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GNOME 2.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the stomping-its-way-to-glory dept.

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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  1. the feature I want by tps12 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Situation: I am browsing the web in Galeon, editting an image in Gimp, or doing something else in some Gnome application.

    Now, I decide to save a document. I go to the File menu and select Save..., and am presented with the familiar "save" dialog. The default or current filename is in the text box at the bottom, and the directory navigation boxes are above.

    Suppose further that I want to now save the file in a different directory. So I select a new directory, and the filename disappears.

    Has this been fixed in 2.0?

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  2. Gnome 2 vs KDE 3 by OmniVector · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What advantages does gnome have? Why would i go with it over KDE 3?
    Just a question, not for the sake of argument. i'm a linux desktop newbie.

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  3. Some questions by unformed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been kinda following the Gnome2 prereleases, and it's nice. Glad to hear about the save dialog bugfix.

    But some others:
    1) The old volume control applet was way nicer than the current one, any possibility of it coming back?
    2) I know the Gnome2 applet API is not backwards compatible to the old one. How hard would it be to port a Gnome1 applet to a Gnome2 applet, and when will some docs appear? (Specifically looking into porting the Gaim applet, and some others I can't use anymore)

    I think that's it for now...

    besides that, good f*g job!

  4. Icons by MConlon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I watch the thrashing that goes on on kde-artist everytime somebody makes an icon that looks similar to OSX (normally) or Windows.

    The "home" icon in Gnome takes liberties on OSX, as does the terminal, and the process viewer. Hell, one of the screenshots features a straight rip-off of the OSX "Internet" globe.

    I'm a little puzzled.

    MJC

  5. I feel proud... by dalutong · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The guy who's porting SC2 to linux is my buddy chris nelson. I feel especially cool because i'm the one who installed debian unstable on his laptop (toshiba something or other -- stupid not-quite-eepro100 NICs...) and got him into SDL (that took A LOT of pushing)

    he was already a brilliant OpenGL programmer (luminescent is his handle on sf.net... he has some cool stuff there) but only delt with windows.

    so.. if you like SC2 for linux... thank him, but thank me for getting him into linux too :)

    (oh. to his credit.. he only started using linux and SDL a year ago... and loved enlightenment so much that he's stuck to it.. hehe)

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