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Gnome 2.14 Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tiny-little-feet dept.

An anonymous user writes "Linux.com (a Slashdot sister site) has up a review of Gnome 2.14. The piece touches on usability improvements, as well as the new administration and configuration tools included with this release." From the article: "GNOME 2.14 continues the steady improvement visible in the last few releases. It is an incremental upgrade, consisting largely of tweaks and the filling in of gaps in functionality. If few of these changes are major by themselves, the overall result is welcome. Perhaps the best way of looking at the release is not as an end in itself, but as a milestone on the road to desktop usability in free operation systems. From this perspective, GNOME 2.14 is a sign that much of the journey is already over -- and that the remaining distance is less than many observers think."

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  1. Dupe ? by alexhs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seems the linked linux.com article is little more than a summary of the GNOME Release Notes linked from the yesterday's "story"... :(

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  2. Re:It's faster? by L'homme+de+Fromage · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have to say that this is an interesting test. I did your test with mrxvt 0.4.2 (a tabbed rxvt) and gnome-terminal 2.10.0 on FC4, using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8 pt anti-aliased font in both (yes, mrxvt can do anti-aliasing with TrueType fonts, if compiled with the -xft option). The results:

    mrxvt -xft -xftaa -xftfn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" -xftsz 8
    real 0m2.844s
    user 0m0.003s
    sys 0m0.058s

    gnome-terminal
    real 0m8.725s
    user 0m0.004s
    sys 0m0.053s

    This is on a 3GHz P4 system. I don't have gnome-terminal 2.12.0 installed like you do, so I can believe that it might be a second or two faster than 2.10.0. But mrxvt is still faster. I had transparency turned off in both cases. With transparency turned on in mrxvt the time went up slightly, to 0m3.033s.

  3. Re:It's faster? by Carmac_Sucks · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I tried your test with gnome terminal 2.14 and here is what I got.

    mrxvt -xft -xftaa -xftfn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" -xftsz 8 (0.4.2)
    real 0m0.205s
    user 0m0.000s
    sys 0m0.068s

    gnome-terminal (2.14)

    real 0m1.616s
    user 0m0.000s
    sys 0m0.072s

    It's really amazing how fast mrxvt is in this case. Transpanrency in both were off.

    Here is a screenshot.

    http://img482.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mrxvtvers usgnome5vi.png