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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for a software developer, the fatal part is in the backward compatibility area - nobody like to port applications back and forth - M$ knew this too well, as for windows GUI programming, using new features mostly mean dynamically loading a few new APIs or call a few new COM interfaces - they take only days or weeks instead of months or years for the magnitude of gtk1 to gtk2 style porting.
as is the font rendering
for a software developer, the fatal part is in the backward compatibility area - nobody like to port applications back and forth - M$ knew this too well, as for windows GUI programming, using new features mostly mean dynamically loading a few new APIs or call a few new COM interfaces - they take only days or weeks instead of months or years for the magnitude of gtk1 to gtk2 style porting.