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

[petabyte]

Open up gconf-editor, and go to apps - nautilus - preferences. There is a key marked "always_use_browser". Check that off and the god-awful spatial crap goes away and nautilus works as it did in 2.4.

Also worth noting is that under apps - nautilus - desktop you can disable the useless my computer icon on the desktop. I've done both of this and 2.6 nautilus is actually useable now.

Disabling Spatial Nautilus

[Eddy Da KillaBee]

For those of you who don't like the new Spatial Nautilus (like me) there are a couple of things you could do to go back to the "old" way of browsing files.

You could right-click a file, and select "browse from here" (or something like that, can't remember).

Or, for a more permanent solution, check the following key in GConf:

/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser

Enjoy! :)

Re:The greatest feature in KDE

[zaqattack]

I use alt-middleclick to resize the window with the mouse under Metacity.