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Gnome 2.0 RC2 Asks For Abuse

Posted by timothy on from the or-forever-hold-your-peace dept.

A nameless reader submits: "The GNOME Desktop 2.0 release candidate 2 has been released! Gnome 2.0 should be coming out soon! The release notes have some good information."

4 of 214 comments (clear)

  1. RC code name by joeykiller · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who don't understand swedish too well: This release's code name, "Glad Midsommar", means "Happy midsummer". The swedes love a good mid summer party.

  2. Garnome by Spock+the+Vulcan · · Score: 5, Informative

    As always, if you want to give the latest Gnome a whirl without messing up your existing system, try Garnome
    It takes a while to build (about an hour on my 1.0 GHz PIII), but it doesn't touch your existing install - everything goes into ~/garnome.

  3. Re:Does anyone know... by Ami+Ganguli · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't have any inside information, but if you look here you can see that they've added an unscheduled release candidate and they had planned two weeks between the last release candidate and going gold.

    Assuming we don't get another release candidate (which I think is a good bet - I'm running the nightlies and they feel solid) that places 2.0 around July 7.

    --
    It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Abraham Maslow
  4. How to enable anti-aliasing? by JamesHenstridge · · Score: 5, Informative

    First of all, you must enable Xft support (the new font system for X). This is done by defining the GDK_USE_XFT environment variable before running a program. The best way to turn this on for the entire desktop is by defining it in the X startup script (probably ~/.gnomerc, ~/.Xclients or ~/.xinitrc):

    #!/bin/bash
    export GDK_USE_XFT=1
    # set up $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH if needed
    exec gnome-session

    After doing this, you may still not see antialiased fonts. For instance, on Red Hat systems, the default /etc/X11/XftConfig file has the following lines:

    match
    any size < 14
    any size > 8
    edit antialias=false;

    which turns off antialiasing for fonts with sizes between 8 and 14. By commenting out these lines, AA will be enabled for all fonts. If you have an LCD panel, add a line like the following to /etx/X11/XftConfig or ~/.xftconfig:

    match edit rgba=rgb;

    This will turn on ClearType style subpixel antialiasing.