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GNOME 2.12 Released
Moderator writes "At long last, Gnome 2.12 has been released! Among the many new features are clipboard management, a menu editor, an improved search tool, and a spatial-tree view in Nautilus. Check out the start page for more info."
I have a theory that Microsoft employees are trying to sabotage the open source initiative by "volunteering" to help work on the code. Personally, I'd just like to be able to set an evironment variable, e.g. MS_EMULATION_ATTEMPT=0 and have all this eye candy crap go away.
lol, this defines slashdot for me nowadays. This could only have been moderated up by a GNOME fan. How is it worthy of my 3 point viewing threshold? It isn't.
GNOME is pretty attractive, IMO the default theme has the edge over Plastik, and I'm a KDE user. However I think it's clear the new GNOME theme was influenced by Plastik. But I expect Plastik was influenced by something else anyway. We all share ideas, that's why we do so well. Die patents die!
Mod me up pls!
agreed. Basic GUI stuff like fonts is the reason why Linux will never approach the usability of commercial OS/GUIs like Windows, or Apple's.
REAL users don't know that there's such thing as a windowing system, a display server, an operating system, etc. To a REAL user, these are one in the same, and it shouldn't be necessary to struggle to get these configured the way they want. Just think if you had to add Windows fonts by dumping files into a folder, then opening a DOS window and executing some obscure command.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Someone wrote that GNOME is an OSX killer before.
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.doc in Windows Explorer, it will change the app icon despite it being the same file !!! Now remove any extension, the broken Windows Explorer don't know anymore what this file is. Now do the same in Nautilus, and see the icon stay the same. Do the same with an image or video file, look at how Nautilus show you a thumbnail when Windows Explorer shows you an app icon. Now rename the file the same as before. Look at how it is broken and Nautilus is not. In some MS OS (like Win200), once you changed the extension (for example, .png to .gif) the stupid Windows Explorer will not even show you any image anymore in the left side, like something in it crashed or something.
... You're pathetic really, you talk like Gnome is a huge block like Windows while every self-respecting troll knows that Gnome is made of lots of parts, the configuration being one. And yet you say the whole design is wrong if a config file has been edited ? I see, you prefer having nothing at all like in other OSes ?
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Well yeah, maybe in 2020.
OK well, you corrected someone, fine.
You see, Nautilus alone is vastly inferior to Finder (the new one). Of all gnome components, nautilus is the one that sucks most. Try browsing a large directory with thousands of files with nautilus, konqueror and windows explorer. The latter ones scan the directory MUCH faster. Nautilus takes about 1-2 MINUTES - unacceptable.
What I see
- You didn't explain how Nautilus is vastly inferior to Finder, but you still affirm it
- You did explain why Nautilus sucks, only problem is that you used a flawed argument
Of course Windows Explorer will display the directory faster, which does not mean it has scanned it faster or that it scanned it correctly. You forgot to say that the functionality is abysmal in Windows Explorer compared to Gnome, and that Windows Explorer is broken, while Nautilus is not and will display things correctly. Try renaming a OpenOffice document to
And you dare say Nautilus suck ? Perhaps by your standard, where it must be fast before it works, but in my standard, I don't give a damn that it is fast if it does not work. What is the purpose of your fast displaying of thousands of files if you can't even be sure of their type, let alone see their content instantly ? You will take more time finding the right one than me with my Nautilus in the end !!! Unlike you, I don't open directories for the sake of opening them, but to get work done.
Also, it is evident that once an ORDINARY USER (no hacker, no power user, no admin, no dev) has to edit a config file, the whole design has failed
I would have thought that only the configuration GUI design was at fault, but you know better of course
Of course, this is not gnomes problem alone, but to a great deal the underlying OS; however, we are talking about an OSX killer, right?
No we are not, only someone called it that, you could not even give his name. What is your audience for this post ? I'm starting to wonder
If you aren't lucky, and the hardware doesn't fit 1:1 with the distro, you have to dig through obscure manpages.
Are you confused ? We call them "obscure manpages" the "Web" or "distribution vendor support". You did pay for the distro you're complaining about right ? You know they offer free phone support when you buy their distro right ?
I also read that anyone that is not able to edit configfiles is an idiot and everyone MUST learn how to do this
By the same someone than before or another ? You seem to base your facts on random writing by random people : are you a stupid fool or what ?
See, I doubt a biologist that made some photos about a weird plant and want to download them from his cam to his PC is interested in editing config files just to get this to work - he JUST WANTS TO DO HIS JOB and is certainly not interested in lear