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GNOME 2.8 Released
damogar writes "The GNOME 2.8 Desktop and Platform release is the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment, out today, with an awesome schedule time. Some pretty cool improvements have been made, specially the Nautilus file manager, the new MIME system and others.
Release notes are already available, as well as screenshots and a variety of sources. Enjoy!"
jimmy_dean adds a plug for the new
GNOME Journal, which is meant to be a source of "good written material surrounding GNOME and the opinions of the community."
Check it out! Scalable Nibbles! I'm in.
Do you understand what you've just done? Now we need to deal with a bunch of "They're both dying!" jokes.
Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Because KDE is winning; face it, GNOME is dying.
If it's a choice between the red BSD colour scheme and the beige IT colour scheme I'm glad it's been stuck in BSD.
Sorry, but I'm not going by your say so. I want confirmation from Netcraft!
I wish they'd test their releases first! .tar file.
I'm having trouble installing it. XP keeps telling me it doesn't know what to do with a
Why are there only 19 people folding@home for slashdot?
Wtf is a lephor?
Personally, I used Gnome because the interface was clean and fairly simple. With the 2.8 release, a few of my major concerns have been addressed. Namely, the ability to automatically mount USB and other removable devices, improved file browser/mime support, and so forth (here's a link to the particular page of release notes of interest to me.) The auto-mount removable storage devices feature is more important to my girlfriend than to me.
I never really got into KDE too much because it seemed too cluttered. Granted, it can be reconfigured to remove the clutter, but my first impression with it has been a lasting one.
Unfortunately, for gnome anyway, my desire for unclutter has brought me back to fluxbox, but I will still pick up gnome 2.8, if nothing else, just so I can support any of my gf's questions.
Kirk: Mirror... Destroyed... Must Warn Others!
Spock: Strangely, the mirror appears to have been demolished.
Scotty: I can't do miracles, dammit! She's crackin' up! I'm gettin' 404s!
Bones: She's gone, Jim.
> its slashdotted.
It's a 10 Mbit link, too. Whew, lots of clicking going on.
> thanks for nothing
You're welcome!
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%thank $DIETY ;)
DIETY: Undefined variable.
%thank $DEITY
You're welcome.
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Shouldn't you be doing something useful?
I know xorg 6.8 has only just been released but does this new version of gnome support any of the new features like transparency, damage or shadow?
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I'm sure it will. Gnome is always the first to implement exciting new technological features such as
1.Reversing the order of the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons.
2.GConf - Note: It's NOT like the Windows registry. It might act like it and look like it but it's just NOT alright?
3.The ever popular spatial Nautilus (if you don't like it you must be stupid, so we won't tell you how to turn it off).
4.Not letting you change colours (it's for your own good - if we gave you that level of control you'd just change them all to white or something).
5.Whatever Eugenia from OSNews has a hardon for this week (sorry for that mental image).
6.Mono - innovation at its finest.
7.The Gnome HIG - which consists of points 1,3,4 & 5 above.
You can mod me down but it's still true.
Netcraft confirms it... GNOME is dying! I couldn't find a single server or otherwise headless machine running it. These are dark days in indeed. In fact the recent release of GNOME 2.8 and the upcoming release of FreeBSD 5 are only more nails in the proverbial coffin.
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.
I get so sick of the gits on Slashdot assuming that only drooling morons use KDE and GNOME.
In all fairness, I think the assumption is that only drooling morons read Slashdot. Some just happen to use Gnome as well.
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto