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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:candy by Jake73 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I basically agree with this, but think the developers should find some real designer talent to bring it about. For example, the screenshots are horrible. They took window shots, then faded the borders to white, then added a drop shadow. If you can't tell that this doesn't look right, you're in the wrong league.

    Don't fade borders if you're compositing a complete window. Faded borders are the graphical equivalent of an ellipsis.

    And definitely don't add a drop shadow to something you've already faded to white. It looks ridiculous.

  2. Re:But does it have a useable file-save dialogue? by Crayon+Kid · · Score: 4, Interesting
    [..]I have to wait 30 seconds for it to stat the entire freaking directory[..]
    This that's bad? Get this: over my many years of using Linux, my ~/ has quite a lot of dot files and entries in it. The file picker opens in my home dir, of course, so every bloody time I open it it stats all those hidden files. The punch line? It doesn't even show them! It's all for nothing!
    --
    i ate crayons when i was a kid and now i have two braincells and the blue ones taste nicer
  3. Yet STILL... by DeathAndTaxes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    STILL we gnome faithful are saddled with having only one desktop picture for all workspaces. This became ridiculous at gnome 2.10, IMO. Gnome devs still say they are all for the spatial paradigm (which I like, btw), yet they miss the opportunity to use different desktop pics for each workspace, which would make each workspace...different (wait for it) spatially.

    (I still use gnome every day.) ;-)