Gnome 2.14 Released 348
joe_bruin writes "Beware the Ides of March... the Gnome people have announced the release of Gnome 2.14, right on time to meet their 6 month release schedule. See what's new in this release, as well as the release notes. New features include many more searching options, fast user switching, and speed increases to all the apps you know and love." From the release notes: "Just as you would tune your car, our skilled engineers have strived to tune many parts of GNOME to be as fast as possible. Several important components of the GNOME desktop are now measurably faster, including text rendering, memory allocation, and numerous individual applications. Faster font rendering and memory allocation benefit all GNOME and GTK+ based applications without the need for recompilation. Some applications have received special attention to make sure they are performing at their peak."
Memory Improvements (Score:4, Informative)
Easiest way to check it out.... (Score:4, Informative)
It's pretty nice! I've been using the pre-releases for a while....
2.16 (Score:5, Informative)
As many gnome devs have argued, changing to 3.0 and breaking compatability would only make sense if there are things that can't be done within the current code base.
Frankly, I have yet to see a reason why breaking compatability would be needed.
Oh, and from using gnome2.14 on dapper I'll have to say that this is a great release. Very polished and some exciting new things, like deskbar with beagle integration. Combine that with the new XGL and AIGLX eye-candy and you really have a winner.
Gnome 2.14 (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/ [gnome.org]
If you're running ubuntu dapper, it updated to 2.14 wednesday. It isn't really immediately distinguishable from the previous version but then, if you are also running xgl/compiz, who the hell cares?
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=916 [tectonic.co.za]
-rcmiv
HA! HA! I have the cube!
GLib == good (Score:5, Informative)
And if it helps you, please buy my completely unrelated book [pmdapplied.com]!
Main point of this release (Score:5, Informative)
That should make things much snappier.
2.14? (Score:2, Informative)
I just upgraded to 2.12.2. I have to admit that I have noticed a significant performance improvement, especially when compared to KDE.
I look forward to this release.
Re:Gnome Terminal speed improvements (Score:1, Informative)
Try Konsole instead. Not only does the text scroll faster and smoother, but the interface just feels better than Gnome Terminal.
Re:Eye Candy (Score:5, Informative)
No.
1) You're thinking of the new gl effects in xorg x clients. This is a desktop environment release.
2) Gnome is not attempting to copy os x, but create a new desktop environment. So your metric (closer to Mac OS) is a false one.
Re:Glad to see menu editing has been fixed (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Main point of this release (Score:5, Informative)
Given a particular usage pattern, for example majority allocation of blocks > 512 bytes with a higher fragmentation ratio than would be acceptable in a server, you could technically outpace the malloc which would waste more time to find a best fit versus an algorithm that just finds you 512 byte blocks when you needed 4 bytes of memory.
Assumptions simplify algorithms, so is it a surprise ?
FC5's release pushed back 5 days (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Glad to see menu editing has been fixed (Score:3, Informative)
Wait - I'm being handed a message Parent must be trolling [gnome.org] as a menu editor has been included since Gnome 2.12
Oh - and that page includes the line:
Re:FC5's release pushed back 5 days (Score:3, Informative)
Re:2.14? (Score:4, Informative)
And if you can't wait for two days and don't mind a few bugs, you could emerge 2.13.92 from the breakmygentoo overlay...
Re:"I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stu (Score:1, Informative)
KDE Fanboy misrepresents facts. (Score:3, Informative)
The "KDE, on the other hand, cures all diseases, ends war and farts kittens" speech is just the same tired fanboi ranting. KPDF has an option to enable reading DRMed files but I dont hear anyone complaining about that. Facts suck, dont they?
Re:de/up/grade (Score:4, Informative)
From the Ubuntu website [ubuntu.com]:
"The installer may not be GUI, but you only ever need to use it once, because we support ongoing upgrades via the network, from version to version. You never need to reinstall the operating system, just upgrade from each released version to the next when you want to."
At the most you should only have to reboot biannually... to use the new kernel that comes with each new Ubuntu release.
Re:Cut out the hype, GNOME (Score:3, Informative)
It's great! (Score:3, Informative)
At first I wasn't sure if there was much difference, but after using it for an hour I started to realize I was enjoying it much more than ever before, without really being able to put my finger on what was different.
Basic speed increases give it a much more real-time feeling, and some minor graphical enhancements, while hardly noticable at first, make for a more enjoyable experience.
Also noticed alot fewer bugs and annoyances.
Give it a shot!
It's much better in Ubuntu... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:2.14? (Score:2, Informative)
gedit (Score:2, Informative)
it seems to be able to do almost everything that anjuta can do now.
Re:Eye Candy (Score:3, Informative)
*sighs*
I think it would have been obvious from my previous comment what I think about "x is ripping off x" in GUI design. It just doens't happen.
Anyway, hard Drive indexing is not new. Web-style search interfaces are not new. Spotlight was not the first to combine the two. I think the gnome coders have been exposed to a hell of alot more software ideas & concepts then you have - just because os x is the first place you saw a particular concept doesn't mean its the first place that concept appeared.
At least Gnome is taking ideas from OS X, and not being a total clone of Windows like KDE is.
Uh huh. KDE is not a total (or even partial) clone of Windows. It is tremendously more useful.
You're thinking of xpde [xpde.com] I think (note that project does not use anything copyrighted so isn't 'ripping off' either)
Re:Memory Improvements (Score:3, Informative)
Re:gnome-terminal scroll speed & moving window (Score:2, Informative)
xterm is actually one of the slowest terminals. At least, when anti-aliased text is used.
(All configured similarly where possible, white text on black, aa'ed Bitstream Vera Sans Mono)
=Terminal Tests=
time cat
xterm 207 - got impatient
real >32s (was at the Ms when I stopped it)
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.048s
Eterm 0.9.3-r4 - unfair, doesn't do aa'ed fonts
real 0m18.319s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.148s
urxvt 5.3
real 0m15.000s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.236s
konsole 3.4.3
real 0m7.967s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.172s
gnome-terminal 2.12.0
real 0m4.222s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.180s
aterm 0.4.2-r11 - unfair, doesn't do aa'ed fonts
real 0m3.594s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.152s
mrxvt 0.4.1
real 0m0.472s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.168s
(I used to use xterm, now I use mrxvt though occassionaly urxvt due to mrxvt's lack of unicode support (which is on the author's TODO list.))
Although, mrxvt kind of cheats a bit. It caches stuff. You can tell by running rain (from bsd-games) with 0 delay. All terms will have the animation spit out really fast, except mrvxt will skip every hundred frames or so. I find the caching good though. It doesn't interfere with anything I run and prevents scrolling-text syndrome that annoys me a lot.
Re:Great...Hopefully they fixed some bugs too... (Score:2, Informative)
enlightenment 17's desktop pager does this -- why can't gnome's?
Re:Memory Improvements (Score:3, Informative)
Measuring memory usage on Linux isn't a simple business. Frequently memory usage appears much greater than it is, due to a number of reasons. For instance, if 10M of libraries was shared between 10 processes, then a process manager would report 90M more memory than was actually being used.
Re:Beware ... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Cut out the hype, GNOME (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Gnome Terminal speed improvements (Score:3, Informative)
Check out gnomebaker. It's easy to use and has all the features I use in a cd burning program.
GnomeBaker [sourceforge.net]