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michael
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JanneM writes "Gnome 2.4 is arriving early september. Sayamindu Dasgupta has installed the 2.3.5 development release to see what's in store, and has written a very nice overview of the upcoming release."Update: 08/14 16:06 GMT by M: The author has provided a mirror.
7 comments and already slashdotted. They must be running some new Gnome 2.4 based version of Apache...
"To compete better against Microsoft IIS, we've decided to make a version of Apache, which is completely GUI-based and requires at least Gnome 2.4 to run"
-- “Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
GNOME development is slightly disappointing. It's lagging really far behind KDE in terms of eye candy. Although, I must say that gnome seems to be much more consistent than KDE and much easier to use.
Re:why are they bothering
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dash2
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People just want a computer that works, they don't spend hours masturbating over how many settings they can change. But apparently, to you, that makes them dummies. I suppose you think you're Einstein because you can use a gradient in your wallpaper or something.
Re:Nautilus?
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TheRaven64
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Here's another one:
Lack of a rootless mode
I run a gnome desktop on a remote machine, posted back to a rootless X server. I would like nautilus to not use the root window, since then it does not have to be displayed. I can killall nautilus, and then it will go away, however whenever I run the nautilus again it respawns in the root window.
Re: Gnome 2.3/2.4
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fault0
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> Actually they're all on the wrong frikkin' side, which is very annoying if you run traditional applications as well as GNOME2 applications, or even for your GNOME applications when you first upgrade. IMO that gratuitous change was a very poor HIG decision.
Completely agreed. I wish there was a way to put them into the normal side.
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7 comments and already slashdotted. They must be running some new Gnome 2.4 based version of Apache...
"To compete better against Microsoft IIS, we've decided to make a version of Apache, which is completely GUI-based and requires at least Gnome 2.4 to run"
“Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
GNOME development is slightly disappointing. It's lagging really far behind KDE in terms of eye candy. Although, I must say that gnome seems to be much more consistent than KDE and much easier to use.
You do realize that the _desktop_ is controlled by Nautilus, and thus you really can't close it without killing it, right?
nautilus can be run with the --no-desktop option to lighten it up a little bit. it makes it usable with fluxbox on a dual ppro 200 for me.
Have you tried rox-filer.
People just want a computer that works, they don't spend hours masturbating over how many settings they can change. But apparently, to you, that makes them dummies. I suppose you think you're Einstein because you can use a gradient in your wallpaper or something.
Lack of a rootless mode
I run a gnome desktop on a remote machine, posted back to a rootless X server. I would like nautilus to not use the root window, since then it does not have to be displayed. I can killall nautilus, and then it will go away, however whenever I run the nautilus again it respawns in the root window.
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> Actually they're all on the wrong frikkin' side, which is very annoying if you run traditional applications as well as GNOME2 applications, or even for your GNOME applications when you first upgrade. IMO that gratuitous change was a very poor HIG decision.
Completely agreed. I wish there was a way to put them into the normal side.