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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2005-07-24
Unfortunately, in my experience, GTK+ is slower than ever, especially with the modern GNOME themes (Clearlooks et al.). It's been only getting slower and slower since 2002 (the move to Cairo was the biggest disaster for performance, but the recent GTK+ themes have really exploited the slowness potential). It is now - in 2008 - so slow that I can see the individual widgets (spin buttons etc.) being slowly drawn to the dialogs, one by one. I can even easily make screenshots of it. Plus, of course, the Metacity window manager is so unbeliavably superslow it's ridiculous (it can consume the whole CPU just by moving the mouse cursor over the close/maximize buttons, it can only manage to change its title about twice a second, and generally the decoration always appears on the screen with a noticeable delay after the window contents).
Sadly, the GUI performance is a disaster.