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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.
But seriously, Gnome and KDE are so close in functionality that I've honestly only chosen to use KDE because it looks nicer.
They are both great desktops. KDE's latest offering (3.3) even added convenient single-file theme packages (*.kth) which strangely hasn't seemed to generate even a tiny bit of buzz. That means its fully themeable without any complicated packages! Just import your best friends theme and use it.
Which all mean I don't understand the Linux communities relationship with their desktop at all. =)
Maybe Gnome will add something like this and realise how popular theme support is (and push it). Who knows.
Quack, quack.
It wont matter, because you will still have to use the commandline for everything.
look at these features!
honestly, at least in that preview there's nothing marked as new that hasn't been in KDE for ages.
Seriously. Yes, the interface is now cleaner but only because the layout of every screenshot bar the open/save dialogs looks like a complete and utter copy of Windows.
I mean besides all the controls and general window layout being identical to windows, the help browser looks exactly like windows, the volume control is what I'd expect to appear if I double clicked on the speaker icon on a windows box and when I first saw totem I thought it was WMP 6.1 running in WINE.
Is MS's interface design really that great that you want a free bona fide copy of it? Or are you just trying to make your project appeal to the lowest common denominator. (Windows users)
Do you really need Bookmarks and Go in a help browser? Don't you think a dotted line around the currently selected tab is kinda ugly? Why do the supported features dots in the drives section look like checkboxes? (which you can change by very nature)
The whole UI has the potential to be very clean but instead it looks cluttered. Yeah, this post is a lot of whining about 2 products I don't even use (linux & windows) but it's just sad to see the former become more and more like the latter. But I guess that's why we have different projects.
KDE & Gnome for people who like windows and uhh, maybe windowmaker for those who want something a bit different.