Gnome 2.18 Released 253
xdancergirlx writes "Gnome 2.18 was released today (on time as usual). Detailed release notes are available. Nothing revolutionary in this release but definitely some nice new features, bug fixes, and improvements."
did they include Linus' patch? (Score:1, Interesting)
Did they include... (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/1937
I can't feel any responsiveness improvements. (Score:5, Interesting)
In any case, earlier today I built GNOME 2.18 on my system. I've been using it for a few hours now. And compared to the KDE 3.5.6 installation I was using earlier today, I think it's significantly slower. Evolution is far more heavy-weight than KMail. Nautilus takes longer to display directories. I have one directory with about 15000 photos in it. Nautilus crashes when viewing it, while with Konqueror I can easily scroll through the thumbnails within about a second.
Maybe it's just a quality control problem with GNOME. While I don't follow the development mailing lists very closely, I've heard from co-workers that GNOME is suffering from some pretty serious organizational issues. Low-quality code is being accepted into GTK+ and GNOME itself, and many people are noticing a decrease in its quality as of late. Maybe somebody can shed more light on whether or not these rumors are true?
Re:It has nearly caught up to KDE......... (Score:3, Interesting)
I did not see in the KWallet docs (http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeutils/kwallet/i
These features were supported back in KDE 2!
I didn't see anything in the KDE 2 notes about supporting vertical text. Though it could be they didn't specifically mention it.
Yep, KDE has offered such functionality for years. KDevelop is an extremely mature software development environment. It's of a far higher quality than Anjuta, and offers a far greater number of features.
Most definately true. KDevelop is a pretty nice program.
GNOME, Ubuntu, and the colour green... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Did they include... (Score:4, Interesting)
That's Not Release Notes (Score:5, Interesting)
Such marketsprach has its place. But the release notes are even more important. And even more important is not pretending that marketsprach is release notes.
If GNOME release managers don't release that by themselves, then the project is in serious trouble.
Re:That's Nice (Score:3, Interesting)
As far as not requiring metadata for MP3s, Amarok already supports this (another KDE application). It calculates a sound fingerprint of the file and uses the Musicbrainz database to try and figure out the song. Not only that, but I can bring up lyrics, the CD cover and even Wikipedia entries on the band in question. It's pretty amazing.
As far as grouping photographs, I don't know anything open source that does that based on picture content.
-Aaron
Re:GNOME, Ubuntu, and the colour green... (Score:3, Interesting)
I thought green was better at soothing psychopathic behaviour. It's also suppoosed to be easier for people with various types of dyslexia to read and absorb information, so yeah, go green
Re:I can't feel any responsiveness improvements. (Score:3, Interesting)
I've found KDE to feel simply -less- slow. Could some of this "slowness" be due to a lack of threading? I don't understand how it all works but my intuition was: if lots of services are working in serial and each has to send up a flag for the next to do something, and then nothing happens until the next service refreshes and checks up on the previous service to see if it's raised a flag (for instance say the mouse hovering over a menu item yet the item not lighting up; I notice lag in Gnome in this area _all_ the time), then what you could have is a collection of services that, while very efficient and fast in and of themselves, are slow when added together. Best example I can think of is an assembly line with 15 mutant workers-- each worker can transfer his load from one hand to his other hand instantly, but the next worker has to realize it's his turn to pick up the load and pass it on. 15 guys and this time adds up and you notice GUI lag. Whereas in Windows XP with threading (I never notice this sort of lag in XP that I notice in Gnome), it's like the first worker shouts "alright get ready" and then the time spent handing off and receiving the load between workers is greatly reduced. With lots of services shouting "get ready" this may slow things down, but not where it's important-- if it feels fast, then it is fast.
Am I completely off the mark?
Is GNOME stagnating? (Score:3, Interesting)
This release gets a big fat yawn from me. Like 2.16 did as well.