Gnome 2.0 RC1

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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Release Notes for /.

[FireChipmunk]

GNOME 2.0 Desktop Release Candidate 1: "Fever Pitch"

The GNOME 2.0 Desktop Release Candidate 1, "Fever Pitch", is ready for your
bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download
here:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases / nome-2.0-desktop-rc1/

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.

Progress

The following tarballs have been updated since last week's snapshot release:

at-spi, eel, eog, esound, gail, GConf, gdm, gedit2, gnome-applets,
gnome-desktop, gnome-games, gnome-media, gnome-mime-data, gnome-panel,
gnome-session, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-terminal, gnome-utils,
gnome-vfs, libgail-gnome, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, libgnomeui, libgtop,
librep, libwnck, libzvt, nautilus, rep-gtk, sawfish, yelp

Testing the GNOME 2.0 Desktop

Binary packages and build scripts have been contributed to make installation
and testing of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop simpler.

Debian:

The following sources.list line will allow you to install the latest
experimental packages. Please see the debian-gtk-gnome list for more
information about these releases.

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimenta l main

GARNOME: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/

GARNOME downloads and builds from released tarballs. It includes a
number of ported applications and utilities, and is designed to be a
distribution of GNOME rather than an updater.

jhbuild: http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/jhbuild/README

jhbuild builds directly from CVS, and includes required developer tools.
It handles dependencies and errors gracefully, to minimise build time
and frustration.

vicious-build-scripts: http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/vicious-build-scri pts/README

v-b-s builds directly from CVS, and includes required developer tools
such as autoconf, gettext, etc.

Ximian Red Carpet Snapshots: (See the GMOME2 Snapshots Channel in Red Carpet.)

Binary packages for Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3 are available from Ximian's Red
Carpet. These are built nightly from CVS snapshots.

Build Requirements

- The tarballs included in the release. :-)

- Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as
image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be included with or
available for your distribution.

- Python 2 with expat xml modules for libglade (some modules still require
the libglade-convert script, however we do plan to ship glade2 files).

- Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue
file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop
components for documentation).

- You need recent GNOME 1.4 developer platform packages if you plan to
install the GNOME 2.0 platform libraries alongside 1.4.

A dependency graph for the developer platform and desktop release is
available on the dot.plan website:

http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/notes/

Testers

If you have incredible talents at breaking GNOME, perhaps even to rival
Telsa's infamous path of destruction (and excellent bug reporting of said
path), this release is made for you!

When reporting bugs, use http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ or bug-buddy. Make sure
you choose the correct version number, as reports against particular
versions are easier to triage reports against unspecified releases.

Before submitting a bug report, try running the software from your terminal
to see if it provides extra information, and please make sure that you build
everything with full debugging support.

Bug Squad

Whether you're testing GNOME 2.0 or not, you can still help out with the bug
busting efforts by triaging and tracking bugs in bugzilla. Join the bugsquad
mailing list, and hang out on #bugs (on irc.gnome.org) to get involved -
Thursday is always bug-busting day!

http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsq uad/

For help with bugzilla accounts, email bugmaster@gnome.org.

Distributors

This release is not intended for inclusion in distributions. However, binary
packages for bleeding edge testers on your platform are very welcome. Please
email the release team if you have built
packages for your platform.

Hackers

When reporting bugs is simply not enough, and you'd prefer to make your own
(or, indeed, fix the ones you find), this release is also made for you!
Have a look through bugzilla or the TODO file included with many modules,
and make sure to send your patches to the maintainers via the appropriate
mailing list, or bugzilla.

Happy testing!

- The GNOME 2.0 Release Team

Screenshots?

[IronTek]

Does anyone have any screenshots they can post (of this release, not the older v2 test releases)?

Thanks!

Language supported

[sebol]

What language supported in gnome2?

here is the list


http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/g no me-2.0-core/