Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated]

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.

Comments

Re:Spatial Nautilus

[linolium]

I've never tried it, but I can't see why they would do it... I really hated it when Windows used that spatial thing. But, you know, I think the Gnome team would have done a bunch of research before they changed something as significant as this, so I don't think I have to worry about it being unefficient or anything. It's just getting used to it that will be a problem. ;)

Re:Spatial Nautilus

[vandemar]

Sounds reasonable if you are using a mouse. I like to navigate w/ keyboard - what's the tactic there?

xterm + bash

works for me :)

Re:Linux Predictions.

[sn0wman3030]

1% of the posts will offer statistics about the rest of the posts.

This widget was initially hard to find..

[hungfarlow]

so we're not going to tell you where it is!