Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th May 2007 14:55 UTC, submitted by Philipp Esselbach
GNOME 2.19.2 has been released. "This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007. New features are still arriving, so your mission is simple: go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it."
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I think it only appears that Gnome has lost its way. There is actually a lot of activity by Gnome developers under the surface. Many of these projects are developed by Gnome developers with Gnome in mind but not only for Gnome, so you would not necessarily tie the projects to Gnome at first glance. If you read Planet Gnome and Planet Freedesktop, you will get a much better sense of the flurry of activity going on within the Gnome world. It's actually very exciting.
Gnome specific projects in the works (if they're ready for 2.20, they'll go in; otherwise, they will wait): new vfs layer; more and more core technologies and applications are changing their IPC layer from Bonobo/Orbit to the relatively new DBus; more and more GTK+ functions are moving to the relatively new drawing layer-- Cairo; deprecation of libgnome{ui} with cleaner APIs moving to GTK+; replacement panels beind developed in the form of Gimmie and Big Board; new canvas widget (based on Cairo) being developed-- which might form the basis for a radically new GTK+; Gnome mobile initiative; and probably more stuff I'm forgetting.
Other new areas being developed for Gnome (including Gnome mobile) as well as other desktops: Conduit (synchronization framework), Telepathy (IP, VOIP, IM framework), Empathy (higher level widgets based on Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control), GStreamer (multimedia framework), HAL (hardware detection framework), and PowerManager (power management framework). Some of this has been included in Gnome over the last two years.
Also, a lot of the more radical experimentation by Gnome developers is occurring outside the usual Gnome framework, often in the embedded context: OLPC/Sugar (new UI design for children's computers), Maemo/Hildon (internet tablet UI), Clutter (new GL based UI toolkit), Pigment (new GL based UI toolkit), and LowFat (new desktop paradigm based on GL architecture).
It's good stuff. Check it out.
Gnome specific projects in the works (if they're ready for 2.20, they'll go in; otherwise, they will wait): new vfs layer; more and more core technologies and applications are changing their IPC layer from Bonobo/Orbit to the relatively new DBus; more and more GTK+ functions are moving to the relatively new drawing layer-- Cairo; deprecation of libgnome{ui} with cleaner APIs moving to GTK+; replacement panels beind developed in the form of Gimmie and Big Board; new canvas widget (based on Cairo) being developed-- which might form the basis for a radically new GTK+; Gnome mobile initiative; and probably more stuff I'm forgetting.
Other new areas being developed for Gnome (including Gnome mobile) as well as other desktops: Conduit (synchronization framework), Telepathy (IP, VOIP, IM framework), Empathy (higher level widgets based on Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control), GStreamer (multimedia framework), HAL (hardware detection framework), and PowerManager (power management framework). Some of this has been included in Gnome over the last two years.
Also, a lot of the more radical experimentation by Gnome developers is occurring outside the usual Gnome framework, often in the embedded context: OLPC/Sugar (new UI design for children's computers), Maemo/Hildon (internet tablet UI), Clutter (new GL based UI toolkit), Pigment (new GL based UI toolkit), and LowFat (new desktop paradigm based on GL architecture).
It's good stuff. Check it out.
Wow! All that happening!
Yet when I start Gnome it looks the same for last 7 years.
And featurewise it's on par with Windows 3.1.
Last time I checked I couldn't even customize the tool bar in Nautilus.
Surely I'm not the only one wanting to add a delete button to the toolbar?! Or change the font for desktop and menus?
Where are the features? Functionality?
It's 2007 yet PCTools shell on Win 3.1 in 1994 had more functionality than Gnome.
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2006-12-24
I think it only appears that Gnome has lost its way. There is actually a lot of activity by Gnome developers under the surface. Many of these projects are developed by Gnome developers with Gnome in mind but not only for Gnome, so you would not necessarily tie the projects to Gnome at first glance. If you read Planet Gnome and Planet Freedesktop, you will get a much better sense of the flurry of activity going on within the Gnome world. It's actually very exciting.
Gnome specific projects in the works (if they're ready for 2.20, they'll go in; otherwise, they will wait): new vfs layer; more and more core technologies and applications are changing their IPC layer from Bonobo/Orbit to the relatively new DBus; more and more GTK+ functions are moving to the relatively new drawing layer-- Cairo; deprecation of libgnome{ui} with cleaner APIs moving to GTK+; replacement panels beind developed in the form of Gimmie and Big Board; new canvas widget (based on Cairo) being developed-- which might form the basis for a radically new GTK+; Gnome mobile initiative; and probably more stuff I'm forgetting.
Other new areas being developed for Gnome (including Gnome mobile) as well as other desktops: Conduit (synchronization framework), Telepathy (IP, VOIP, IM framework), Empathy (higher level widgets based on Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control), GStreamer (multimedia framework), HAL (hardware detection framework), and PowerManager (power management framework). Some of this has been included in Gnome over the last two years.
Also, a lot of the more radical experimentation by Gnome developers is occurring outside the usual Gnome framework, often in the embedded context: OLPC/Sugar (new UI design for children's computers), Maemo/Hildon (internet tablet UI), Clutter (new GL based UI toolkit), Pigment (new GL based UI toolkit), and LowFat (new desktop paradigm based on GL architecture).
It's good stuff. Check it out.