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Fedora 16 Alpha Released

Posted by Unknown on from the put-a-feather-in-my-red-hat dept.

AdamWill writes "Fedora 16 Alpha is released today, featuring GNOME 3.1.4 with a unified input indicator for keyboard layouts and input methods, KDE 4.7, GRUB 2 on new installations (with GPT disk labels) and several other major changes. You can download it now. Remember to read the important information in the release notes and common bugs page."

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  1. Firefox 16 by ikkebra · · Score: 5, Funny

    I first read this as Firefox 16 Alpha Released and it still made sense.

    1. Re:Firefox 16 by Baloroth · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah, thats not for a few weeks yet. I think.

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      "None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
  2. Really? by neiras · · Score: 4, Informative

    I upgraded to Fedora 15 (from 13) and was so horrified by Gnome 3 that I immediately installed Debian so I could use Gnome 2. Even the "classic Gnome" option is still unusable.

    You do realize that GNOME 3 Classic Mode only has a few user facing differences from GNOME 2, right?

    1. You have to hold ALT when right clicking the panels in order to customize them. No more by-mistake applet moves.
    2. Panels now allow you to snap widgets to the center. New feature!
    3. There are fewer available panel applets, because the API changed. No more CORBA.
    4. The unified System Settings dialog replaces the System menu. I miss the old Preferences but can live with this.

    I have a GNOME 3 desktop that is practically identical to my old GNOME 2 desktop. Having changed the GTK theme from the black Adwaita theme, it even looks like GNOME 2.

    Fallback mode pretty much *is* GNOME 2. I really don't get what all the bitching is about. Surely a few missing panel applets and a unified settings dialog aren't reasons to discard a desktop environment.

    1. Re:Really? by mattventura · · Score: 5, Insightful

      1. You have to hold ALT when right clicking the panels in order to customize them. No more by-mistake applet moves.

      How the hell is that at all intuitive or good UI design? In other applications, even on windows, you right click the toolbar to customize it. And what was wrong with the "lock to panel" option for applets?