According to the Insomniac guys on the latest ListenUP podcast their favorite subtitle for the game internally was "Ratchet & Clank: Clock Blockers". Too bad Sony legal didn't like that.:-(
Anyway, people interested in this game should also checkout the weapons contest, it's pretty cool.
The GNOME project never shipped Mono.
What it ships is GTK#, a set of bindings for the.NET platform. In theory it should work on top of Mono, DotGNU or Microsoft's own.NET implementation. GNOME also ships bindings for many other languages (C++, Perl, Python, etc).
The GNOME desktop includes one application that uses GTK#, a note taking panel applet (tomboy). It's an optional module that you are free to skip if you want (Debian doesn't install it by default, for example).
Have you ever used Ubuntu at all?
The only toolkit installed by default is GTK+. Sure, Qt and others are available, just like they're available for Mac OS X and Windows.
There are a few problems with this release that I hope will be fixed in the future (I can only hope, since it's not open source yet).
The plugin will search for libssl.so and libasound.so; that's broken. They should dlopen the actual library or build it statically, but a hack like that is certainly going to cause problems. (btw, in Ubuntu/Debian you need the libssl-dev and libasound2-dev packages to use all the features of this plugin).
The most annoying bugs I had with Flash (believe it or not) are still there. If the mouse is hovering a Flash content inside a browser window, the browser won't recognize keyboard or even mouse events. This is annoying when you're scrolling through a page with Flash ads or when you want to Ctrl+L but the damn mouse is in the wrong place.
The other problem is that Flash ads that have the "point your mouse here to see the full ad" will always display the "full ad", and you have to choose between the Flash Block extension and not reading that damn page at all.
Debian never wanted to go unofficial, they did so to comply with the DFSG. The Mozilla Foundation was aware that they were doing that, and they authorized Debian. Until recently, when the Mozilla Corporation changed their minds and filed a bug against Debian.
Gnome barely existed when Windows 98 was released, so it's not an exactly fair comparison. You might want to compare Windows 98 with fvwm95, which was the default environment in Red Hat Linux 5.x.
That's not the real story. In fact it's a bogus story that omits a very important detail, which is that Debian had permission from Mozilla (Gervase Markham) to use the Firefox branding the way they were using it.
See the bug report for the real story:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3 54622
Debian is not picking anything here. In fact, it's Mozilla that is changing the previous agreement they had with Debian.
Debian simply can't ship the Firefox logo unless they "bend" the DFSG like Mike Connor suggested. Well, they've chosen not to do that and are moving on with it.
The world has learned that the US is willing to bomb any country to go after its natural resources, and Brazil is very rich in natural resources. For example, it has 12% of the world's drinking water.
For the meantime we avoided talking about shadows as the free software tools lack in that area and we are still using workarounds, rather than proper solutions to provide object shadows. Once the free software stack catches up (Inkscape mainly, coming real soon), I'll add a section on shadows.
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What's funny is that GNOME pretty much ripped off the Mac OS X dialog (which is not a bad thing at all), and not once have I read a complaint against Apple on Slashdot about their version.
Let's hope real tab completion is back too (but I bet it won't be - I mean, who uses tab completion in these heady GUI days?? *sarcastic grimace*)
You don't need tab completion to provide completion, which is what you want after all. Accessibility is very important to GNOME, and a consistent use of the tab key is an important part of that.
You've always been able to type a location with the Ctrl+L shortcut. With this new version you can have a location bar always enabled (check the release notes for a screenshot).
I'm not sure about the always saving to ~/Desktop thing, as I never had that problem. It's completely application specific though, not GTK+ related.
This is a beta. The button is there so if the GUI installer throws something funny on your face you can hit that button and submit the screenshot with a bug report.
Ubuntu ships proprietary drivers as unsupported, which means it could break them at any upgrade. Obviously they'll try to avoid that, but like you said it's up to the distributors of said drivers if they'll be able to.
The system in many countries prevent a "most hated" candidate from being elected. To get elected, a candidate must have more than 50% of all valid votes. (A valid vote is a vote for a candidate). If that doesn't happen, the two most voted candidates go to a second election, and the one with more votes there wins.
This guarantees that the elected candidate is the one chosen by at least over 50% of the voters who picked a candidate.
The main problem with open source software is that the basis of its development is Because I feel like it, when someone gets bored of doing it they just leave it there.
Do you think it's any different with proprietary software? Microsoft works on what they feel like it. Same with Apple; they're not spending their money to make sure OS X 10.5 works great on the older Macs (one of the complaints here is that not enough people are testing Linux 2.6 on old hardware). Likewise, Red Hat, Novell and others vendors of Linux-based solutions work on what's best for their costumers.
The difference with Free software is that more people get to work on what they feel like working on. And if something's missing all it takes is a developer to change that.
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According to the Insomniac guys on the latest ListenUP podcast their favorite subtitle for the game internally was "Ratchet & Clank: Clock Blockers". Too bad Sony legal didn't like that. :-(
Anyway, people interested in this game should also checkout the weapons contest, it's pretty cool.
Yeah, except that you can't send feedback from that page unless you select a Windows or Mac OS X version.
It's obvious Apple wants people to believe the Macs are the only alternative to Windows ("PCs") that exist.
The GNOME project never shipped Mono. What it ships is GTK#, a set of bindings for the .NET platform. In theory it should work on top of Mono, DotGNU or Microsoft's own .NET implementation. GNOME also ships bindings for many other languages (C++, Perl, Python, etc).
The GNOME desktop includes one application that uses GTK#, a note taking panel applet (tomboy). It's an optional module that you are free to skip if you want (Debian doesn't install it by default, for example).
Have you ever used Ubuntu at all? The only toolkit installed by default is GTK+. Sure, Qt and others are available, just like they're available for Mac OS X and Windows.
We already have one.
g in
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/gcjwebplu
[alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc]
There's the Windows Internet Explorer UI, the Windows Media Player UI, the Windows Mail UI... they're all different.
No.
There are a few problems with this release that I hope will be fixed in the future (I can only hope, since it's not open source yet).
The plugin will search for libssl.so and libasound.so; that's broken. They should dlopen the actual library or build it statically, but a hack like that is certainly going to cause problems. (btw, in Ubuntu/Debian you need the libssl-dev and libasound2-dev packages to use all the features of this plugin).
The most annoying bugs I had with Flash (believe it or not) are still there. If the mouse is hovering a Flash content inside a browser window, the browser won't recognize keyboard or even mouse events. This is annoying when you're scrolling through a page with Flash ads or when you want to Ctrl+L but the damn mouse is in the wrong place.
The other problem is that Flash ads that have the "point your mouse here to see the full ad" will always display the "full ad", and you have to choose between the Flash Block extension and not reading that damn page at all.
Debian never wanted to go unofficial, they did so to comply with the DFSG. The Mozilla Foundation was aware that they were doing that, and they authorized Debian. Until recently, when the Mozilla Corporation changed their minds and filed a bug against Debian.
Gnome barely existed when Windows 98 was released, so it's not an exactly fair comparison. You might want to compare Windows 98 with fvwm95, which was the default environment in Red Hat Linux 5.x.
That's not the real story. In fact it's a bogus story that omits a very important detail, which is that Debian had permission from Mozilla (Gervase Markham) to use the Firefox branding the way they were using it. See the bug report for the real story: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3 54622
s/Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corporation
Debian is not picking anything here. In fact, it's Mozilla that is changing the previous agreement they had with Debian.
Debian simply can't ship the Firefox logo unless they "bend" the DFSG like Mike Connor suggested. Well, they've chosen not to do that and are moving on with it.
The world has learned that the US is willing to bomb any country to go after its natural resources, and Brazil is very rich in natural resources. For example, it has 12% of the world's drinking water.
For the meantime we avoided talking about shadows as the free software
t s/2006-September/000664.html
tools lack in that area and we are still using workarounds, rather than
proper solutions to provide object shadows. Once the free software stack
catches up (Inkscape mainly, coming real soon), I'll add a section on
shadows.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/tango-artis
What's funny is that GNOME pretty much ripped off the Mac OS X dialog (which is not a bad thing at all), and not once have I read a complaint against Apple on Slashdot about their version.
Let's hope real tab completion is back too (but I bet it won't be - I mean, who uses tab completion in these heady GUI days?? *sarcastic grimace*) You don't need tab completion to provide completion, which is what you want after all. Accessibility is very important to GNOME, and a consistent use of the tab key is an important part of that.
You've always been able to type a location with the Ctrl+L shortcut. With this new version you can have a location bar always enabled (check the release notes for a screenshot). I'm not sure about the always saving to ~/Desktop thing, as I never had that problem. It's completely application specific though, not GTK+ related.
This is a beta. The button is there so if the GUI installer throws something funny on your face you can hit that button and submit the screenshot with a bug report.
Perhaps it would have been moderated higher if you listed a few examples of what makes SLED 10 a better experience.
(btw, SLED 10 uses GNOME 2.12).
Ubuntu ships proprietary drivers as unsupported, which means it could break them at any upgrade. Obviously they'll try to avoid that, but like you said it's up to the distributors of said drivers if they'll be able to.
No, but it's Sunday.
You can skip all that with this link: http://www.novell.com/link/6.html
The system in many countries prevent a "most hated" candidate from being elected. To get elected, a candidate must have more than 50% of all valid votes. (A valid vote is a vote for a candidate). If that doesn't happen, the two most voted candidates go to a second election, and the one with more votes there wins. This guarantees that the elected candidate is the one chosen by at least over 50% of the voters who picked a candidate.
Unless you need 3D accell there's nothing wrong with the Free drivers provided by X.org. You're not limited to 640x480 or anything like that.
The main problem with open source software is that the basis of its development is Because I feel like it, when someone gets bored of doing it they just leave it there.
Do you think it's any different with proprietary software? Microsoft works on what they feel like it. Same with Apple; they're not spending their money to make sure OS X 10.5 works great on the older Macs (one of the complaints here is that not enough people are testing Linux 2.6 on old hardware). Likewise, Red Hat, Novell and others vendors of Linux-based solutions work on what's best for their costumers.
The difference with Free software is that more people get to work on what they feel like working on. And if something's missing all it takes is a developer to change that.