Gnome 2.8 RC1 Released

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."

Comments

Re:Evolution does not belong !!

[theantix]

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.

Official Mirror

[davydmadeley]

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 ;)

Re:Evolution does not belong !!

[JamesHenstridge]

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.

Re:Too much like MS?

[crackshoe]

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.