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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:The important part: Mono by kcbrown · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...or it could kill it, depending on whether or not Mono is vulnerable to patent infringement lawsuits from Microsoft....

    Quite a few people are still nervous about Mono for that reason. I can't say I blame them.

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  2. 5 Year Old 3D features... by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok, considering the 3D features require 5 year old video cards, does this mean we can officially give GNOME the 'boot' and move on to projects that are at least working with respectible interfaces and approaching 3D with modern hardware?

    I read this release several times thinking it was a joke post...

  3. Re:But does it have a useable file-save dialogue? by darkonc · · Score: 1, Troll
    Well, there are things like: If I already know that I want to open /usr/bin/gvim (e.g. in an open-as), there's no easy way to type that in ... I have to click my way to that directory -- and when it goes to open /usr/bin, I have to wait 30 seconds for it to stat the entire freaking directory then go hunting in that massive directory for a file who'se name I already knew a minute ago.
    so:
    1: let me type in the name of the file I want (including path name)(It looks like they may have done that)

    As somebody else mentioned, If I don't want to save in 'the usual places', I have to click on the 'I want some more' button to get dialogues which could have easily fit in all of that dead space... my other gripe is that the 'extra' directories don't give any indication of their path -- so if I have /tmp and ~/tmp as common saving places, there's no way to tell them apart, besides trial and error.
    2: a popup with the full path would be nice.

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  4. Gnome is dead, Patrick Volkerding confirms by muftak · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even slackware doesn't ship with it anymore.