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."
yeah but (Score:3, Funny)
Beware ... (Score:5, Funny)
Canadian English is now supported, eh ;) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Beware ... (Score:2, Funny)
GNOME 2.14 was released on the ides of March [gnomedesktop.org], but the editors were all out enjoying the new grilled chicken Caesar burrito at Taco Bell to post the story in a timely fashion. And who can blame them -- the new grilled chicken Caesar burrito at Taco Bell is just $1.99 for a limited time when you mention this post. Take your $2 bills down to Taco Bell and get ready for a feast that will make you wish you had a Caesaerian of your own!
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Ready? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ready? (Score:5, Funny)
That's "5...4...3...2...1...KO!!!", which you would've known if you'd stop worshipping the HIG for a while and start listening to the users!
Re:Eye Candy (Score:2, Funny)
Re:defaults... (Score:5, Funny)
Takes up too much screen real estate.
You wouldn't have ever right clicked on the panel and seen an items marked "New Panel" and "Delete this panel", would you? You can have as few (say, zero) or as many panels as you like, drag them to any edge you like, stack more than one on any edge too if you like.
I personally like to take advantage of my large 800x600 monitors and have panels stacked five deep on every edge of my two monitors, so I can have one widget per panel. BTW has anyone else noticed how unusable slashdot is when the browser window is 300x200? You'd think they'd be more careful to test it on typical configurations like mine.
Re:"I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stu (Score:4, Funny)
But I am in a childish mood so must point out that you seem to be missing the entire raison d'etre of the GNOME desktop.
That is that a user should be able to control their entire computer simply by allowing a large drop of drool to fall from their mouth onto a special pressure sensitive pad. By allowing drool to fall from the left side of their mouth they will have "left drooled" on the selected object. Similarly by allowing drool to fall from the right side of their mouth they will have "right drooled" on the selected object
This will provide all the feature they need to work with the single file held in their home directory (further subdirectories and fiels having been banned as it "breaks the spatial paradigm" and "causes the user confusion")
Can you tell I'm not a fan?
Re:Canadian English is now supported, eh ;) (Score:5, Funny)
oh no! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Eye Candy (Score:3, Funny)
But now it all makes sense. The poster obviously was under the impression that Apple invented multiuser environments and indexed searches.
So, he's just an idiot; nothing to see here.