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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There is a problem with DirectFB. Mine is that many cards do not support a framebuffer device, and people with NVIDIA cards will have to choose between that and HW OpenGL, and that's not good (the rivafb driver wreaks havoc on the NVIDIA drivers).
Also, GDK (the Gimp Drawing Kit) has been available before GTK2, they had it in GTK1 as well. GTK passes commands to GDK anyway, and not directly to X.
There is a problem with DirectFB. Mine is that many cards do not support a framebuffer device, and people with NVIDIA cards will have to choose between that and HW OpenGL, and that's not good (the rivafb driver wreaks havoc on the NVIDIA drivers).
Also, GDK (the Gimp Drawing Kit) has been available before GTK2, they had it in GTK1 as well. GTK passes commands to GDK anyway, and not directly to X.