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Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the standing-in-the-garden-with-a-gun dept.

The Original Yama writes "Ars Technica takes a look inside the GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform, due for release any minute now. It builds upon an earlier review of the GNOME 2.5 development series and their own examination of GNOME 2.4." darthcamaro writes "internetnews.com is running a story about the release of GNOME 2.6 today. They actually got a hold of Miguel de Icaza who had some real interesting stuff to say about it and the Linux Desktop in general. 'de Icaza told internetnews.com that a simpler interface has been the goal of GNOME since at least version 2.0.'" Update: 03/31 21:59 GMT by T : sn0wman3030 was one of many submitters to link to the GNOME 2.6 start page, including links to screenshots, documentation, and source downloads.

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  1. Oh yea. by FreeLinux · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I totally agree! But, I expect some moron to start yabbering on about how great Gnome is because they concentrate on a quality UI and have a HIG.

    It's great to have a standard and to require your apps to follow that standard but, when the standard is bizarre, counter intuitive, or just stinks that makes you UI and apps....

  2. Re:Nautilus by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    let me guess...your a 55 year old Mac Classic die hard that will never upgrade to OS X because your principals just don't allow it.

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    I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
  3. Re:GnomeMac, KDEWin by molnarcs · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "Although it isn't completely clear cut, it seems that KDE takes a lot of inspiration from Windows Explorer (yes I know it does a lot more), while Gnome seems more like MacOS Finder (but isn't as good yet). I guess the majority of computer users (including the /. crowd) comes from a Windows background, which may explain why they feel more at home in KDE than Gnome."

    Your second statement is not necessarily related to the first one. Rather, it boils down to this question: which one would you prefer?

    • a) An application that outperforms its windows equivalent in every respect (d&d ripping of cds, split views, embedded everything, including pdf viewer/converter - you can print anything to pdf in KDE - media-player, multi-protocol - fish, ftp, www, smb - lan browser without the necessity to mount those shares, in-line spellchecker to please grammar-nazis here on ./, etc. in one consistent interface.
    • b) An application that doesn't perform as well as its Mac OS 9 equivalent from the last century.