GNOME 2.19.6 has been released yesterday. "This is our sixth 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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Member since:2005-07-06
Actually, I prefer a good stable well thought out release, over a lot of features that are only there for marketing reasons.
If they should do some more marketing, I would just suggest they do a few screenshots on the Gnome site, showing the enhancements in each release.
Member since:2005-07-06
Exactly. Casual and non users really have very little idea where Gnome is and where it's actually going...
Unlike KDE4 which has been marketing itself very well (hopefully not too well...I trust they have the engineering to go with the hype though)
Glad to see we have two strong, powerful, featureful free desktops in existance. Different enough that the vast majority of users not only find they can use one of the two easily...But that they really LIKE using them.
Loving Gnome right now 
Member since:2005-07-06
Actually, I prefer a good stable well thought out release, over a lot of features that are only there for marketing reasons.
If you've got nothing to market, what have you got?
If they should do some more marketing, I would just suggest they do a few screenshots on the Gnome site, showing the enhancements in each release.
What are those screenshots going to show?
Member since:2005-07-06
How about this as their new marketing motto:
"Better to add a small number of well tested features to each release than trying to cram a mountain of untested and potentially problematic code for the sake of hype"
I'd sooner see less features, more testing and greater focus on reliability; it isn't as though GNOME is so deficient that it requires massive overhauls (hence the reason there is no GNOME 3.0).
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2005-07-08
Gnome is good. It's just not interesting to follow its development roadmap because they never make exciting release, just incremental changes once in a while.
It's all good tho. I've no problem with that, but it's far from being a good marketing strategy ;-)