A Look at GNOME 2.14 602
An anonymous reader writes "Gnome has a nice preview of their newest version 2.14 posted which should be hitting the streets around the 15th of March. From the article: "As well as new features and more polish, developers have been working around the clock to squeeze more performance out of the most commonly used applications and libraries. This is a review of some of the most shiny work that has gone into the upcoming GNOME release."
Re:Coral Cache Link (Score:5, Funny)
Kall me krazy, or just konfused, but I kan't konceive klicking to another desktop. Kount me out.
Biggest change: (Score:4, Funny)
I think... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Biggest change: (Score:3, Funny)
The File menu has simply been integrated into the Edit menu. The Edit menu was then dropped.
Re:I think... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Biggest change: (Score:5, Funny)
Beware the Ides of March! (Score:3, Funny)
Et tu, Bill?
The most usable UI (Score:2, Funny)
Unfortunately the half terabyte of AI this requires also makes this the fattest gnome ever.
Re:Program Naming (Score:3, Funny)
That's why I don't push Ubuntu or Kubuntu; I use the specific releases like Warty Warthog, Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger or Dapper Drake. Oops, that's The Dapper Drake.
Re:The Linux desktop is finally coming into it's o (Score:5, Funny)
- Criticize GNOME, its developers and its users
- Criticize KDE, its developers and its users
- Bash Microsoft.
- Make obligatory jokes about russia, etc..
Thank you for attention.
Re:The Linux desktop is finally coming into it's o (Score:2, Funny)
"I for one welcome our.. polite..." nah.
"All your politeness belongs " - argh, no.
This outburst of civility is killing slashdot, I tell you!
Re:Biggest change: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Naming (Score:3, Funny)
But yeah, naming is getting far out. For example, their new configuration manager is called "Pessulus". I don't know what that means and I'm afraid to find out.
Re:It's no Vista though (Score:3, Funny)
As opposed to Vista, which is running stable and polished on your desktop?
Re:Progress! (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously, because malloc() doesn't start with a G. And to think, they could have easily sped up their allocator years ago just by doing:
#define gWhateverTheirAllocatorIsCalled malloc
Re:Where's an integrated spellcheck? (Score:1, Funny)
It *sounds* like you're a KDE user, so why don't you enable the spell-checker if you think it is so useful?