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GNOME 2.24 Released

Posted by timothy on from the ekiga-has-the-best-screenshots dept.

thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.

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  1. Gnome is too heavy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Interestingly enough, I just switched to Xfce yesterday.

  2. Re:What is left for them to do? by abigor · · Score: 0, Troll

    My favourite is the terminal cursor. I was stuck on shitty Gnome at work, and the default terminal cursor is a blinking block. I prefer a non-blinking underscore, so I went into the terminal app's preferences to change it. Guess what - you can't. Eventually, I found a place in the general desktop config to change the cursor from blinking to non-blinking, but it affects the WHOLE desktop, not just the terminal! And I was still stuck with a block instead of an underscore.

    So I spent the time to rip the whole thing out and install KDE 4.1, which has proper configurability. Now I have my non-blinking underscore...ahh.

  3. Re:Catching up ever so slowly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sad but true. Linux desktops seem a lot like NT4 desktop with some extra bling, they do not compare with the huge update that was Win2000. Lots of that functionality is just not present yet.

  4. Re:Catching up ever so slowly by Tangent128 · · Score: 0, Troll

    So how is that UI consistency?

  5. Re:Catching up ever so slowly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, I think you forgot to take your focusin. Windows 95 already knew how to hide panels and look like itself. Gnome is at Windows 3.0 level.