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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."
Just because it is ugly doesn't mean it looks like Windows. What specifically was that comment based on?
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
The project has gone on way too long. End this stupid little temper-tantrum by that dimwit Miguel.
Stop damaging the Linux desktop push and grow the fuck up.
The big question is have they fixed the file selector yet?
After all the fuss last time to end up with an ugly, broken and almost unusable file selector I am wondering if the have bothered to roll it back to the old usable one? You know, one where you could type in file and path names, use tab completion etc, hell even jsut adding the ability to show
Ok, I know average moron does not need to be able to edit ~/.some_config but does that mean I should not edit it either?
Wow, that's some real 'strategic' thinken going on there sport.
Good thing Linux has smart folk like you on it's side!
Not to sound trollish or anything but am I the only one that thinks the icons and widgets for Gnome and GTK look like ass? I thought it was just Gaim but then I tried Gnome and they all looked like that! When will we get nicer looking things? (Don't say it doesn't matter, this is one of the reasons why I don't use things like GTK#, it looks just as ugly on Windows)
uhhhh... fear, fear. Grow some balls and log in, or shut the fuck up.
Jeesus farkin' christ, no one can question your allmighty ideals and not be acused of "trolling". I just don't porkin' like KDE and I use XFCE. Get the fuck over it.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Wow, gnome's still around. After they gutted the features of 1.4 to create the first 2.x release, they began a downward spiral. I prefer windows XP over every gnome 2.x release. Gnome's clearly stated that they've intentionally dumbed down the interface. Windows has more features than gnome now. Pretty sad. For all they've stripped out, it can't even be considered a light weight GUI with all the library requirements. The GTK tool kit is pretty nice, but Gnome as a user envronment is pretty much worthless. I don't know anyone who uses it any more. They've all switched to KDE. All because of poor reasearch [on the part of the gnome team] on user interfaces. Pretty sad....