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GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 Screenshot Demo
linuxbeta writes "GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 has just been released. There is a nice screenshot demo here. Also known as 2.9.90, GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 is the first pre-release intended for wide public scrutiny before the final release in March. It is packed full of tasty GNOME goodness. This release is a feature frozen snapshot primarily intended for wide public scrutiny before the final GNOME 2.10 release in March. Like the good old days of Linux kernel development, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. Please check the 2.9 start page for more info. - gnomedesktop.org/node/2138"
That's right. This screenshot tour is, of course, the official screenshot tour, delivered by GNOME. You can tell they're desperate for exposure - look! They posted a message to a mailinglist and everything!
Troll.
I dunno, it was informative enough to tell me that Gnome still looks like ass...
" There's a big space between the "foot" and "Applications" (same spacing as between other menus), yet they're the same menu?!"
That is one (minor) thing that has nonetheless always annoyed the hell out me. Another is how difficult it is to add extra items to the "Start Menu" under Gnome. KDE is so much uglier than Gnome, but at least all I need to do is open up the Prefs dialogue and hit "right-click>Add New Item" to add an app.
You have to edit some text file hidden deep in the bowels of the system to do the same thing in Gnome (or at least you did in 2.4 which is the last time I tried Gnome)
"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
This is exactly the attitude that cased me to run away from the Macintosh platform. C# and .NET aren't crap. In fact the Gnu folks and Novell's Open Source group are spending considerable time and effort with their own implementations. You don't see a lot of new Objective-C stuff going on outside Apple, do you?
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