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Gnome 2.4 Release (d)

Posted by timothy on from the seldon-plan dept.

chendo writes "Gnome 2.4 will be released today. Here is the link to the article on Ars Technica. GNOME 2.4 is the result of quite a bit of work toward complying with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), which mainly focus on user interface consistency and predictability. This release has also undergone some general polish, and it can finally be said that the GNOME 2 platform has achieved maturity with this release. The Epiphany web browser, a major new component of GNOME, also makes its debut with this release. (From Footnotes)"

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  1. updated file dialog box? by SQLz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there a new file dialog box or is it still trying to emulate the one found in Windows 1.0?

  2. Re:current gnome 2.x issues (any devels listening? by Si · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have gnome set to always save settings..

    As far as gconf-editor goes, I've tried it, as well as editing the xml files by hand (before starting gnome). Neither worked successfully, causing gnome-panel to crash on startup in the worst cases.

    Little things like gnome forgetting that I have a transparent panel with a colour set. It remembers the transparency but not the colour. I can live with it, but it's annoying.

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  3. Re:Browsers... by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Basically, the very thing everyone bitched endlessly about five years ago when Windows 98 came out.

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  4. Re:current gnome 2.x issues (any devels listening? by Wolfier · · Score: 0, Troll

    One thing that GNOME 2 developers fail to realize is that, usability studies are just "studies".

    These researches are often performed with a few examples that the researcher THINK are good representations - and the sad thing is, they tend to arrive at SWEEPING conclusions.

    For one, I bet that there's no end user who asked for the restriction of not being able to move windows behind a panel bar. i.e. this decision is a suggestion of "usability studies".

    On the bug reports, on the other hand, there are people who complains about not being able to freely move *their* windows. "Panel bars seem to block windows I want to move", etc.

    Yet, some GNOME developers, in their arrogance, replied that "it's a feature and won't be fixed".

    Ah, thank you. This kind of attitude completely shows how the GNOME team totally forgets what, or more importantly, WHO, made them successful in the first place.

    Damn you.

  5. Re:Gnome development outpacing KDE? by HanzoSan · · Score: 0, Troll



    Yeah like Windows95. So why do we need linux.

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