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| Author | Content |
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| tracyanne Nov 01, 2010 9:25 PM EDT |
I will continue to be developed and used. |
| hkwint Nov 01, 2010 11:25 PM EDT |
Hmm TA, signed a bad EULA? Rest assured, you're not the only one being used. And I'm glad your development is still proceeding, we all reap the benefits of those efforts thanks to your comments. /me tries hard to keep a straight face |
| vainrveenr Nov 01, 2010 11:53 PM EDT |
Quoting:I [It] will continue to be developed and used.Maybe speculation that GNOME could be tweaked to improve its performance similar to such efforts by Xfce (see http://www.xfce.org/ ) ?? OTOH, maybe GNOthing :) ?? |
| tracyanne Nov 02, 2010 12:12 AM EDT |
@ hkwint, wha can I say. I can' find he '' |
| hkwint Nov 02, 2010 12:53 AM EDT |
Sorry for that, but it was too funny to resist. Back on topic: So I tried to look into Gnome a bit, as a non-user. I've read about Shell, so I found a "Gnome Shell Tour": http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Tour Might be the first time I see additional value in a 'desktop environment' instead of just a Window Manager. If it was in my package manager, I'm pretty sure I'd be compiling it right now (if it wasn't too many MB's) to test it. It has some features I definitely want, like the 'recent documents' list. Sad it lacks a 'self learning' dmenu/yeganesh-like app launcher though, it's been a can't-live-without since I discovered it. What I like about the Gnome-effort is, it presents a gradual, increasing development cycle, instead of the more "version driven let's change everything" mentality of the project. Evolution, not revolution. Reminds me of stable stuff like OpenBSD, or rolling-release software, which means - if you graph 'headache vs. time' - no peak-headaches when migrating to some new major-version. As the project is not involved in some major overhaul (what I somehow thought because of the planned bump to 3.0) I think there's not many need for extra developers, nothing the current team can't handle. Hence I agree to the post which started the thread. The only screw-up made by the Gnome-team might be not to offer Compiz-support as an alternative, because that way they might have kept Canonical happy. What I wonder though, is - given RedHat contributes ~90% of Gnome - if it will ever find its way into corporate stuff like RHEL. I think it would come in handy in companies, as many productivity is lost because people have to browse to recent documents - or start a particular application to open those, or looking in unwieldy Windows-startmenus with 100+ entries to look for some app. At the same time, I'm surprised there's not much more to Gnome 3.0 - like new frameworks (GTK major release?), can't find much about that. |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 02, 2010 3:12 AM EDT |
Pretty much all planned Gnome 3 features are being rolled into GTK 2.x and Gnome Shell. |
| ComputerBob Nov 02, 2010 1:01 PM EDT |
Quoting:@ hkwint, wha can I say. I can' find he ''That's a very clever response. It took me a second to figure it out. ;) |
| hkwint Nov 02, 2010 2:16 PM EDT |
Bob: Same here! |
| hkwint Nov 02, 2010 2:16 PM EDT |
Bob: Same here! Probably Aussie layout or something? |
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