Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 5th Jun 2003 06:49 UTC
One year ago I wrote a review of Gnome 2. Some people thought I was harsh, others thought I was fair, point is, I always write what I think and surely Gnome 2.0 didn't have the polish or stability of a .0 release. But one year has passed. Gnome 2.2.1 is out, and I must say one thing: I am starting to get impressed by the effort and the clean interface Gnome 2 is now offering. Update: Screenshots inside.
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What I am really starting to like is that GNOME and KDE are evolving into two separate schools of interface design. I personally prefer the KDE school, since I like to tweak everything just right, and the more menu options for me the better. Havoc Pennington's focus on having good defaults has really paid off, though--the GNOME desktop by default looks much more beautiful than KDE, with WELL-DONE anti-aliased fonts, great menubars, beautiful Nautilus icons. GTK2 speed is an issue, and the ugly brown-gray background of its default theme is no good IMHO.
The growing interoperability of GNOME and KDE is good. .desktop files are a good move towards unified menus.
One question though: What is this issue people have with cutting/pasting from GNOME to KDE and vice-versa? I have never had this problem. Have they just not discovered the middle-mouse-click yet?