The GNOME Project announced the availability of the GNOME 2.2.2 Desktop and Developer Platform. The 2.2.x series is devoted to bugfixes, translations, and general polish of our major 2.2 stable release. The project strongly recommends upgrading to 2.2.2, as it contains large amounts of improvements.
GNOME 2.2.2 Released
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gnome 2.3 rocks… skip 2.2.X i haven’t had a single problem with 2.3.3.
i really would like to but waiting for it to his portage for gentoo. i know you can get the ebuilds somewhere else but i would rather wait. 2.3 is really promising and looking forward to 2.4.
They have simple made Gnome look so nice, well depending on how you have it set up, some of the shots in the gallery are great. Go Gnomers!
The project strongly recommends upgrading to 2.2.2, as it contains large amounts of improvements. And finally the GNOME desktop has self realized consciousness.
Bad to bappen eventually
There are still bugs in 2.3 which for me makes it totally unusable. Starting an xterm and have it appear a million lines high is rather annoying, especially when it can’t be resized in increments smaller than say 400k pixels.
But the improvements in Nautilus are great. It is much faster when opening directories with a lot of files in them.
gnome 2.3 rocks… skip 2.2.X i haven’t had a single problem with 2.3.3.
That is sadly not the case for me on FreeBSD-current. For example, I can’t use Epiphany because it crashes every 5 minutes or so, but I suspect most of my problems are related to instabilities in the new threading libraries. It’s looking pretty good, though.
That is sadly not the case for me on FreeBSD-current. For example, I can’t use Epiphany because it crashes every 5 minutes or so, but I suspect most of my problems are related to instabilities in the new threading libraries. It’s looking pretty good, though.
I am using Gnome 2.3.3 on 5.1-CURRENT, it works perfect and it’s very stable with libc_r.. The threads aren’t stable that make many apps crash.
> I am using Gnome 2.3.3 on 5.1-CURRENT, it works
> perfect and it’s very stable with libc_r.. The threads
> aren’t stable that make many apps crash.
I sure as hell hope that isn’t on your work machine!
But to be honest, testing a bleeding edge beta of gnome on a FreeBSD current system is hardly going to produce useful bug reports (if that is your intention). Normally you’d run stable software (such as 2.2 like the rest of us sane people use) so that you can send the FreeBSD team bugs relating to their system raher than bugs from gnome
Just a thought anyway. If you’re using a “muck about” type machine, forget i said anything.
You can get HP computers pre-loaded with Mandrake 9.1 now from their website ! Starting price is around $427 for the d220 series ( monitor not included ). Here are some basic specs on what you can get.
? Intel® Pentium® 4 2.40GHz/533
? Intel® 865G chipset
? 128MB DDR PC2700
? 40GB ATA/100 5400RPM hard drive 1st
? Linux – Mandrake 9.1 operating
Of course you can configure it the way you want it and upgrade/beef up certian parts like adding more ram, faster/larger harddrive, changing cdrom types, faster/slower cpu etc… I am really thinking of getting one and ditching this old secondary backup 450 mhz machine ( also running Mandrake 9.1 ) now.
I sure as hell hope that isn’t on your work machine!
It is… When, Gnome isn’t working and there’s always another WM to use.. I use Openbox as my backup WM. 😉
But to be honest, testing a bleeding edge beta of gnome on a FreeBSD current system is hardly going to produce useful bug reports (if that is your intention). Normally you’d run stable software (such as 2.2 like the rest of us sane people use) so that you can send the FreeBSD team bugs relating to their system raher than bugs from gnome
Well, I don’t have the problem with report the bugs. All my apps that are installed by ports have been compiled with debug option (-g) and 5.1-CURRENT is on debug too. 🙂
i really would like to but waiting for it to his portage for gentoo. i know you can get the ebuilds somewhere else but i would rather wait. 2.3 is really promising and looking forward to 2.4.
GNOME 2.3 is never going to be in Portage. But that’s no excuse, installing the breakmygentoo.net ebuilds is easy. Uncomment “PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage” in /etc/make.conf, extract the gnome-2.3.3 tarball to /usr/local/portage, then “emerge gnome”. Add “breakme” to your USE flags to install with patches like spring-loaded folders, ximian fileselector, etc.
You’ll wonder why you hesitated …
am I the only one to have trouble accessing that website ?
“am I the only one to have trouble accessing that website ?”
works for me
duh, even the google cache is slow as hell.
After reading the change-log, it somewhat makes me regrest for upgrading to XD2
Simply the look and easy update with red-carpet. Even the file-dialog are better.
For a long time, I was a KDE fan, and then I found Fluxbox, and fell in love with that.
However, recently, Gnome has really gotten to me. KDE had a LOT of options, and Fluxbox was too light (I have a gig of RAM, I don’t need something that light). Gnome was just friendly. Yes, it doesn’t have every option under the sun, but it doesn’t need it. A lot of things work well together. gxine, Galeon, Nautilus, have really made me enjoy computing again. Oh sure, I get bugs every once in a while. Thigns go wrong. But I have the same problem with every platform. Though, Bug Buddy makes it easy and painless to submit bug reports (that people actually do get back to you about!).
When I was using KDE, I would always look at features in Gnome, and say “I want that…”. Same with Fluxbox. I don’t find myself envying other desktops with Gnome.
And for those that haven’t tried it, Galeon 2 is very, very nice. I was a big fan of Mozilla Firebird/Phoenix for a long while. It didn’t occur to me how slow XUL really is when you compare it to something like Galeon.
Yeah, this may sound like a simple fanatic posting, but I am just a happy Gnome user.
Just to clarify, I have also installed Ximian Desktop 2, whidh does indeed makes a world of difference.
There is an ebuild for gnome 2.3.3 on http://www.breakmygentoo.net.
Enjoy.
Lin-Matt, Karl11, Port001 and myself has set out to support a set GNOME current ebuilds, along with a set of patches to provide extra functionality.
You can get these on http://www.breakmygentoo.net – remember to check the forum thread and the changelog to see if there are any problems with current. A new tarball is made each day, and development is very rapid.
unless window manipulations LOOK absolutely perfect, i want an option to use wireframe bounding box ..whatever you call it.
i absolutely hate the fact that metacity forces opaque windows.
and no….. i’m not ripping out metacity and putting sawfish back.
it has it’s own problems.
unless window manipulations LOOK absolutely perfect, i want an option to use wireframe bounding box ..whatever you call it.
This is often discussed… But Havoc likes to focus on fixing the problems instead of making it optional. The advantages of this attempt are a much simpler codebase and less likeliness for bugs to be “overlooked”.
And while I agree that especially resizing windows still looks ugly, I could hardly call it unusable. So unless you can show that it’s a bigger problem for you than just an aesthetical one, it will probably never be included (but much work will happen on making it work and look better in the future).
However, if you are really serious about it, I think there is a patch floating around about it from SUN. See this mail:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg004…
oh yes one of the patches we have in our ebuilds enables you to select wireframe and disabling of rubberband animations on minimizing windows.
It is very funny, a few days ago I went to the library and looked into a book from the time of RedHat 6.2 and Debian 2.1, and there, they wrote that the GNOME desktop was so full of options that it was very confusing, and that, while KDE had less options, it was much clearer. Today it is the opposite…
And I really like the look-and-feel of Gnome 2, but (I have not tried XD2) it feels less integrated, and somehow less complete than KDE, in which it feels like everything works seamlessly together.
The integrated look, feel and funcality of Kde is what has caused me to switch from Gnome. Gnome 2.2 doesn’t seem like it is ready yet. The simple act of editing your menu is a chore. For now Kde(on Redhat 9 no-less) has got my attention. I do look forward to trying Gnome when they get the file chooser, menu editor, etc. figured out.
As it goes im currently in g2.2 on debian.. its a heck of alot smoother than the older revisions which continously crashed. im liking it a lot. very clean very nice.. the panels or whatever its called just works much better than kdes kicker. kicker really needs to be worked everything seamlessly goes together has to be said.. the themes also look much more consistent.. ive been nothing but impressed.. running ok on this dual 350 512 ram. pretty smooth still.. just cant wait to get my desktop back up and running.. no graphics card right now on it.. after i got it back up may switch it from kde to gnome.. ive already switched to gdm on it. i love kdes customisation options.. gnome really needs all the options available on kde configuration.
but as it stands its good.
[i]It is… When, Gnome isn’t working and there’s always another WM to use.. I use Openbox as my backup WM. 😉 [i]
Gnome isn’t a window manager. Gnome has used enlighenment, sawfish, and currently is using metacity as the default window manager. Your lack of correct terminology expresses your complete misunderstanding of the issues being discussed. Until we start using proper terminology we can’t even begin to have a meaningful discussion here.
I’m still waiting for Gnome to implement extendable toolbars. When the toolbar suprasses the aloted window space in an app such as Abiword, I can’t access those icons “invisibly” extending beyond the toolbar. Many other OS’s have a feature which allows me to access the icons extending off the toolbars. I’ve brought this to the attention to the gnome devs, but all they’ve said is that it would be implemented “soon”. Does anyone know the status of this feature in Gnome or GTK? Does it exist in KDE?