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GNOME 2.0 Released
MAXOMENOS writes "The GNOME team has announced the release of GNOME 2.0. You can get more information about the GNOME 2.0 system here." Congratulations to everyone involved. Use the mirrors...
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For the lazy, here are the Screenshots.
Great work to everyone who helped with this. Gnome2 is amazing.
--Ben
Thank god :)
IAAL,BIANLY
Gnome2, Mozilla 1.0, Neverwinter Nights..... Damn cold in hell, is amazon turning a profit?
Duke Nukem Forever and Doom 3 just need to come out, and as a nice touch it would be cool if Star Control 2 would be re-released for Linux, Mac, and windows.... oh wait it is, hell is damn cold.
Now time to watch my karma go down the drain, but at least this time I was *less* offtopic.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Incause some people out there are running the "experimental" metacity WM, here is configuration tool I wrote that is much nicer to use than the command line.
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http://plastercast.tzo.com/~plastercast/Project
Personally I think the biggest advantage to GNOME is that you can choose your window manager. Now to a Linux newbie that may not mean much, but for someone who has been using Linux for a little while that can be a very nice feature. KDE is great and it's probably best for someone with a Windows background just starting with Linux. KDE is more of an "all-in-one" package. This means a consistant look and feel. GNOME is more component oriented. I can take out one part of GNOME (like the window manager) and replace it with another. That feature adds some complexity and also the feel that some of the applications don't always belong together, but the flexibility is really nice. You can get all the advantages of a desktop, but run a light-weight windows manager that is specifically tuned for your needs.
At least that's my $0.02
Who said Freedom was Fair?
How about this one, from a long time KDE supporter?
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
that's odd
I use kde2 stuff all the time and I use enlightenment
konqueror works just fine
is kde3 different in this respect?
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Perhaps I'm just missing some things, but I can't find:
1) The window manager switcher (I don't want Sawfish)
2) A lot of the cool panel applets from 1.4 (clock)
3) A way to save a session and have it remember window positions (it'll start programs that were "saved", but they all default to the middle of the desktop)
Can anyone fill me in? Thanks.
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This question will always be a matter of personal preference, and the ultimate answer is, "Install them both and see which one you like best!"
;-)
:-)
;-) The tradeoff is that you might not like the default that's been picked, but I've really found that I haven't missed anything so far. There are a few features I'd like to see (re)added, like the system tray, but that's coming very soon in a future release.
But you've heard that already, and it's not what you were looking for.
What you really wanted was Gnome's advantages over KDE. For me, it comes down to a few things...
1) Seems speedier on my 400mhz workstation. This is subjective, but I think it's pretty apparent. YMMV! On faster machines, this is less of an issue, but I don't have a faster machine, so it is a big deal to me.
2) Application "consistency": I personally find Galeon, Evo, and Gnumeric superior to Konquoror, KMail, and Koffice's spreadsheet, so having those former apps match my desktop is nice. While you can run Gnome/GTK apps in KDE, and vice-versa, having your themes between your desktop and Galeon, Evolution, Gnumeric, etc, is really cool.
3) This is the real kicker for me: Gnome 2 is, IMHO, much easier to configure and work with, and is far more intuitive. One of the Gnome 2 philosophies is that things should "just work", and use intelligent default settings wherever possible, instead of offering "6 equally broken ways to do it, and let[ing] the user pick one."* This means that while Gnome is still configurable, you don't have to wade through a nearly endless sea of preference options just to find that one button you were looking for. *cough*Kontrol center*cough*
* thanks to Havoc Pennington for the great quote.
Once again, though, the only way to decide is to try for yourself.
Happy GNOMEing!
The Free desktop that Just Works
Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3 seem fine on recent machines with enough memory. (Howz that for vague?) But we have a lab with a bunch of 5 year old machines and 32 mb or ram. We *have* to use icewm on them. It is possible to get gnome running on them but kde just plain won't run on them.
If you've got a recent machine there isn't much difference between the two, except that kde has some different features which are kind of nice. If you do not have a big machine then gnome is much nicer to work on. If you've got an old beater, then your best bet is icewm.
If it weren't for ice we would not have a back door for installing linux. Our argument to the money holders is that linux lets us use older machines and still be efficient. We can't do that with these "modern" window managers. The code bloat has just plain gotten out of hand. Thank goodness for ice! It allows us to sneak linux in the back door which then permeates the system!
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Personally I think the biggest advantage to GNOME is that you can choose your window manager.
FUD, FUD, FUD, no go away!
GNOME will use any window manager, but prefers those that are GNOME compliant. KDE will use any window manager, but prefers those that are GNOME compliant. The fact that KDE ships with its own window manager is about as irrelevant as the fact that GNOME does as well.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
Hi mr_marbles,
.0 releases are for updates to the developer platform which is what 2.0 is all about. So the underlying infrastructure and API has been much improved.
Much of the immediate effort will be on the quick release 2.0.1 and 2.2.0 (I guess).
The
The next effort is to take advantage of the developer platform, which will be with us for a few years, to implement more features that users want. So you should see more application development and porting over the coming months.
Even better, you can help GNOME add the features you want. By making feature requests, tracking down bugs and spending a little time on the project a massive impact can be made. If you'd like to help trip over to developer.gnome.org to find out more!
Steve
Hi,
.0 launch is means that this is an upgrade to the developer platform. This effectively covers the underlying libraries and core setup such as the panel. The idea is that new technology will support the user visible development for years to come.
You're absolutely right!
This release is a
Originally it was thought there would be very few user visible changes but you can't keep a good Free Software developer down and there are actually loads of improvements! I think if you give GNOME 2.0 a go you will see that there are lots of usability improvements - new clearer icons, better dialogs, more straightforward configuration and more.
The future for GNOME is 2.0.1 and then 2.2.0. These are reserved for application porting and user visible improvements. So you should see lots more goodies in the future.
If you have a moment do give 2.0 a try out - particularly after your distribution has caught up, or use ximian GNOME (www.ximian.com). I think you'll find that the reality is even better than the new reports!
Good Luck,
Steve
Hi,
.0 release my guess is that they will take a while to do lots of user and stability testing so that you get the most polished version possible.
;-)
GNOME 2.0 - the new release does support AntiAliased fonts. When you get the new platform running you need to add this to your environment:
export GDK_USE_XFT=1
There is also a capplet I believe.
Ximian (www.ximian.com) will make a user release of GNOME 2.0 I am sure. Though as this is a
As you will see the new platform is a big step forward making applications like Nautilus faster and use less memory - that's got to be a good thing for a new version to use less resources
Thanks,
Steve
Heh. It's right in the screenshot's filename. Rhythmbox. Do a Google search for it. (Apparently, though, it is going to become less iTunes-like -- hopefully for the better.)
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three persons, two of them absent.
Checket out, it makes installing/testing Gnome 2.0 very easy and will not affect your Gnome 1.4 installation (it installs to ~/garnome/)
Berto