GNOME 2.12.3 has been released. This will be the final release in the 2.12 branch, as GNOME 2.14 is already on its way. Read the release notes (platform, desktop, and bindings), download the source code (platform, desktop, and bindings), or just wait until your distributor of choice packages it for you.
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2005-07-06
The GNOME devs are really hauling ass lately. It's like every week I see a dev release.
Are they actually working on performance/memory optimizations this time around, or just packing more and more half-baked features into the thing? This is a serious question, and not a troll. I haven't looked at GNOME in ages simply because it stopped being appealing, what with all the half-finished stuff lying around.
How is it looking with these last few releases?
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2005-12-09
I think the GNOME community did a good thing by introducing the 6 monthly release cycle. It seems like there are lots of improvements in GNOME lately. I am mainly a KDE user, but its nice to see the other DE improving which provides healthy competition. I've been using the 2.12.3 release for a few days now and thats the beauty of FreeBSD ports.
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2005-07-08
Running this release and it works fine, these comments aren't per-say specific to this new release.
File-roller doesn't tell me percentage done, I've been told why this is but I still think it's fundamentally flawed if I can't information I really take for granted under any other DE I work in.
This could just be my setup that's collected dust, but the Gnome button still takes ages to load the first time.
Gnome-panel keep getting better and better in supporting things transparent (clock, tasks, etc) so I can have my background show through making my desktop look pretty, but it's still not perfect.
Edited 2006-02-08 23:07
Member since:2005-11-14
File-roller doesn't tell me percentage done, I've been told why this is but I still think it's fundamentally flawed if I can't information I really take for granted under any other DE I work in
What do you take for granted ? Flawed progress bar ?
File-roller is not flawed as long as it does its job, which it does. What you ask is in the domain of convenience or perhaps usability, in no way it makes file-roller flawed. But I've seen that often, when progress bars are given on other DE for extracting files, you just can't rely on the percentage they give you.
This could just be my setup that's collected dust, but the Gnome button still takes ages to load the first time
It takes more time the first time you start it, and less time after. This is one of the area Federico (and others) worked on for Gnome 2.14. Gnome is starting to be completely IO bound, so I don't experience as much slowness as others, as I run on SCSI disks (I don't even feel the OS swapping, except when it's thrashing because all the memory is eaten).
Now, you should have way better perfs in Gnome 2.14, as it should be under 1 second the first time, and it was tested on a laptop (known for their slow access disks) by Federico.
There has been big improvements with font handling too (but this is external to Gnome).
Gnome-panel keep getting better and better in supporting things transparent (clock, tasks, etc) so I can have my background show through making my desktop look pretty, but it's still not perfect
The future and correct way is compositing I think.
Edited 2006-02-09 13:09
