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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."

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  1. Re:Looking forward with mixed feelings by GauteL · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Nautilus2 remembers window size now. It was just a bug, it has been fixed. RC2 includes the fix. I'm pretty sure RC1 did too, but anyhow..

    All the apps I use regularly, Galeon, Nautilus, gnome-terminal etc.. does remember window size.

    GNOME 2.0 has tried to decrease the amount of options. This is a Good Thing [tm], because it means that the options that are still there are useful, easy to find and intuitive.

    Metacity is NOT the default WM for GNOME 2.0, it is just an option. It will probably be the default WM some day, but it is still not completely ready for that.

    Swallowing other applets than GNOME-applets is hardly useful for anyone but a very few. It was a great source of bugs, and nobody really wanted to fix it. It was decided that unless someone really wanted it badly enough to fix it, then it would be dropped. Nobody wanted it badly enough.

    The strange thing is that the people that scream about lack of options, are mostly the same that scream about bloat. This is ironic because the huge amount of options it would take to satisfy everyone would lead to an extremely bloated interface both UI-wise, bugwise and probably also memory-wise.

    If someone wants an option or a feature this is the way to do it:
    - Open up a bug report in bugzilla, and argue carefully for your feature or option request.

    There are three issues that need to be addressed before they are accepted:
    1. Do they make sense? That is, are they sensible options or options that either fix something broken (in which case the brokeness should just be fixed instead).
    2. How useful is it, compared to the cost of increasing complexity both UI-wise and QA-wise?
    3. Does someone care enough to code it in?

    The swallowed applet was probably ok for point 1, a little on the edge for point 2, and definitely a miss for point 3. If someone does care enough to code, then state your interest on desktop-devel-list@gnome.org, and it might be in GNOME 2.2 or something like that.