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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."
gnome is teh suck... who cares? spatial file management? pshaw! netcraft confirms that with this latest release of diarrheal vomitous "software," gnome is dead! now when kde 4 comes out, that will be newsworthy!
"2) Gnome is not attempting to copy os x, but create a new desktop environment. So your metric (closer to Mac OS) is a false one."
Your metric of being a douchebag is a true one.
FiGZ.COM - A waste of perfectly good web space
KPDF has an option to enable reading DRMed files but I dont hear anyone complaining about that.
KPDF is licensed under the GNU General Public License, and benefits from the GPL's strong copyleft protection. Therefore, the user will always have access to the KPDF source code (including any DRM components), allowing the user can remove the DRM and be left with a fully-functional PDF viewer.
This is less than can be said about GStreamer's plugins, which are proprietary and closed-source in order to prevent users from modifying them (ie. removing the DRM and being left with a functional plugin). GStreamer, being licensed as LGPL, allows proprietary and closed-source plugins to link to it, while KPDF, being licensed as GPL, does not. That's the fundamental difference, and that's why the Free Software Foundation warns against using the LGPL for any project.
Aaron Seigo, a lead KDE developer, has written extensively on this: DRM + source code = no DRM
Oh, and you can turn off the KPDF DRM at compile time and by unchecking "Obey DRM limitations" in Settings->Configure KPdf->General.
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?"
...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.
It was so unusable I switched to KDE. I've not missed guhnome.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty