The latest release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.16.1, a bug fixing release. Release notess: admin, bindings, desktop and platform. Source code: admin sources, bindings sources,
desktop sources and finally, platform sources. Additionally, GTK+ 2.10.6 was also released with some bugfixes in it.
GNOME 2.16.1 Released
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Slightly offtopic here… But it’s always bothered me that the win32 builds and such of GTK+ always lag behind. (Seems now its at 2.8.20, according to the GTK+ For Win32 page on gtk.org)
It would be nice if the cross-platform-ness of this cross-platform toolkit was a little more up to date.
It’d also be nice if GTK+ got out of 1998. Seriously, it makes my 1400×1050 resolution LCD look like 800×600 no matter what font or theme I use (I basically get variations between absurdly oversized and ridiculously large). It’d also be nice if it was fast, but I think that’s asking too much of the GNOME folks (after all, it might confuse users).
It’d also be nice if GTK+ got out of 1998. Seriously, it makes my 1400×1050 resolution LCD look like 800×600 no matter what font or theme I use (I basically get variations between absurdly oversized and ridiculously large)
I think you are still living in 1998, unless I didn’t understand what you mean. The right behaviour is that the font or theme you choose should not change because you change display medium. Your fonts should be the same size on a 800×600 and on a 1400×1050. It should just be more readable on the 1400×1050 display.
I mean, your 12 pt font should be 12 pt everywhere (screen, paper, …). So on my 1600×1200 display, Gnome looks big because I use 10 pt fonts, but 8 pt (or lesser) fonts are perfectly readable even with Gnome’s antialiasing on at these sizes.
It’d also be nice if it was fast, but I think that’s asking too much of the GNOME folks (after all, it might confuse users)
And I wonder what you mean there … When I hear people like you, it sounds like you hit the cairo corner cases every single time you make a desktop action !
Tracker support in Nautilus, it’s in Edgy and it’s blazing fast. Nautilus search found over 6000 png images in about 10 seconds and finds stuff in under a second.
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/3782.html