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GNOME 2.16 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the upgrade dept.

Kethinov writes "The GNOME Project has just released version 2.16 of their popular *nix desktop environment. Among many snazzy new features, is lots of new eye candy, including an experimental compositer in Metacity, feature enhancements, usability improvements, and much, much more. Ars Technica has a review."

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  1. Re:Probably that you're running Ubuntu, like me. by Hikaru79 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not a coincidence that Ubuntu's release cycle is the same as Gnome's -- six months. That's the defining feature of a new Ubuntu release: a new Gnome release. It was especially designed to be this way.

    So to answer your question, 2.16 will be in Edgy. And 2.18 will be in whatever comes after Edgy. And so on.

  2. The important part: Mono by kestasjk · · Score: 5, Informative

    This release is very important because Mono is now a dependency! This single move pretty much moves Mono from an interesting project into mainstream OSS.

    As a C# fan, and knowing how much of a pain GTK was in C, I think this is a very good move. KDE has always had a better API, official Mono support with GTK reverses that! This could really clear up GNOME, and the Linux desktop generally.

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    1. Re:The important part: Mono by benplaut · · Score: 5, Informative

      Regardless, it is still an accepted standard (ISO/IEC 23270)

  3. Re:Here's another problem with Gnome branding by Medieval_Gnome · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not quite that bad. When accessing these programs from the menu they *do* have the simple names you were hoping for.

    Totem is 'Movie Player'
    Baobab is 'Disk Usage Analyzer'
    Alacarte seems to be 'Menu Layout', although Ubuntu might have changed something here.
    Tomboy is unfortunately 'Tomboy notes'

    So overall they've managed to use fairly clear and simple names for these programs, much as you were hoping for.

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