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GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010
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."
80% percent of the tour looks like stuff in the current gnome. I mean we already have a NetworkManager and you already get a calendar when you click on the clock.
Virtual desktops get more recognition. The UI is more modal and Mac like. So what if their default configuration has just the one panel? Thats how I configure it anyway.
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"Gnome3 looks unusable anyways"
I just switched to Ubuntu 9.10 it has been ok. Very rough, buggy, and unpolished compared to Windows but I really wanted to soldier on.
Seeing this Gnome 3 garbage just makes me want to throw my hands up and go right back to Windows.
Something is very, very wrong with the Gnome developers to have them honestly thinking this fiasco of an effort is going to attract anyone but the most diehard of existing Linux users.
Grow the fuck Gnome devs. No one wants yet another retarded attempt at 'reinventing' the desktop. It's a solved problem. People have work to do with their computers. Gnome 3 is nothing but juvinille wanking.
Try GNOME Do.
The "Docky" frontend is a fantastic dock experience as well.
Mono is a cancer.
You're looking for Katapult. And you know what - that was probably the first (or one of the first) apps of such kind.
Linux needs this
Most Linux desktop environments have this. The default in Gnome is to use to pop up a run dialogue, that will autocomplete recently used apps. I configured the same thing in openbox, with lxpanel.
1.) Install Gentoo Linux
2.) USE="-alsa -cups -dbus -gstreamer -kde -gnome -mono -opengl" emerge xfce4-meta firefox terminal openoffice eclipse-sdk
I am aware that xfce4-meta contains unneccessary cruft but you should be able to deal with it.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
The new GUI is not based on Mono, it's based on JavaScript and GObjectIntrospection.
In KDE4 I so exactly the same. Hit the KDE icon, I menu pops up. I enter 'fire' and hit enter. I enter 'wo' and hit enter for OpenOffice.org Word. Linux have this for about 1 year now, since KDE4 came up. What's more convenient, I can setup any hot key I want for any application. For example, Win+W is Firefox, Win+F is file manager, Win+C is calculator and so on. There is more. Hit Alt+F2 and you get the KRunner, which you can use the same way as the menu I described before. And you can use it as a calculator, to open a location and more.
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If the GUI changes aren't controversial enough the fact that it is based on Mono will probably kill it.
How is it based on Mono? It uses Javascript.
Stop spreading FUD please.
Gnome 3.0 is not based upon Mono. It's still the 'old' C/glib framework. No Mono. Get your facts straight and stop spreading FUD. Who moderated that 'insightful'?
Except that it isn't. According the GnomeShell page on Gnome Live, "Much of the code of the shell is written in Javascript and Clutter and GNOME platform libraries via GObject Introspection and JavaScript bindings for GNOME."
GObject Introspection is actually quite cool IMO, it makes it much easier to create bindings from dynamic languages libraries that use GObject, like the GNOME platform, GStreamer, etc.
I noticed filesystems on MacFUSE have a greater tendency to crash, actually. Makes it quite frustrating to use for long periods of time.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Can you please explain why? I wrote a plugin for Gnome-Do last summer and found the code refreshingly simple and easy to grok. I'm a hard core C/Perl/Java coder, and I really like some of the features of C#, such as the in-line properties for accessors/mutators. The dbus hooks into Mono are first-class citizens, and MUCH easier to use than their C counterparts. Apart from the "omg a Microsoft engineer designed it" knee-jerk reaction, what is the complaint with Mono?
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
$( ) and back-ticks does the same thing