GNOME 2.30, End of the (2.x) Line

stovicek writes "GNOME 2.30 was originally intended to coincide with GNOME 3.0 — a massive cleanup and rethinking of the popular desktop. However, GNOME 3.0 is delayed for at least another release, which leaves GNOME 2.30 as most likely the last version in a series stretching back almost a decade. [...] 2.30 will probably be the final version of the 2.0 series. For those who were around for GNOME 2.0 back in 2000, the 2.30 release stands as evidence of how far GNOME in general and the free desktop in particular have come in the last decade in usability and design. If you do a search for images of early GNOME releases and compare the results with 2.30, you can have no doubt that, although GNOME sometimes tends to over-simplify, its improvements over the last decade remain unmistakable."

Comments

Re:Stop ignoring my posts.

[lolwhat]

Is this some kind of reverse psychology? Well it will never work.

Re:First for the first time!

[sayfawa]

Good thing you didn't waste it.

I got first post once, but I didn't even say "first post" or any other misspelled incarnation of it, as I assumed (incorrectly) that someone else would have gotten it by the time my comment went up.

But there it was, at the top of the pile.

Now, when I hear someone say they have no regrets in life, I can only sigh and sadly look down at my feet.

Re:Sounds like a KDE-type cleanup

[MrHanky]

Looks like it over-stupidified your comment as well. Tough luck!

Re:Not the same stuff - much worse!

[Anonymous Coward]

2010 is the year of GNUstep on the desktop!

Re:early gnome

[Anonymous Coward]

If Gnome 1.4 were compatible with modern software (both directions: modern versions of the software it requires, like libraries, and, going the other way, modern versions of applications), I'd still be using it. It was good. I have no idea why they decided to screw it up so much.

Maybe it's a case of the second system effect or maybe Miguel was already getting Swiss bank account deposits from Microsoft. :-)