Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Sep 2009 00:01 UTC
Today, the GNOME team has released GNOME 2.28. It builds on the solid foundation laid out by all the previous releases, and adds in a number of new features and improvements, on top of all the bug fixes and performance improvements, of course.
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Something's up with the fonts on the first screenshot that makes it look pretty awful. Either it's been resized or the hinting is broken.. Not sure but it doesn't make a good first impression.
Clearly the image has been resized.
One bug users may experience in Epiphany, due to the change to WebKit, is not being able to save logins and passwords in forms. This bug will be fixed during the 2.30 development cycle.
Yikes. That's a pretty significant regression. Why was this not a showstopper for the release? I'm sure users could have dealt with gecko for another 6 months. Not being able to save passwords would make me ditch a browser for sure.
Some would argue that Epiphany bugs shouldn't prevent a full Gnome release when everyone on Linux is using Firefox anyway.
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...when everyone on Linux is using Firefox anyway...
Not everyone uses Firefox on Linux. I don't use it exclusively, on any OS.
Where are the numbers that prove that 100% of desktop Linux users run Firefox exclusively?
Now if you had said Ubuntu users, that may be a different animal altogether (no offense meant towards Ubuntu).
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2005-09-21
Congrats to Gnome on the release.
Something's up with the fonts on the first screenshot that makes it look pretty awful. Either it's been resized or the hinting is broken.. Not sure but it doesn't make a good first impression.
The tech behind empathy (telepathy) is coming along nicely. It's very quickly becoming the way to create connectivity applications, and we're looking at using it at work for some projects. Very cool stuff.
One bug users may experience in Epiphany, due to the change to WebKit, is not being able to save logins and passwords in forms. This bug will be fixed during the 2.30 development cycle.
Yikes. That's a pretty significant regression. Why was this not a showstopper for the release? I'm sure users could have dealt with gecko for another 6 months. Not being able to save passwords would make me ditch a browser for sure.
Otherwise some nice tweaks. Special kudos for the accessibility work, this is an area that is sorely lacking in most other open source projects.