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Gnome 2.14 Released
joe_bruin writes "Beware the Ides of March... the Gnome people have announced the release of Gnome 2.14, right on time to meet their 6 month release schedule. See what's new in this release, as well as the release notes. New features include many more searching options, fast user switching, and speed increases to all the apps you know and love." From the release notes: "Just as you would tune your car, our skilled engineers have strived to tune many parts of GNOME to be as fast as possible. Several important components of the GNOME desktop are now measurably faster, including text rendering, memory allocation, and numerous individual applications. Faster font rendering and memory allocation benefit all GNOME and GTK+ based applications without the need for recompilation. Some applications have received special attention to make sure they are performing at their peak."
Yeah, but can I run it under Cygwin on XP on an Intel iMac?
This guy's the limit!
Dude, the Ides of March is, like, so yesterday.
Gnome vs KDE flamewar starting in... 5...4...3...2...1...GO!!!
Well, to 2.14 is closer to 10.4 than 2.13. I wouldn't say the metric is false.
.\.\att Clare
Does it still have the menu on top and taskbar on the bottom?
Takes up too much screen real estate.
You wouldn't have ever right clicked on the panel and seen an items marked "New Panel" and "Delete this panel", would you? You can have as few (say, zero) or as many panels as you like, drag them to any edge you like, stack more than one on any edge too if you like.
I personally like to take advantage of my large 800x600 monitors and have panels stacked five deep on every edge of my two monitors, so I can have one widget per panel. BTW has anyone else noticed how unusable slashdot is when the browser window is 300x200? You'd think they'd be more careful to test it on typical configurations like mine.
Tha journal entry contains some excellent points that are well made.
But I am in a childish mood so must point out that you seem to be missing the entire raison d'etre of the GNOME desktop.
That is that a user should be able to control their entire computer simply by allowing a large drop of drool to fall from their mouth onto a special pressure sensitive pad. By allowing drool to fall from the left side of their mouth they will have "left drooled" on the selected object. Similarly by allowing drool to fall from the right side of their mouth they will have "right drooled" on the selected object
This will provide all the feature they need to work with the single file held in their home directory (further subdirectories and fiels having been banned as it "breaks the spatial paradigm" and "causes the user confusion")
Can you tell I'm not a fan?
oh no! Just when I got compiled Gentoo from stage1 on x86_64 and Gentoo current... 2.12, just my bad luck... Well I have to start compilers again and resolve the depencies... huoh...
-Seeing the problem is ½ of solution-
When I saw the first post calling Gnome an OSX ripoff, I started thinking, "Gee, I wonder what parts of OSX this guy could possibly think were ripped off by Gnome? Particularly with the restriction that they weren't ripped off by OSX in the first place?"
But now it all makes sense. The poster obviously was under the impression that Apple invented multiuser environments and indexed searches.
So, he's just an idiot; nothing to see here.
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