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Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16

Posted by timothy on from the small-improvements-add-up dept.

devg writes "The GNOME development community recently announced the official release GNOME 2.26, the latest version of the open source desktop environment for Linux. It adds the Brasero disc burning software, UPnP support in the Totem media player, and basic support for video chat in the Empathy instant messaging client. GNOME 2.26 will be shipped in upcoming Linux distributions, including Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04. Some early reviews show that it is an incremental improvement with some good additions. GNOME 2.26 is accompanied by the release of GTK+ 2.16, a new version of the widget toolkit that is used to build the desktop environment. Ars Technica has published a detailed programming tutorial with code examples that demonstrate how developers can use the new features of GTK+ 2.16 in their own applications. Users can test GNOME 2.26 by downloading one of the official Foresight-based VM or ISO images via BitTorrent."

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  1. Shouldn't you all be watching... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Barack "Teleprompter" "Uncle Tom" Hussein Obama try in vain to prop up his sagging poll numbers tonight? It's alot harder of a job than it looks from the sidelines, isn't it, you inexperienced, incompetent, corrupt motherfucker?

    1. Re:Shouldn't you all be watching... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Shouldn't you all be watching...
      Barack "Teleprompter" "Uncle Tom" Hussein Obama try in vain to prop up his sagging poll numbers tonight?

      As Slashdot is an international site, and I don't give two hoots about Barack Obama, the answer is 'no'.

      I can comprehensively say that I, and I'm sure many others on Slashdot, find a new GNOME release -- particularly one with MAPI support -- far more interesting than the economy of the US. Now take your trolling somewhere people care about such things, one of those right-wing sites for example.

    2. Re:Shouldn't you all be watching... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You fail at reading comprehension.

      Did your father dip his cock in a can of lard before dipping it in your ass this morning?

      My dad's dead.

      My old man was a dustman,
      He wore a dustman's hat,
      He got fucking cancer,
      Now what do you think of that

      My old man was a dustman,
      He had cancer too,
      Silly fucking arsehole,
      He had it up the flue

      He had so much fucking cancer,
      It drove me fucking mad,
      He said "I've got fucking cancer",
      And he was my fucking dad

      Oh, what a boring cunt he was,
      Going on all day,
      About having cancer,
      And being too gone on the way

      Ohhhhhhh ... he had ...
      Cancer in his false teeth,
      Cancer in his wig,
      Cancer in his fucking knob,
      He thought it was fucking big
      His knob was full of cancer,
      The thing nearly fell off
      And worst of all, the worst of it, he had this fucking cough! He went:

      Heurgh! Heurgh!
      Heurgh! Heurgh!
      Heurgh! Heurgh!
      Heurgh! Heurgh!
      Heurrrrrgghhhhh ...

      What a cunt! He kept waking us up at night, this fucking noise! This fucking cough, his fucking cancer! For months we couldn't fucking sleep! I was trying to watch Emmerdale Farm and this fucking cough came on and I couldn't fucking concentrate on a fucking good programme because my old man was dying of this fucking cough ...

      What a Fucking cunt!!!

      I win. Now fuck off. You cunt.

  2. Re:Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the web servers that you nerds use to distribute your TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sights across the world wide web, but the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well and is backed by a major corporation, as opposed to Linux which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere. The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.

  3. Re:awesome bar by AuMatar · · Score: -1, Troll

    Woohoo, yet another reason to use KDE!

    The awesome bar is so bad I moved back to seamonkey, and won't ever consider Firefox again until they start using a normal address bar. Preferably the one from Seamonkey where searching doesn't need a separate and way too small search bar.

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    I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
  4. It's getting better, yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Honestly, who in their right mind would want to use a desktop with a smelly foot sitting on it?

    1. Re:It's getting better, yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Indeed. Linux is only free if your time means nothing.

  5. Re:Why brasero? by X0563511 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you have to modify the widget library to support your program, you are doing something wrong.

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  6. Re:Just not interested by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have fun paying higher energy bills and shaving precious years off the life of your display while you're out getting drunk with your NRA fuckbuddies before returning home to your double-wide and kicking the shit out of your cousin/wife, good sir.