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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.
Does abody else think the screen shots look an aweful lot like Classic Mac OS?
O_o
View menu -> View as List.
Resize window as needed.
Oh, look, it's a detailed columnized view.
> The Spatial Nautilus is very very annoying - it's much like the default Windows behaviour of popping up zillions of windows that you always have to turn off every time you reinstall Windows.
:)
Double-middle-click (or double-right-click, I'm not sure) on a directory closes the current window and pops the new one. This de-annoyifies Nautilus quite a bit.
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I refuse to use
Oh...for that you go to the "File Management" preferences and set "Text Beside Icons".
You could also turn on "Compact Layout", but that's pretty ugly.
:wq
It's already been said that 2.6 will likely not make it into Sarge.
:(
Personally I hate it when Debian prepares for releases, it means I have to wait until the release is made until I get new software in sid again.
Why not use ROX? It works equally well under KDE and Gnome, maximises use of screen estate, automatically switches to small icons at a configurable point, and one click switches between icon and detailed list view. It's also blindingly fast. Seriously, try it.
Phillip.
Property for sale in Nice, France
until gnome comes up with an integrated all-in-one development IDE ala' kdevelop, I'm not using it.
You haven't looked hard.
What about Anjuta, or MonoDevelop, combined with Glade?
Well, that, and because gnome is slow as ass compared to kde.
Unqualified, unsubstantiated, stupid as ass FUD.
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Thats why you use Gentoo, 9/10's of the time you can simply go "emerge gnome" and it will take care of everything.
Installing Gnome 2.6 on your Red Hat 9.0 will "ruin" all the Red Hat stuff, in the sense of setting everything to Gnome defaults rather than Red Hat modified defaults. A better option for you would likely be to wait a couple of months for Gnome 2.6 to be integrated into Fedora and then upgrade your installation to Fedora.
If however you are really keen you could try the Fedora Core 2 RC2 release. Though it is only a relase candidate (RC) it does ocntain Gnome 2.5 which is the beta version for the pending release of Gnome 2.6
Sounds reasonable if you are using a mouse. I like to navigate w/ keyboard - what's the tactic there?
Whoops, apparently there is C-S-w to do this. Not the easiest possible combo.
Too bad it only seems to kill parent folders, not all the folders.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
run:
/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser
:)
gconf-editor
goto
enable this option
"If set to true, then all Nautilus windows will be browser windows. This is how Nautilus used to behave before version 2.6, and some people prefer this behavior. "
you get the old nautilus back by default
Going from rh (7.2-9.0) to fc1 is just an apt-get dist-upgrade away.
Here's instructions to do it with yum, I did it just this week with apt (faster, in my opinion.) You should not have to reinstall anything (as long as you stick to rpms), and your home directory will be completely left alone, for the most part.
Upgrading from RedHat 8/9 to Fedora Core 1
Also #fedora on freenode is your friend.
There is a way to traverse back up the directory tree...
In spatial mode, click the directory name in the bottom left corner of the window. This brings up a list of all parent directories.
Somewhat undiscoverable, but better than command-clicking on the directory name in the titlebar on, say, MacOS 7.x.
preferences->input box->"nick completion suffix"
you don't have to click anything. you can just stick that suffix in and pow! works better than before!
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
Nautilus is noticably faster. Much faster. Heck, it's so fast that it isn't even funny anymore. Windows appear instantanously. It's faster than Konqueror or even Windows Explorer. :/
The right-to-left order is used to MacOS X. As everybody knows, everybody on Slashdot worships MacOS X, and always praise it for being the most userfriendly OS ever.
:/
That aside, GNOME is actively moving away from the "Cancel/No/Yes" button order. They've been doing that for years now if you still haven't noticed.
Instead, buttons now have explicit action verbs, like "Cancel, Don't Save, Save", just like in the much-praised MacOS X.
"but any Windows or KDE user who tries out Gnome will find themselves clicking on the wrong button because Gnome has it backwards."
Which further proves that "Yes/No" is braindead and should be replaced by action verbs.
preferences->input box->"nick completion suffix
/nick. (And thanks to some odd Xchat bug, it only works with a single char, though some of the code clearly supports using more than a single char.)
Is not the same at nick completion. That only adds whatever you desire to the end of of a completed
Sunny Dubey
Alt-left click moves the window for me in gnome
alt-middle click lets you resize it
alt-right click brings up the window menu.
This is using the metacity that comes with gnome 2.6
Shift is the modifier for "close current window behind me". So Shift-double-click and Shift-Alt-down open the selected folder and close the current window, and Shift-Alt-up opens the parent folder and closes the current window.
First of all, this preference is not there by default. GCONF, much like Window's RegEdit, requires you to know the type of a key if you need to create it.
/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser does not exist, you have no idea if it should be a boolean, an int, a string, or what.
So if
Second of all, in nautilus-2.5.6-1 this does not work. I've tried - at least, it does not work if the key is a bool. I have not had the patience to try all possible combinations of type and value.
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Unlike the windows registry, each GConf app includes the schema with the keys it uses, including its type and documentation. If that key does not exists, it means it's not supported by your currently installed version of nautilus.
If it does exists, selecting it at gconf-editor will allow you to see it's value, type, and documentation.