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I have recently installed Gnome 2.4 from mandrake cooker, but it is a very disapointing release. I reccomend others to either stick to Gnome 2.2 or use the new KDE 3.2 [kde.org] alpha when its released soon.

Here is why GNOME 2.4 is worse than gnome 2.2.

        * Still has that horrible file dialog!

        * File roller has removed the extract here option from the right click menu, now you have go through about 5 menus just to extract a file

        * Metacity still dosen't support button reordering (hacking its gconf registry dosen't count)

        * Nautilus still dosen't have split pane support (konqueror is famous for that).

        * The new panel architecture sucks! Its harder to use and configure.

        * Epiphany, which was once going to be a lean browsing machine, has been turned into an AOL clone! Its a shameful 1.0 release, and they removed Bookmark folders, now my bookmarks will be cluttred, I'm concidering switching to Mozillabird.

        * Still no colour scheme changer, windows had this from 1.0, and kde too.

        * Wanda the fish still looks stupid.
        * Totem still crashes on avi files. If it didn't use the inferior Xine libraries and used mplayer this wouldn't happen

        * The documentation is still incomplete.

        * The anti feature police have taken over 100 features away from Gnome since 2.2, I can't list them all, figure it out for yourself

        * bonobo-slay still annoys me.

        * The smelly foot is still there, with NO WAY TO change it, since the feature police took it away.

Please boycott gnome until they put the features back, I AM A REALLY ANGRY (soon to be ex-)GNOME USER! WHEN KDE 3.2 ALPHA COMES OUT I'M SWITCHING! WILL YOU?