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Gnome 2.8 RC1 Released

Posted by michael on from the someday-we'll-update-the-gnome-icon dept.

FlipmodePlaya writes "Linux Today reports the first release candidate for Gnome 2.8 has been released. A look at the new stuff can be found here. Notably, the possible inclusion of Evolution, and some networking goodies. My opinion: the GUI changes look too much like Windows/Internet Explorer for my tastes; I guess it's not just KDE."

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  1. cache? by TCM · · Score: 3, Informative

    since it even got its own story, why not use it?

    try here.

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    1. Re:cache? by MikeCapone · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yeah, that's the thing.. I guess submitters can't all know about this, but the slashdot editors could re-write URLs to include the .nyud.net:8090 and that'd save quite a few people a slashdotting.

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  2. Re:Slashdotted by davydmadeley · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-8/

  3. Re:Evolution does not belong !! by theantix · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a good reason why Evo is being included -- having the contact information centralized and standard in every Gnome installation means that other Gnome applications can use that data. This has implications for IM clients, browsers, file managers, and the interesting new fringe projects like Storage and Beagle and Dashboard. Without Evo's datastore built into Gnome, they would have to build an independant contact manager, and to me it makes sense to use the perfectly good one that Evolution already has.

    And I'm not even an Evo user, I just understand the logic behind one of the reasons to include it. I'm sure there are other reasons too.

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  4. Re:It's not KDE by theantix · · Score: 3, Informative

    do you not see a striking resembalence to Windows/Internet Explorer, as I stated?

    No. Hey, you asked -- I just answered. They *do* share a commonality with dialogs that are designed to be clear and consise -- some Windows dialogs meet this criteria but others certainly do not.

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  5. Official Mirror by davydmadeley · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not going to make the mistake of getting in trouble for getting /.ed again. The maxclients on that server has been set down quite low, I've added a redirect to offload to offload to GNOME's webserver.

    If someone could update the story URL, that would be great ;)

  6. Re:Slashdotted by TCM · · Score: 3, Informative

    Argh. It ate my link :(

    This I meant. Yes, I preview from now on :(

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  7. Re:Evolution does not belong !! by JamesHenstridge · · Score: 5, Informative

    The component of Evolution that handles storage of calendar and address book data has been split off into a separate evolution-data-server module. This is the module that other programs use for calendar and address book integration.

    It would also be possible for other mail clients to make use of e-d-s for address book storage, in which case they would also benefit from the desktop integration.

  8. Re:Too much like MS? by AntiOrganic · · Score: 4, Informative
    And the lack of an (accessable) context menu is also very weird to me.
    No one's making you use a one-button mouse. You can plug in any regular two-button mouse and map the right-click to pop up a context menu.
  9. Re:Too much like MS? by crackshoe · · Score: 5, Informative

    accesible? if you're using the provided one button mouse (and i know very few people who do), you just hold down one key, and you get your context menu. just because you don't understand how to do something doesn't mean its not accesible.

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  10. I need some karma by md17 · · Score: 3, Informative


    So that you all can avoid those google searches here are the links:

    Storage Beagle
    Dashboard

  11. Re:Too much like MS? by prockcore · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think button 1 does something, button 2 does something else is a lot more intuitive than button one does something if you press it for a short time and something else if you press it for a long time

    Pet peeve: the "hold button for context menu" only works in the dock. How inconsitant. Doesn't work in the finder, doesn't work in safari.. doesn't work anywhere but the dock.

  12. Re:Too much like MS? by farnz · · Score: 4, Informative
    What happens if I want to be notified of an incoming IM, and I have sound disabled, while working in another desktop?

    Certainly with Kopete, and presumably with other multiple desktop aware IM programs, a new message notification can be made to appear briefly on all desktops; this can be configured on a per-contact basis.

    Thus, when my close friends IM me, I get a prompt no matter what virtual desktop I'm on. When it's IM spam, or a stranger, I don't get prodded.

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