight to see"

GARNOME . . .

[uberjon]

GARNOME seems like a pretty sweet deal, should give people running less mainstream versions of linux or other *n*x's a chance to run Gnome. Has anyone tried this, i'm interested in the results, very interested.

Re:GARNOME . . .

[reaper20]

I just finished getting the GARNOME package and installing it this morning.

I did this on Debian unstable, so ymmv depending on your distro. I apt-getted the necessary packages as listed on the garnome page. (Forgot to get flex, but someone pointed that out to me on the irc channel).

There was a small bug in .8.5, but .8.6 is on the ftp site now. I wasn't timing it, but my guess is that it took about 2.5 hours on my 800 Tbird w/384MB RAM.

After I got the tarball, I just did a "make install" and it installed the gnome2 distro right in my home directory. I haven't used anything with GAR before, but this package is definately a welcome addition to my box.

Gnome2 impressions - Nautilus is f*cking FAST. Real fast. As in, I will finally use it. Kudos to the hackers that improved this thing.

The fonts - very nice, look good. It even used my ms ttf fonts that I had previously installed. I don't know if that was intentional or something that "just happened".

The bad - not too many apps ported yet, but I'm sure that will change.

I usually wait for packages for major things like desktops and the such, but garnome really really makes it easy. The guys in #garnome on irc.gnome.org are really helpful too.

Re:question

[cuyler]

...oh, and don't forget Enlightenment.
but some of us just son't have the horsepower to run it ;)

I'm impressed that people are still saying that. I remember having a usable Enlightenment enviroment working on a P150. Not all the features were turned though (okay, most of them weren't). I moved from that up to a K6-2 350 and Enlightenment ran just fine on it (not as fast as KDE though but much prettier).

Enlightenment is one of my favourite window managers it's really unfortunate that it hasn't made any progress for a long time (can't wait for 17.0 though).

Obligatory Apple comment: I really must admit my all time favourite UI is Aqua.

Re:Fonts...

[deadmeat]

Take a look at this screenshot and compare it to your Aqua desktop again :)

Re:question

[damiam]

Maybe you're right about GNOME being faster. I just look at Nautilus and then at Konqueror and there's really no contest(although Nautilus for GNOME 2 is blazing fast compared to GNOME 1.4). As for the apps (IMHO):

Evolution and Sylpheed > KMail
Abiword > KWord
Gnumeric > KSpread
KDevelop > Anjuta

GNOME 3, KDE 1.

Re:Screenshots!

[Skeezix]

Some recent shots of beta3 I made:

http://www.gnome.org/~jamin/screenshots/beta3/