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GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010

Posted by Soulskill on from the ready-when-it's-ready dept.

supersloshy writes "Contrary to popular opinion, GNOME 3 will not be released in March next year. It has been delayed until September 2010, six months later. According to the news message, this is because 'our community wants GNOME 3.0 to be fully working for users and why we believe September is more appropriate.' GNOME 3's main goal is to re-define the ways people interact with the desktop, mainly through a new UI design (currently called 'GNOME Shell'), while GNOME 2.30, set for release in March, will have a focus on being stable. An early visual tour of GNOME 3 has been posted at Digitizor."

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  1. ...this is because...and why... by anglophobe_0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    for POST in $(cat slashdot); do
    beGrammarNazi $POST
    done

    I couldn't resist.

  2. Fire the whole team by boudie2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until then the Gnome developers can just keep using their Apple laptops running OS X, as that seems to be all they ever to write about. Makes me wonder if they even use Gnome. In the meantime, I'll be sticking to Fluxbox. While they keep making things for Joe Average (who won't use Linux).

  3. Re:Go Fuck Yourself by vagabond_gr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks for your deep insights, I am now convinced that the Gnome people should listen to anonymous trolls like you to make their decisions.

  4. Re:Leave well alone! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't worry, when it flops they can release Gnome 7.

    wait..

  5. Re:WTH by Rhapsody+Scarlet · · Score: 5, Funny

    I respect that they're aiming for stability (quite different from what KDE did), but I'm not sure I like the direction their UI is going. I'll probably hop to KDE or LXDE.

    So it's finally happened. After months of "I hate where KDE is going with KDE 4, I'm switching to GNOME!", now it's GNOME that's making unpopular changes and people are saying "I hate where GNOME is going with GNOME 3, I'm switching to KDE!".