GNOME 2.16 Released

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."

Comments

Re:But does it have a useable file-save dialogue?

[darkonc]

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.