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Gnome 2.14 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hooray-for-shortiez dept.

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."

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  1. What features did they remove this time? by tytso · · Score: 0, Troll

    So given that this is a new release of GNOME, which means that each release has to have less functionality than the previous one, so it can be "easy to use", the obvious question to ask is, "What got left on the cutting room floor this time?"

  2. Re:DRM to be used in GNOME's multimedia backend by billybob2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...blinded with rage and flinging FUD around like mad dancing monkeys.

    Heh, funny that you mentioned monkeys flinging FUD. It is the Ximian primates (yes, they call themselves that) who are spreading FUD against KDE and paying Google to display GNOME sites when people are searching for KDE applications.

    Nevermind the fact that other desktops are using gstreamer, it's GNOME's (got it?) multimedia backend.

    Care to name which? KDE is building a backend-independent multimedia framework called Phonon which will be ready by the release of KDE4. This framework will allow KDE-based multimedia apps:

    Kaffeine
    AmaroK
    KMPlayer

    to work well with backends such as Xine, which are GPLed and which have copyleft protection against DRM. GNOME, on the other hand, is stuck with DRM-crippled GStreamer.

  3. How much more dumbed down is it now? by mrmeval · · Score: 0, Troll

    It was so unusable I switched to KDE. I've not missed guhnome.

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