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."

Comments

Re:clipboard?

[ne0n]

no, all it says is this:

New clipboard management, based on the Freedesktop.org specification and tightly integrated with GNOME, allows for objects to persist in the clipboard longer than the lifetime of an application. This means that if you cut or copy an object and then exit that application, the item you put on the clipboard will remain until you replace it. The new clipboard manager is technically superior to existing implementations and integrates tightly with specially designed GTK+ APIs, allowing for a faster and more flexible clipboard implementation.

The bloody X clipboard is separate from GNOME's clipboard, it's actually a "feature" of X. If they've got rid of it, that's a pretty cool achievement and a huge step in the right direction.

KDE Zealots: A vocal minority of a dying DE

[Gilesx]

Interesting how every time we see a new Gnome release announcement, you see pages and pages of comments about how Gnome sucks and KDE is better, yet every time there's a KDE announcement, the comments are filled with KDE fanboy-ism.

Wow! Gnome must really suck right? Wrong. Let's take a look at the top 5 distros in Distrowatch right now:

1 Ubuntu 2737
2 Mandriva 1635
3 Fedora 1310
4 SUSE 1277
5 MEPIS 1155

Ubuntu and Fedora are primarily Gnome based. Mandriva and MEPIS are primarily KDE based. SUSE has a strong gnome and KDE offering, and also is owned by Novell who own what used to be Ximian so I guess we can call that one 50/50. Which leaves the distrowatch DE table at:

Gnome - 4047 (Ubuntu + Fedora)
KDE - 2790 (Mandriva + MEPIS)

So there are over 1000 more hits on a distro using sucky old Gnome than KDE a day? But wait a minute! Gnome? But that sucks!

Hmmmm looks like what we have here is a case of the "vocal minority". - we've seen it all before... Users become attached to "their" desktop environment, and when it's not the most popular, and it's not getting all the limelight, and it's not being adopted right left and centre in big business, and not getting a lot of the major commercial support of the other desktop environment, they start to get insecure. They mask this insecurity with vocal fanboy-ism and immaturity. Which takes us right up to present day, this gnome release announcement and the whole KDE vs Gnome trolling thing (which aptly reflects on the caliber of user of this Fisher Price environment).

Sorry guys, but the DE wars are nearly over - and you guys are taking a beating from a combination of the true adoption of many exciting new freedesktop technologies, a desire to look like something other than Windows, and the embracement of Gnome from big business. The funny thing is, this is not looking like changing any time soon, no matter how many of you fanboys decide to get up off your lard butts and flame spatial browsing. Krap!