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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I've been using GNOME since the 1.0 days, when the focus was on features over all else. I got used to this mentality, and I liked the flexibility GNOME offered. GNOME 2.0 felt lobotomised by comparison, and I was never comfortable with KDE. However, I persevered with GNOME2, and now I must say that I enjoy it very much. It has sensible defaults, so I feel less need for customisation, and it feels much cleaner, like a Mac. One thing I kept from my old GNOME 1.x days is Sawfish, which I like to configure so I can manage my windows via the keyboard. It's much faster than using the mouse, and I'm sure if implemented well it could be great for accessibility (not everyone can use a mouse well).
"Another feature I would like to see in its panel is the ability to have a "Quick Launch" area where all application launcher icons are the half-size of the Gnome menu icon size."
I use The Quick Lounge Applet [http://quick-lounge.sourceforge.net/] to do this. I also like to use GNOME Swallow [http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron/technology/swallow/] to 'appletise' ordinary programmes like Gkrellm. I think they should be included in GNOME proper.