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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. 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.

  2. Gnome Logo by minkwe · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Isn't it time to change the GNOME Logo on Slashdot!


    http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/foot.png

    --
    "Fighting terrorists with millitary might is like killing a mosquitor on your Dad's forehead with a rifle."
  3. 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!

  4. Re:Honest comparison between Gnome and KDE? by Alan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In general, gnome2 is going for the "minimulistic, things just work" approach, while KDE is going the "ultra configurable, complete user control" approach.

    I'm not up on KDE that much, other than playing with (and quite enjoying so far) 3.1 in the last while, but gnome has been hacking off options and reducing the ability for the user to mess thing up, or reduce the amount of clutter the user has to deal with to get things done, depending on who you talk to :) There have been no end of flame wars within gnome itself about this (see the desktop-devel and galeon-devel list archives for lovely examples of these).

    Personally, well, like the other guy said, it really doesn't matter what I think, there are two different ways of getting things done, two different look and feels, and two different paths for you to try out and see if you like them :)

    (Of course there are more than 2, but that's not the issue here).