A Look at GNOME 2.14

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

[47F0]

Gnope. Gnot doing it. Gnot today, Gnot tomorrow.

Kall me krazy, or just konfused, but I kan't konceive klicking to another desktop. Kount me out.

Biggest change:

[Musteval]

The "File" menu has been disabled in all programs. GNOME proponents stated that the change is to ensure that end users "aren't confused by all of the big words, like 'exit' and 'print.'" The Edit menu has been removed in most programs.

I think...

[sheepoo]

it's sexy

Re:Biggest change:

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

That NOT true!

The File menu has simply been integrated into the Edit menu. The Edit menu was then dropped.

Re:I think...

[SpinJaunt]

foot fetishist?

Re:Biggest change:

[timster]

Silly FUD. The Edit menu is still available if you edit your gnome.prefs to include the line "UseMenuThatShallNotBeNamedBecauseItHasBeenDeclare dBad=1" in the "StupidAnachronisms" section.

Beware the Ides of March!

[dumbnose]

Didn't anyone tell them that this is a dangerous day for this?

Et tu, Bill?

The most usable UI

[Anonymous Coward]

On the principle that users hate choices, here's the new Gnome with the fewest options ever. The entire UI has been stripped except for two huge, beautifully rendered buttons in the middle of the screen. The red one says "on|off", and the green says "DWIM".

Unfortunately the half terabyte of AI this requires also makes this the fattest gnome ever.

Re:Program Naming

[fossa]

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

[brainnolo]

Your post does not meet /. guidelines. To meet the guidelines you should either:

- 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

[JanneM]

Um, "In Russia, people are being polite to you". No.

"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:

[TrancePhreak]

I think you mean the applecation menu. Huzzah!

Re:Naming

[ScrewMaster]

I've been sick for the past five days and I need a good laugh. Thanks for that!

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

[pherthyl]

Xorg composite still crashes for me frequently.

As opposed to Vista, which is running stable and polished on your desktop?

Re:Progress!

[pchan-]

Call me crazy, but why bother coding it then? Isn't the trusted stability and consistency of glibc malloc() worth more than a minor speed increase?

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?

[Anonymous Coward]

integarted...

It *sounds* like you're a KDE user, so why don't you enable the spell-checker if you think it is so useful? ;)