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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.
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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
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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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
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
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.
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.