A Preview of Ximian's Gnome 2.0 Desktop

TweetZilla writes "Dennis Powell has a good preview of Ximian's newest desktop. But does anybody care at this point? How many people still use Ximian's desktop? As opposed to Evolution?"

I'd forgotten...

[Ponty]

I'd totally forgotten that they rebranded Gnome. I tried it when it first came out, but it didn't really offer anything that the 'normal' Gnome didn't do just as well (which isn't saying much.)

I still use it

[bwalling]

I like Ximian, and I like KDE. I find it easier to install Ximian, so I tend to use it. I don't want to go messing with all the RPM dependencies to get KDE going on my RedHat system. Ximian does it for my in a GUI wizard. Call me an idiot if you want.

confusing

[Boromir son of Faram]

I like GNOME well enough, but I get confused by their rapidly changing terminology. For example, this writeup makes it sound like Evolution and Ximian are two competing "desktops," but I thought Ximian was a company and Evolution was a file manager.

Actually, I'm not even sure what a "desktop" is. I used to think it was anything behind the application windows, but now I'm wondering...does it have to have icons on it? Does Blackbox have a desktop?

Gnome has been lost for nearly an Age, and now I fear that it is emerging again as a force of great strength.

Still very useful and interesting to me at least.

[StarTux]

Yes I really like KDE 3.1, but you can only do so much to an environment to get a different experience.

StarTux

Probably quite a few

[Mr_Person]

Well, considering that Ximian is the only easily installable version of the GNOME desktop (unless you stick with what comes default with your distro), I would say probably quite a few. And Evolution is a mail client, so that comparison doesn't make much sense.

File Dialog...

[ElGuapoGolf]

Can anyone tell me if they've fixed the file chooser dialog? If they haven't, they have 2 options...

(1) Fix the file chooser dialog. It's horrible. I've used DOS applications from the 80s which had better faux file chooser dialogs. QT 1.x had a better file chooser box.

(2) Give up. They haven't gotten it fixed yet, when will they.

Seriously, it's horrible. I've never had to interact with such a horribly designed file chooser box as much as I do because I use evolution. I love how when you change directories; the filename of whatever you're trying to save disappears. Great feature guys.

Seriously. Give me something with a "up a level button". And put the directories and files in one window, with "icons" so I can tell the difference between the two.

Re:Free?

[Anonymous Coward]

How is this different from using Visual Studio? Plus, the rates for Qt are really not that bad anyway.

And if you're smart, you'll use the GPL or a quasi-open license which prevents your clients from giving out the code but lets them use it for whatever they wish.