Moparx Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Just a simple annoucments thread for everyone.. as the topic says, Gnome 2.6 has been released :) release notes 2.6 start page download source for those who use rpms they should be out now as well (or at least soon) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellBender Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Oh, thats right, the release was supposed to be today.. Great, thanks for the heads up :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredVolkl Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 I'm wondering if I should make the switch from KDE 3.2.1. I really like what they've done with KDE, but this new Gnome looks equally impressive. The problem is, I use Gentoo and my use flags are set to -gtk and -gnome, so for full functionality, I'd need to recompile a bunch of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 just waiting for the ebuild...I'm lazy :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sav Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Screeny anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetRyder Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Loads of them on this page :D http://fgo-temp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/teams...reenshots/html/ Going to wait for a Dropline update. It's planned for early-mid April. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Screeny anyone? http://fgo-temp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/teams...reenshots/html/ :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercuryx013 Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I too will wait for Dropline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Loads of them on this page :Dhttp://fgo-temp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/teams...reenshots/html/ Going to wait for a Dropline update. It's planned for early-mid April. :) QUOTE Screeny anyone? http://fgo-temp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/teams...reenshots/html/ whoa..... :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my name is ben Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 wow looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly2003 Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Excelent, ive been waiting for this release for quite a while! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I won't download it so I can be sure not to mess up my computer ever again! It's just that I reinstalled different Linux distros like eight or nine times over the last month or two and I simply had enough of this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 funny, I put this in Back Page News many hours ago and only got 2 responses... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moparx Posted April 1, 2004 Author Share Posted April 1, 2004 indeed i noticed that too, candyman yours in that forum is why i didnt make another thread there when it was finally released today :) @Webgraph: 9 times?! what have you been doing to end up doing that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 just waiting for the ebuild...I'm lazy :D gnome 2.6 rc5 is in portage, which is the full gnome 2.6 i installed it last night its all good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Can you believe it :s they have added "spatial" browsing (aka, open every damn folder in a damn new window) and made it the default :no: In windows this is the first thing I always disable (well XP already has it disabled and I believe 2000 too). Which idiot decided to default it? It is so annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortis Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 yea you can change that in gconf i know its kinda nanoying but they got the whole bottom-left-corner- navigation thingi which kindaa softens the blow but they should somehow have the navigation view combined with their new spatial view.. like have the tree view inside those new smaller compact, similar windows that open in spacial.. with the old style open inside the current window method. ahh who konws what will happen in 2.8 :) have you been able to get your cairo working schmoove? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 No, I'm a Linux newbie :) One step at a time, lol. Installing Gnome has been enough for today ;) Seen the Cairo screenshots though, looks very delicious :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 1, 2004 I won't download it so I can be sure not to mess up my computer ever again! It's just that I reinstalled different Linux distros like eight or nine times over the last month or two and I simply had enough of this! Use a Debian-based distro then. If something misbehaves then do a "apt-get remove packagename" followed by a "apt-get install packagename". It will handle the dependencies for you. Knoppix 3.4 should hit the mirrors in a few days if not already. The should almost never be a need to completely reinstall Debian (barring a major disk incident). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 (edited) Can you believe it :s they have added "spatial" browsing (aka, open every damn folder in a damn new window) and made it the default :no: In windows this is the first thing I always disable (well XP already has it disabled and I believe 2000 too). Which idiot decided to default it? It is so annoying. It wasn't just decided on. It was researched. There is a science of how people interact with their comps. Read about the decision on the Ars Technica overview of 2.6. If you would use it for more than 5 minutes, you would realize that it is whole lot more intuitive and faster. If you looked into it, you would realize that you can double middle-click to close the parent window of a folder when it has been opened. Also, try to keep an open mind. There are some people, including me, who actually like the spatial metaphor. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean the developer, who works real hard to bring you free, quality software, is an "idiot". That is so disrespectful. Edited April 1, 2004 by Mr. Static Void Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I love the new spatial nautilus! It seems so much faster than the old one too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 indeed i noticed that too, candymanyours in that forum is why i didnt make another thread there when it was finally released today :) @Webgraph: 9 times?! what have you been doing to end up doing that? Testing different Linux distributions all at once. First, I went from Slackware 9.0 to 9.1, but then I had some problems using the built-in printer modules. I reinstalled this version once or twice because I was testing some updates (including the kernel) and it caused my system to jam. So I thought I'd give Fedora 2 Test 1 a try and it was all right except that the printer failed after installing TrueType fonts. I think I installed Fedora twice to make sure of this fact. Then I went back to Mandrake 9.0 until 10.0 was out. So I eventually put 10.0 on and I was very unimpressed with the problems I had. And a couple of weeks ago, I went back to Slackware 9.1, this time remembering to install the printer drivers via source and not the ones included, and it was fine. Now that everything works decently, I better park it with the testing and the upgrading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmoove Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 It wasn't just decided on. It was researched. There is a science of how people interact with their comps. Read about the decision on the Ars Technica overview of 2.6. If you would use it for more than 5 minutes, you would realize that it is whole lot more intuitive and faster. If you looked into it, you would realize that you can double middle-click to close the parent window of a folder when it has been opened.Also, try to keep an open mind. There are some people, including me, who actually like the spatial metaphor. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean the developer, who works real hard to bring you free, quality software, is an "idiot". That is so disrespectful. Relax a bit ok..... jeez. I know what it is and I've worked more then 5 minutes with it. I've been dealing with this since Windows 95 and I tried it long enough in Gnome 2.6 to say that I hate it. Research or not, there is a reason why Microsoft decided to drop it and why MacOSX works different too. It is because it clutters the desktop and you loose sight of what is where.... at least that is my experience. That you have tons of shortcuts, mouse actions or whatever to manage it doesn't make it much better. It still feels like crap for me. Also I find it kind of stupid how they are trying to re-invent the wheel and making it a new breakthrough feature.... while other OS-es don't use it and proved it to be less usefull then other methods. This is just my personal opinion, if you like the way it works... well good for you. I think it blows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2004 For those who care, Debian now has 2.6.0-3 on their apt-get system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercuryx013 Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 Dropline Gnome Test1 has been released, which includes Gnome 2.6. www.dropline.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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