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Gnome 2.10 Released

Posted by timothy on from the getcher-torrent-on dept.

Mad_Rain writes "The new version of Gnome (you know, the desktop of many Linux users?) has just been released. You can even try it out with a LiveCD (bittorrent link). There is a video player and CD-ripping utility included, and the all-important new splash screen!"

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  1. Re:Future viability in question? by jdclucidly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Disclaimer: I'm a KDE user.

    I always give Gnome due dilligence for each release. Each time a new version comes out I test it out for one full week and see how it works for me. Since the release of 2.0 I have always gone back to KDE for this reason:

    [on #gnome on irc.freenode.net]
    Me: Where is feature X? It seems like I ought to be able to do X but I can't seem to find it.
    Dev/Zealot A1: Yea we think that's a good idea but we haven't gotten to it yet.
    or
    Dev/Zealot A2: Well, X is too complicated so we did Y. You must use Y. X is not implemented.

    As with other releases I will try 2.10 out and see how it's progressed but here's a list of show stoppers in previous versions:

    * Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find)
    * Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying.
    * No window snapping
    * Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful
    * Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere)
    * Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit
    * Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox
    * Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals.

    A lot of people bitch about spacial Nautilus but I don't think that's nearly important as some other basic needed features (window snapping). I can modify the way my brain works with a particular computer paradigm if I think it might be more sensible but I cannot do without features that increase my productivity.

    So here's to hoping.