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Gnome 2.0 RC1

Posted by michael on from the fever-when-you-kiss-me-fever-when-you-hold-me-tight dept.

lurgyman writes "The GNOME Desktop 2.0 release candidate 1 has been released! It looks like it's finally on schedule for its projected June 21 release." The release notes have some good information.

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  1. GARNOME rules.... by reaper20 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Garnome part of GNOME is such an underrated program. Without it, I definately would not be using GNOME2 today, I'm not that much of a gearhead.

    Garnome makes it braindead easy to have a GNOME2 desktop ... it also does KDE(!) ... kudos to jeff and the other gnome hackers.

    1. Re:GARNOME rules.... by BlowCat · · Score: 3, Informative

      Google is your friend

  2. screenshots by jglow · · Score: 4, Informative

    here are some gnome 2.0 (beta) screenshots:

    http://www.gnomedesktop.com/scr/gdb3-1.jpg
    http://www.gnomedesktop.com/scr/gdb3-2.jpg
    http://www.gnomedesktop.com/scr/gdb3-3.jpg
    http://www.gnomedesktop.com/scr/gdb3-4.jpg
    http://www.gnomedesktop.com/scr/gdb3.jpg
    http://gnomedesktop.com/scr/limebubble.jpg
    http://gnomedesktop.com/scr/beta2-8.jpg

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    1. Re:screenshots by Tack · · Score: 5, Informative
      If you're looking for GNOME 2 screenshots that don't look like barf (and I agree, the ones posted here look hideous), then try these images from Jimmac's site:

      Jason.

    2. Re:screenshots by epukinsk · · Score: 5, Informative
      The following was posted on desktop-devel-list@gnome.org:
      From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
      To: GNOME Desktop Hackers
      Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0.0 Desktop Release Notes Contributions
      Date: 14 Jun 2002 12:37:21 +0100

      A sawfish known issue that people might pointout: viewports are
      ''gone''.
      Suggest adding the following to ~/.sawfishrc
      ;; Get viewports back
      (setq customize-command-classes '(default viewport))

      ;; (setq viewport-dimensions '(NUMBER_OF_COLS . NUMBER_OF_ROWS))
      (setq viewport-dimensions '(6 . 1)) ;; example
      Not only do GNOME developers know this is an issue, there are GNOME developers who want the functionality viewports offer to be a part of GNOME. I wouldn't be surprised to see there be a GConf key that enables viewports in 2.0.1, BUT...

      GNOME 2 developers can't listen to GNOME 2 users unless the users speak directly to them. File a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org. That's the best way to put this request on the developers' plate. And don't just say "RE-ENABLE VIEWPORTS," explain exactly what it is about viewports that you miss... is it that windows can straddle viewports? Is it navigation?

      It's my understanding (after lurking on the gnome lists for a while) that the intention is not to leave viewport users in the dust, but to try to allow viewport users to use workspaces in the same way they used to used viewports. I.e. put a checkbox somewhere that says "allow windows to straddle workspaces" etc.

      But this functionality won't be implemented unless the GNOME developers know people want it. So file a bug. File several bugs, one for each bit of functionality you miss that viewports had.

      -Erik
  3. Huh? by bogie · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know what distro you use, but as far as Redhat or Debian goes, they pretty much release whenever they feel the product is ready, not when a new desktop comes out. In fact ever time a new Redhat Desktop comes out, everyone whines "why are they realeasing now and not including X with it?". If your distro puts out a new release the day Gnome 2 comes out, I suggest you find a new distro.

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  4. Re:Screenshots? by sfraggle · · Score: 2, Informative

    I took another two screenshots:

    EoG and xbill

    The new terminal program, yelp (help system) and the sound recorder. You can see the anti aliasing support at work in the yelp window.

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  5. Some News For You by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you haven't already tried, gnome 2 and all packages are really sweet. If you are using gnome 1.4 definitely switch. I use a Pentium II 450 w/384mb of ram and gnome 2 flies. Even nautilus 2 is snappy on my old clunker. The windows move around much faster, programs load quicker and everything is really futuristic looking. You can really spruce up the desktop with nautilus themes such as those found on ximian's site. Definitely check it out, KDE is just plain ugly to me (it also feels blocky). Let me emphasize IT'S FAST!

    1. Re:Some News For You by CMonk · · Score: 2, Informative

      I did the upgrade some months ago when Ximian release their first snapshots. For the most part (having not used it in 3 weeks as I moved and have not yet got connected to the net at my new place yet) it's been a VERY positive experience. I've had no down time. Nautilus is actually functional and USEABLE. Gnome now starts up in between 2 and 5 seconds. Everything just seems a little bit "prettier". I haven't had any problems running the older gnome1 apps within gnome2 either. Give it a try, you'll like it.

  6. Re:time to ditch Microserf XP? by Fnord · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, warcraft 3 hasn't even been released yet but it works perfectly in WineX (or at least the betas did).

  7. more gnome 2 screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    here you can find some other screenshots of gnome 2, enjoy!
    screenshots

    pretty, isn't it? ;-)

    just in case you are wondering where those wallpapers come from, I guess some of them are from deskmod , or a similar site, but I could be wrong...

  8. Re:On schedule? by GauteL · · Score: 4, Informative

    The release candidate was postponed, the release team is still confident that the final release will be on time.

  9. Re:UI Features? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Informative
    While I realize this release wasnt supposed to 'look' much different, they still could have taken advantage of new eyecandy availible to x and gtk2. Even kde supports tranparent menus. Besides anti-aliased fonts and alpha blending in widgets, nothing else looks much different.

    Well like you said, this release is about under the hood changes, much like the difference between Windows 95 and 98 - a lot of good changes, but not really in the visuals department.

    2.) cool little features like drop shadows on the menus and windows, alpha blending and animations on mouse over widgets or icons, faded menus, transparency, etc....

    Drop shadows on menus will have to wait for real transparency, which doesn't rely on taking a screen grab of the underside (which is how current X transparency is implemented, it means once blended it'll get out of date). This doesn't exist in X yet, but will once Keith Packard has finished his transparency server. I wish I knew when this would be.

    Animations on mouse over widgets and icons is implemented in KDE3, so I dunno why GNOME doesn't have it either - guess it's just priorities. For faded menus, I guess you mean transparent menus, see above. In fact, that list basically comes down to "transparency". It's coming. Hold tight.

    Meanwhile, here is a shot of GNOME that actually looks good. And look - the terminal is transparent. Happy now?

  10. umm wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    war3 works perfect on winex, i have war3beta and play it all the time using opengl.

  11. gnome 2 is faster. by mr.e · · Score: 2, Informative

    Personally i found that kde2.x was generally slower than gnome 1.4, but if you used nautilus then that made gnome1.4 a bit slower than kde. Then i upgraded to redhat 7.3, kde3 feels far slower than kde2.x and gnome1.x, and gnome2 (from the ximian snapshots on redcarpet) is significantly faster than the previous versions of gnome (probably because nautilus2 is really fast) and any version of kde (especially kde3). This is most obvious on my slowest machine, a P2 266 where kde3 is basically unusable, but gnome2 feels pretty responsive - fast enough to use happily.

  12. Dude. by Anitelu · · Score: 2, Informative

    A bunch of recent GNOME2 packages are available right now (and have been for ages!) in unstable, and just about every new package makes it into experimental about as soon as it's released. Christian Marillat, Takuo Kitame et al kick all kinds of ass, and you do 'em disrespect by not checking your facts before mouthing off.