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Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16
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."
From the changelog:
Second is support for Microsoft Exchange's MAPI protocol. This is the protocol that Microsoft Outlook uses to communicate with Exchange. Previously, Evolution only supported Exchange's SOAP protocol, which is not available on all Exchange servers. This support significantly improves Evolution's integration with Exchange servers.
That sounds like a big deal. Anyone knows how well it actually works in practice?
They're nice. Especially as someone who use KDE, it allows me to easily see what's happening in that part of the world.
the gnome file manager also has an awesome bar like firefox now!
Per application volume control is a MAJOR feature. Listening to music, while not having web pages blast out your ear drums is a major win. This is my favorite feature of Vista, and I am happy to see it integrated into Gnome.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
And I'm anticipating similar functionality appearing in Kontact really soon... this sort of friendly competition makes Open Source progress so fast.
Want to hear the voice of GOD? cat
Having used both KDE and GNOME (along with Xfce and fvwm-crystal) I don't really feel like GNOME is lacking in customization options. While it obviously has less than KDE does, it doesn't feel like it, and everything I felt like customizing either had a pre-made theme or I could do it with the GUI. People always seem to criticize GNOME on its customization, but I don't feel like it is any less configurable than KDE, Xfce, fvwm and even Windows. What features did the old screen saver menu have that the new one does not? Because having just taken a look on it (Using Ubuntu 8.10) I can't find an option that isn't there that I would use.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Can I put a different wallpaper on different desktops yet? That's the main feature I miss from KDE when I use Gnome (I tend to have different versions of the same code open on different desktops, so a visual queue as to which one I'm looking at really helps).
If you had read T linked FA - fat chance on /., but still - or even if you knew a thing or two about Qt, it would have saved you from making a lame comment.
First: Qt is not just a widget library. It's a full framework that goes well beyond putting things on screens.
Second: What he did modify had nothing to do with widgets. K3b used a KProcess class that employed piping of I/O. In KDE4, that wraps QProcess, which is too high-level for the kind of data-passing throughput required by dvd burning, so he had the class re-written. Yes, the article title is lame (as is its rehashing by the GP post) - forking a class is nothing nearly like forking a framework - but its absurdity should have triggered curiosity instead of look-at-me-I'm-smart comments missing the point.