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Gnome 2.2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the dadburn-that-slippery-gnome dept.

heydrick writes "This message confirms that Gnome 2.2 is officially released. And a month ahead of the originally planned six-month release cycle. Check out the Gnome 2.2 Start Page and use a mirror to download."

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  1. Gnome 2.2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thanks to all the developers who have really put in to get this release out the door - it looks unreal!

    For those who have not already, check out the screenshots http://vhost.dulug.duke.edu/~louie/screenshots/2.2 /

  2. Re:Bitstream Fonts? by luge · · Score: 4, Informative

    The final license stuff is still being taken care of by the board. It's been a year in negotation; we didn't want to rush or hurry that just for one release.

    --

    IAAL,BIANLY

  3. Re:Startup notification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    No they are talking about xalf which had many problems. Startup notification is a freedesktop.org spec so KDE and Gnome apps should be using this, at least in the future. (I'm not sure how much KDE has jumped onboard freedesktop.org standards).

  4. Re:Startup notification by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Informative
    Does anyone know whether the KDE equivalent is a past attempt they are talking about?

    Yes. The KDE system was a good first attempt, but suffered from not having toolkit/desktop integration as well as it could have. If an app didn't support it, or crashed on startup, the throbber would hang indefinately. This system has toolkit/X integration, and is only activated for programs that flag themselves as supporting it, so it's more robust and useful.

  5. screenshots by jfeasel · · Score: 3, Informative

    here

  6. Use gconf-editor! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Tearoff menus have alwasy been in gnome2 (I think) but you have to use gconf-editor set enable.


    The key is:
    /desktop/gnome/inferface/menus_have_tearoffs


    Note that this will only effect gnome2 apps (I think). If your gnome1 apps have tearoff turned off you have to use the old gnome-cc to enable. Also, don't be afraid of gconf-editor, a good number of the so called "missing features" are still there!

  7. Re:File Dialog by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 4, Informative
    They should have taken this month to implement a better file dialog.

    Well, a new file dialog is planned for GTK2.4, and is developing in libegg CVS.

    Note a few things:

    1) GTK is a separate project from GNOME. That means, it's not simply something the gnome team have forgotten to get around to, it has to fit into the gtk feature cycle, it has to go through usability reviews, it has to be tested etc. New APIs will be needed probably. Then it has to be integrated with standardised mime typing and so on. There's a lot more work than you might think.

    2) For GNOME2.2, gtk2.2 was released in time, great, fab. That probably won't be the case for gtk2.4, for reasons I won't go into, but basically the release schedules just don't mesh. However, GTK2.4 is backwards compatable with 2.2, so when it does come out, you just drop it in - all the apps get the new dialog.