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Feature Preview of Gnome 2.8

Posted by michael on from the gnome-man's-land dept.

Leonardo writes "The GNOME foundation should release the new version of this desktop environment on the 15th of September. While we waiting for version 2.8, Foot Notes has a link that explains what's new in this release. Improvements include both core parts (like VFS and Nautilus) and UI modules, like a new applet manager, an improved gconf editor and a new theme. In addition there are some proposed modules like new system tools and a new VNC server. Take a look at Davyd Madeley' site (mirror) if you want to view some sweet screenshots."

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  1. Re:Oh no ! by b-baggins · · Score: 0, Troll

    --- ...but it would be useless to 99.99% of the population.
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    Which is different from now in exactly what way?

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  2. Re:Did they kill "spatial" Nautilus yet? by FyRE666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    So they're still leaving it as the default even though it's obviously an incredibly stupid idea? Guess it's easier than admitting it's a stupid idea ;-) Dunno why I'm moaning though, it just convinced me to return to KDE (after searching for the disable switch for 10 minutes - there isn't one in FC2, although there's apparently some command-line tool to do it - kind of defeats the purpose of a GUI, but still ;-) and I doubt I'll bother with Gnome again.

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