Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Mar 2008 22:59 UTC
The GNOME development community has announced the official release of version 2.22 after six months of development. GNOME is an open-source desktop environment that supplies a complete user interface and an assortment of programs for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. GNOME 2.22 includes some important new architectural features and a handful of significant new programs. Among the most important enhancements in GNOME 2.22 are the GVFS virtual file system framework, which brings improved network transparency to GNOME desktop applications, and the PolicyKit framework, which provides improved support for secure privilege elevation.
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I don't sit on the KDE lists much at all, so this is just my personal observations -
KDE seems to keep larger changes to the bigger release (KDE3, KDE4), which happen every few years. They let that guide the minor releases, which will tend to have some big, not architecturally big, changes (e.g. KDE 3.3 vs. KDE 3.4). This then leaves minor enhancements, and bug fixes, etc. for the point releases (e.g. KDE 3.4.9, KDE 4.0.2). So I think they have been consistent.
Last I read about major changes to KDE was for the 3.4 release, which was quite nice over 3.3 - though I didn't use 3.3 much. (I transitioned to KDE around that time from GNOME.)
Any how...from my perspective KDE has a consistent and good plan - use the major version for major arch issues, minor version for functional updates and major fixes within the arch, and point releases for bug fixes, etc. They also do quite well with getting updates out too.
Haven't paid much attention to GNOME lately, but they don't seem to be making any where near the news or doing near as much to put together a user friendly desktop as the KDE folks (one of the reasons I moved to KDE).