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A Look at GNOME 2.14

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-new-toys dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gnome has a nice preview of their newest version 2.14 posted which should be hitting the streets around the 15th of March. From the article: "As well as new features and more polish, developers have been working around the clock to squeeze more performance out of the most commonly used applications and libraries. This is a review of some of the most shiny work that has gone into the upcoming GNOME release."

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  1. Re:Biggest change: by quantum+bit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Silly FUD. The Edit menu is still available if you edit your gnome.prefs to include the line "UseMenuThatShallNotBeNamedBecauseItHasBeenDeclare dBad=1" in the "StupidAnachronisms" section.

    Somebody mod +10 So True

  2. Yeah but... by Senzei · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ...it can't hold a candle to KDE for configuration. I mean, why would I want all these Gnome developers making choices for me? Seriously, they have a foot for their project icon, what kind of design sensibility comes up with that?

    Dance my pretties, dance.

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  3. Re:Program Naming by Linker3000 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I am *so* with you on this:

    "Also in the new Admin Suite is Sabayon. This powerful tool allows administrators to create profiles for groups of users"

    Under W*nd*ws, this would be called the 'Group Profile Creator' and everyone would be happy AND would recognise what the tool did when they tripped over it.

    Those at the core of the Linux development world need to recognize that the names they choose can actually hinder adoption of their creations. I'm still uncomfortable promoting 'Kubuntu' to the board and I do not look forward to the day someone needs a graphical editor (GIMP) - it was bad enough moving our Web site to Joomla!

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