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GNOME 2.6 Reviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the review-it dept.

Kethinov writes "I just read this article reviewing GNOME 2.6 via the 2.5 development version. Many screenshots, plus extensive discussion on the new direction Nautilus is taking among other things. Worth a read. (A mirror would be nice ;)" Sorry - I duped this. Mea culpa.

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  1. Re:GNOME catching up to Windows... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Windows XP? I'd still like to see drag-drop functionality on par with say... Windows 95? [not trolling]

    I realize that progress has been made and more progress will be made in the future but GNOME and KDE both still have a ways to go before they can be considered more than just an adequate replacement for the Windows XP gui. People that have made an investment in Windows won't bother switching until there are compelling reasons to switch.

  2. CEREN IS NOW A FAT, UGLY COW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If anyone has seen a recent picture of Ceren Ercen, then you know that she's porked out like most geeky cybergoth girls do. She no longer has the svelte look she once did and has sold her devil costume quite some time ago. This just goes to show you that BSD is dying. What we really need are some sexy babes who can keep their figure, cook and clean, and keep their nose out of our business when us guys are up to something important.

  3. Go back to Programming 101 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    The article talks about the keyboard configurator ACME:
    However, I would request the developers to use some kind of human readable keycodes in the shortcuts column of the dialogue. Hex numbers are scary... And I don't know if it's just me, but it seems that the keyboard shortcut dialogue in general could use some UI love.

    Then later the author talks about the text editor:

    Also, thanks to and improved gtksourceview, the number of languages/scripts supported for syntax highlighting has improved dramatically - it has now support for Ada, C, C++, C#, diff files, .desktop files, HTML, IDL files, Java, LaTeX, MSIL, Perl, PHP (Yay!!)
    The author first says he is afraid of "scary" hex numbers, but then he later mentions that he's excited about a PHP syntax file. Does this alarm any one else? I swear, if any of today's "programmers" doesn't know how to read hex, doesn't know pointers (including pointer arithmetic), and doesn't give a fuck about the command line, our industry is doomed. Get your shit together you assholes!
  4. Re:Spatial is a step backwards by Elektroschock · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What I particularly found ugly was the Nautilus was started with the Gnome desktop from KDE. Not a fault of KDe but from Gnome. Some Gnome developers are zelots that are an interoperability risk.