A Long Awaited Release Party
I apologize for the lack of blogging lately. I've been spending most of my time
designing MySQL databases to pay the bills. I'll elaborate futher in the near
future.
Until then, I couldn't allow this headline to go by without commenting, since I've been actively promoting it for so long.
Yesterday marked the final release date of GNOME 2.10, a great improvement over GNOME 2.8. I've been using the test releases from 2.9 for the past month.
Public opinion over at GnomeDesktop.org is mixed. Much like the spatial browsing, debate, love it or hate it. I find that spatial browsing makes more sense once you grow accustomed to it and allows for a much simpler interface. It can, however, become an encumberace with very deeply nested directories if you don't use it all the time.
The addition of the "Places" menu eliminates the need for mutiple click spatial browsing for most of your filesystem and cleans the desktop of cluttered shortcuts everywhere.
Totem, the new gtreamer media/dvd player ships officially now, so it often takes only a few clicks to get media files playing, and the HIG allows for previews in Nautilus.
This is an old point, but when combined with the work done over at Freedesktop.org the somewhat hard to define "Project Utopia" looks really solid.
Combined with support for Cairo, it looks like GNOME and GTK+ are really growing up.
Until then, I couldn't allow this headline to go by without commenting, since I've been actively promoting it for so long.
Yesterday marked the final release date of GNOME 2.10, a great improvement over GNOME 2.8. I've been using the test releases from 2.9 for the past month.
Public opinion over at GnomeDesktop.org is mixed. Much like the spatial browsing, debate, love it or hate it. I find that spatial browsing makes more sense once you grow accustomed to it and allows for a much simpler interface. It can, however, become an encumberace with very deeply nested directories if you don't use it all the time.
The addition of the "Places" menu eliminates the need for mutiple click spatial browsing for most of your filesystem and cleans the desktop of cluttered shortcuts everywhere.
Totem, the new gtreamer media/dvd player ships officially now, so it often takes only a few clicks to get media files playing, and the HIG allows for previews in Nautilus.
This is an old point, but when combined with the work done over at Freedesktop.org the somewhat hard to define "Project Utopia" looks really solid.
Combined with support for Cairo, it looks like GNOME and GTK+ are really growing up.
