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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"Nautilus' SMB VFS is just not as good as it should have been (and I am not aware of any work done to this recently)"
A lot of rewriting of the SMB method has happened for GNOME 2.4.
"There are two more issues with Gnome, but these are bound to 'naturally' get resolved as time goes by: Integration with the underlying OS and the File Open/Save dialog."
We are currently debating whether to integrate gnome-system-tools into the desktop for GNOME 2.4/2.6. Exactly what will happen is unknown, as yet.
As you're aware, a new file open/save dialog will be in GTK+ 2.4 and GNOME 2.6.
"Also, I wouldn't mind seeing Gnome "emerging" in their distribution the changes Ximian did for their upcoming Ximian Desktop 2."
Ximian patches will go upstream where applicable, they say.
"Other third party applications that would be great to join the club would be a HIG-ified version of Balsa or Evolution, Galeon or Epiphany..."
I think Ximian are aiming to HIGify evo 1.6. Epiphany is meant to be higgy already; any bit that's not is a bug (http://bugzilla.gnome.org).
"I am optimistic about Gnome's development as a DE..."
Great :-)
"There is no doubt in mind, the only way is up."
We could go down if we tried, too :-)
Oh, one other thing.
"GTK+ 2.x is much slower than GTK+ 1.x"
I haven't seen any proof of this, yet. Most GNOME 2 apps are faster for me; some of this is of course optimisation in the app.