The GNOME Roadmap

glockenspieler writes "Recently on the the Gnome Foundation mailing list, Dave Camp posted a draft Gnome Roadmap for versions 2.8 and Beyond. Issues up for discussion are Mozilla/Epiphany, incorportation of peer to peer filesharing, blogging, addition of more media widgets, and many others. Time for Gnome users to weigh in on what improvements that you would like to see. If that's not enough, then there's always the the C# versus Java versus ? discussion."

Comments

Re:Painful Widget Sets

[Pxtl]

Blame the user. Smooth. Windows and KDE both let the user work in the old Mac approach of "click to open menu, release to select the item". GTK doesn't. So, Mac users are wrong then? And if they don't like it?

Oh, right, this is GNOME, where customization is either picking your desktop wallpaper or recompiling from source.

Don't list crap as improvements, dammit!

[Quietti]

Sheesh! The following items are NOT improvements and should therefore not be listed as one:

• New file selector - Either click your way thru the whole folder hierarchy or call up a path dialog and be expected to remember the exact full path. The lovely tab completion from GNOME 2.4 is gone. Idiots!
• Yet another browser change - First Galeon, then Epiphany, now Firefox? Can you make your fucking mind up and stick to it for good?
• Rhythmbox is more mature - Hard to tell, given that the 0.6 series could play streams and files that the new 0.8 series fail to playback. Try telling that to the Gstreamer guys who are so ego-inflated that they insist on calling their new back-ends "better" even though they broke Rhythmbox.