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Gnome 2.10 Sneak Peek
spectre_be writes "Davyd Madeley wrote a Sneak Peek at Gnome 2.10, scheduled for release on the March 9, 2005. Looks like the new release-policy is starting to pay of, as several existing utilities get enhancements and a couple of new ones are added. Also (finally) a mozilla-stylee type-ahead find has been implemented in Gnome's Open/Save dialog. Together with OpenOffice.org 2.0's scheduled release and Novell's Mono coming up to speed, will 2005 prove to be the year of Gnome?" Update: 01/18 01:40 GMT by T : Oops - the "2-point" got chopped off in the headline; still a while until GNOME 10.
The open dialog is still that horrible atrocity. I'd really, really be glad if they reverted to the 1.4 open dialog. I hate KDE.
I still don't care about Gnome. It has a silly name, I don't know what Gnome is and I don't really care because it has a silly name - Gnome, something small that I don't need.
Yes, it does look much better than the previous release, but it still doesn't look as snazzy or as futuristic as XP, and unfortuanately for all of those Linux user out there, the common non-tech-savvy person often will choose a version of Windows over a distro of Linux simply because XP just looks nicer and easier to use. I won't get into an argument of which OS is better over the other since I don't want to get flamed to death, but I do think that how nice the GUI looks is (sadly) a big factor as to whether or not Joe User from Suburbia USA will pick one OS over the other for his day-to-day Net surfing, gaming, emailing, or whatever.
Most people out there will end up judging a book by its cover if they can't figure out whats actually inside.
So you're saying GNOME is as stupid as Windows? Is this really the GNOME policy that as long as Microsoft does it then it must be okay?
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
I use Gnome on my Debian machine and KDE on my Suse machine. Both are b-apt-ized with the sources.
d it-hilite-full.png) gedit is syntax hightlighting an html file. Gedit can even do Java and Perl files. But, It can't syntax highlight simple sh/bash files? I don't understand that.
;) I don't want to start a KDE/Gnome flame war... And, yes, I am aware of the whole GTK vs Qt licensing problem...)
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But honestly, I am more productive with KDE than with Gnome. Gnome can be a pain in the arse. I've listed a few of my quirks below.
Nautilus:
In the folder tree (left window), try moving or renaming a folder. You can't. You have click on it's parent folder and scroll down in the right window and find it to move/rename it.
Konquerer in KDE works fine.
Gnome Clipboard Manager (I know, it's not part of the Gnome project...):
Copy and pasting between GTK1/2 and Qt apps while GCM is enabled total screws up your "highlighted" and "copied" clipboards.
Klipper in KDE has never screwed up my clipboard.
Gedit:
In this Gnome 2.10 screenshot example (http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/images/ge
Kate/Krite in KDE syntax highlights just fine and cleverly adds an expand/collapse icon to your for/while loops.
(I have lots more, but I'll stop there before I piss someone off
One excuse I've been told is that Gnome is designed to be a more minimal Desktop. Then why not just use XFCE? It the best (and fastest) minimal GTK based Desktop I've ever used:
http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=users_screensh
Sometimes I think that the Gnome development team is trying so hard not to be like KDE (or even like Windows) it's development is being hindered.
Am I being rude or too honest?
-Joe
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Perhaps you could re-implement X in Java. That would speed it up.