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A User's First Look at GNOME 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the will-rankle-or-delight dept.

Gentu writes: "OSNews has just published a review of the Gnome 2.0 desktop environment and its verdict is not so positive. The author feels that the new version is limited in many ways and with a UI not well designed."

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  1. Re:Err... yeah, ok... by yatest5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm prepared to accept that the author of this article may not have English as her or his first language, but this sentence seems to display a lack discontinuity of thought that's not confidence-inspiring for the rest of the 'review' (or opinion piece as it seems to really be)...

    Hmm, sweet irony.

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  2. Re:Gnome and KDE are more or less the same these d by anpe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah! Lets be original, stop to copying Win32, copy MacOSX !

  3. Sade?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    The guy listens to Sade. How much can he really know about computers?

    He didn't even know enough to hide the Sade before taking the screenshot.

    1. Re:Sade?? by Salsaman · · Score: 3, Funny
      What do you mean ? Sade is *obviously* a big computer geek. What are her two most famous songs ?

      Smooth Operator (an obvious reference to overloaded operators in OO programming languages); and Diamond Life (obviously a reference to hardened carbon based nano machines).

  4. Re:Err, Well, mostly on topic by kigrwik · · Score: 3, Funny

    No problem here: my nautilus is gone, and everything is still accessible through the Applications menu.
    (it'll be back as soon as I apt-get it back, but I'm lazy :)

    Actually, Nautilus is a *pain* when used w/ transparent terminals, as each redraw of the icons will cause each terminal to redraw. Besides I don't like desktop icons anyway. What I miss in nautilus is:
    1. middle-click to open new windows
    2. split-screen for easy DnD
    3. Konqueror, that's what I miss, actually. :)

    But with nautilus gone, everything is quite snappy on my PIII450. Of course "everything" is a lot damn smaller now :).

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