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Gnome 2.10 Sneak Peek

Posted by timothy on from the whale-lookie-here dept.

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.

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  1. Big difference.... by chipster · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...from the previous releases. Looks fantastic - and actually looks like the interface was *thought through*. Good job team.

  2. Re:Pronounciation for y'all by whoever57 · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's pronounced "nome". Not "guh-nome"

    Not according to the Gnome website.

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  3. Re:Pronounciation for y'all by Prowl · · Score: 5, Informative
    from gnu.org homepage:

    GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX"; it is pronounced "guh-noo."
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  4. Re:Pronounciation for y'all by frantzdb · · Score: 3, Informative

    I agree on the dorkyness count, but that said Miguel, Nat, and all the other Ximians say "guh-nome" in real life.

  5. Re:Uhm... by BenjyD · · Score: 3, Informative

    A whole bunch of file dialogs from different OS are here. Panther's looks kind of similar to the current GNOME one - the old GTK dialog looks like the older MacOS style.

  6. Re:GNOME team seems more aggressive than the KDE t by JabberWokky · · Score: 5, Informative
    Soooo where is the KDE team in all of this?

    With Novell (who also owns Ximian) via SUSE and other large companies like IBM. The default desktop for *all* of the commercially successful desktop distros (commercially successful, since you're talking about commercial alliances). Connected to state contracts with national governments like Germany's Kolab project.

    KDE does have plenty of connections, as does Gnome. I'd hardly say that either is ignoring that aspect of their projects. Both have excellent people working toward commercial advocacy.

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  7. Re:OpenOffice? by micolous · · Score: 3, Informative

    Obviously you're using the standard version of OpenOffice. GNOME has their own GNOME-ized version, ximian-openoffice. I personally prefer it to standard OpenOffice, probably because I use GNOME and it all fits in well with the desktop.

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  8. Re:finding files!-Beagle by noda132 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, GNOME Storage is a pretty dead project. What people probably want to see screenshots for these days is Beagle. Beagle gathers metadata and indexes content instead of replacing the filesystem. And it Just Works. Has done so for months.

  9. Epiphany has better extensions support by noda132 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unmentioned on that page: Epiphany extensions can now be loaded/unloaded on-the-fly. The epiphany-extensions package comes with an extension which lets you do this. And the adblock extension is coming, dammit!

    And there's also "pyphany" in CVS. It lets you make extensions using Python. Included in the CVS module: a Python Console extension, which is probably the best way to prototype extensions (you can, say, connect a signal to change the zoom, with just a couple of lines of code).