JanneM writes
"Gnome 2.4 is arriving early september. Sayamindu Dasgupta has installed the 2.3.5 development release to see what's in store, and has written a very nice overview of the upcoming release." Update: 08/14 16:06 GMT by
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Nautilus? (Score:5, Interesting)
Does it fix any of those annoying problems in the current versions like:
Re:Nautilus? (Score:2, Interesting)
Used RAM also increases (at a reduced rate) when I use a lighter file manager. The only way to reclaim that memory is to restart X. Maybe XFree86 4.3.0 has a memory leek in RedHat 9 too?
FYI the amount of RAM doesn't increase like that in my Windows 98, which is also immune to the Blaster Worm.
Mike
Re:Nautilus? (Score:5, Interesting)
Debatable.
Nautilus takes an ungodly amount of memory to run
Well, it does a lot of stuff... you might not use it all, but it's there.
It can't seem to associate file type with applications consistently
This is somewhat confusing, but I found in RH9 and Ximian's XD2, a lot of things are associated correctly from the get-go.
It has that annoying "feature" where any time I insert removable media, it opens a window of the media automatically. (I was going to bitch about it mounting automatically, as well, but I suspect that's RH's doing, there: god, sometimes I want to dd, you know)
RTFM? Try "gnome-cd-properties". This isn't nautilus' fault in the first place.
You close it and it still takes up the same ungodly amount of memory. If I want that kind of behavior, I'll look for it in Windows, thank you.
Then you haven't really closed it now, have you? What do you think is managing your desktop? If you don't like it, there's always KDE, or TWM if you'd prefer...
Re:Nautilus? (Score:5, Interesting)
No idea what the problem with file association is. I've just never had an issue with it (and rather like the way Nautilus gives you a menu of programs to try with a right-click). If you're setting new associations, read the choices carefully, as some similar sounding ones do different things.
You do realize that the _desktop_ is controlled by Nautilus, and thus you really can't close it without killing it, right?
-Erwos
Great (Score:5, Interesting)
I am not a Gnome basher, frankly I find it humurous that people would bicker over desktops. But, I am forced to use it from time to time, so I would it to be at least as good as KDE.
I've been using the CVS (Score:-1, Interesting)
For Example, when I click on a file open box in any GTK+ aware application, the GNOME File Picker widget opens allowing me to scroll through a list of my files. Different types of files show different information. For example my MP3s show title artist etc. My digital camera photos show information on the camera settings used to take the picture.
I've put up some screen shots of these new features as well as pictures I created using these new features at MikeGreenChallenge.com [mikegreenchallenge.com]
Thanks :)
Re:Nautilus? (Score:5, Interesting)
Sometimes windows can take upto 10 seconds to open on my machine (2Ghz Athlon, go figure), and I find myself clicking on it a few times to make sure I got it, or right clicking and selecting 'Open' - then have three windows appear at once. Very annoying.
Neat... (Score:4, Interesting)
1) Is there a "roadmap" setout in regards to GTK 2.4/2.6 etc terms of functionality one should expect in up coming releases.
2) I've heard rumbles that gtk2 is still being ported to Quartz, could someone confirm it. I know there is an X11 version, however, it would be nice to have one that does require it, not because of anything political, I just don't want to download that massive 40+ MB XFree86 package from Apple
3) Is there going to be a move by GNOME to support MAS as a replacement for esound? having used MAS and seen it action, it would be a really great addition if it was made available.
4) When running GNOME on FreeBSD I notice that when I select text in a terminal window there is a stall and the whole computer freezes then suddenly comes alright. I haven't experience that with KDE.
Having run GNOME 2.2 on Linux quite nicely it clearly isn't an issue with GNOME but with the FreeBSD port. Could someone confirm that this is being addressed?
My Personal Diatribe (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Nautilus? (Score:5, Interesting)
It's not a problem, technically. People are just paranoid about their memory usage and don't understand how Gnome really makes use of it.
Any Metacity Fixes/Updates? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Any Metacity Fixes/Updates? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Nautilus? (Score:1, Interesting)
i'd expect that kind of attitude from microsoft, but not from *nix developers.
Re:Problems with gnome 2.3 (the 2.4 beta) (Score:3, Interesting)
The GNOME and GTK+ projects follow a very strict set of rules in not breaking compatibility.
browser issue, RedHat vs Gnome (Score:2, Interesting)
And I was underwhelmed with some of the tools. The best example I've seen so far (/.ing has delivery of all pages with all pics) is the screen resolution selector. I think RedHat's version is much nicer. Again - why reinvent the wheel? If they can't use RH's (did they ask?), do something similar. Or better. But IMO the Gnome version is a step down from RH's.
Nautilus Useable? (Score:5, Interesting)
I have a directory with a few thousand files and Nautilus popped up a message saying something like "There are too many files for Nautilus to display. Exiting" WTF?????? Its the primary job of the friggin app and it won't do it??? Very unprofessional.
GLOBAL Always On Top functionality? (Score:2, Interesting)
It seems to me a sensible feature of a desktop would be to have a standard feature on every single visible window that would allow the user to set that window as 'always on top'. Remove the responsibility for the functionality from the app developer, and let it be part of the desktop's job. This would allow the user to set 'Always On Top' for any window he/she wants.
As a user, not a developer, I have been unable to figure out why this could be problematic. I only assume it may pose some sort of difficulty because I haven't yet seen this implemented, and it seems like a no-brainer to me.
Re:Make those damn buttons SMALLER! (Score:3, Interesting)
In main windows, the only large buttons are toolbar buttons with labels. But that makes sense since it will be immediately obvious what those buttons are for; you don't have to mouseover them and look at the tooltips. And this can be changed: Applications->Desktop Preferences->Menus and Toolbars->Text Besides Icons
It makes a lot of sense to make normal buttons bigger.
This and more fixed in current. (Score:3, Interesting)