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"

Comments

Truth: The State of Desktop Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Any user of Mac OS X can see, in these screenshots, the wretched face of desperation--and an ugly face it is too. Compared to Aqua, the GNOME environment is misery embodied. So the question naturally presents itself: Why would anyone bother using Linux, when a brand-new Mac can be had for $499?

Face it, Linux advocates. Your time has come and gone. 2004 was the year of Linux on the desktop, and nobody noticed. Five years hence, GNOME and KDE both will lie forgotten in the dustbin of history.

Re:Truth: The State of Desktop Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Given that law-abiding citizens must pay $699 for a license to run Linux, it is indeed one of the universe's great mysteries why anyone would choose that exercise in mediocrity over Mac OS X.

Re:Truth: The State of Desktop Linux

[desplesda]

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.

Re:Truth: The State of Desktop Linux

[callipygian-showsyst]

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?

You actually think this looks good?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you think these GNOME screenshots look good, or even more important - will be a step forward in usability, you're really out in the cold.

When you grow tired of your amateur GUIs...consider Mac OS X. It looks so much better than the KDE Krokodile and GNOME beta screenshots that i've seen - so much better that it's not even funny ....and, and the interface is actually intuitive - you dont have to know anything about UNIX or X servers or modelines or anything to use it.

I mean, stop kidding yourselves - Windows 3.1 looked better than these screenshots.

It looks like Microsoft Windows

[callipygian-showsyst]

With the bar on the top!

Re:Shitty SS's

[spectre_240sx]

I dunno, it was informative enough to tell me that Gnome still looks like ass...

Re:bad menu UI

[suckmysav]

" 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)

ugly arse desktop

[Anonymous Coward]

and its still fucking ugly. when are people going to realise that linux on the desktop is a BAD IDEA! just buy a mac already!