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.

Comments

michael!

[Jucius Maximus]

I never knew you felt that way about Gnomes.

Re:Gnome hasn't surrendered yet?

[ASyndicate]

I whole heartedly agree, GNOME looks just horrible. The widgets dont go together, there are 100 dependencies... wtf.

KDE is the future, indeed.

Re:screenshots

[phantomlord]

But unfortunately during the discussion of the bug report, it became apparent that the developers really didn't care about this. It bothered me because one thing was being said on the public lists, while something rather contrary was being said in bugzilla.

If you look at the thread I started entitled "Viewports and gnome 2" in the desktop-devel archives, you'll see that not only were developers not really interested in doing anything about it, they were downright belligerant to anyone who questioned what they did... to the point where in trying to discuss the problem, I wasn't allowed to call viewports "viewports". I specifically pointed out at length what I found to be deficient about having only workspaces in gnome2 and I kept being told to tell them what I thought the deficiencies were as if they just gave me a kneejerk reaction instead of reading what I wrote. The gnome2 developers really turned me sour on the whole project and I could really care less about the future of gnome2 now. I'll use gnome1 until something better comes along.