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Is there an easy-to-get changelog of these development releases ?
I want to know what’s been fixed and implemented !
Only the CVS changelog AFAIK.
It will be really nice if the GNOME Project Release team or maintainers would write up a brief changlelog during every release. I know this is a development release, but I’m sure changelogs would be useful to developers and testers too.
In any case, more power to GNOME! Users with first impressions, please kindly post your comments, with screenshots if necessary. 🙂
<quote>Users with first impressions</quote>
I am impressed
just take a look,
http://netart.eu.org/baza/gnome255.png
(or a lighter same – jpeg)
http://netart.eu.org/baza/gnome255.jpeg
how sweety BigFoot is.
Are you using the fd.org Xserver? I was noticing the drop shadows.
Yes,
xati + xcompmgr
Ah, thank you very much. The screen shots are great. Any performance improvements?
since 2.5.4 no,
but since gtk+ 2.3.1
there is a little speed improvement..
..I think
(with linux-2.6.? is just fine)
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Some fine gnome stuff:
http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/SubProjects
What distro is that?
It’s Debian experimental
)
and which theme is that – I like how the window border appearss to be part of the window…
well, there is
industrial based “Solo” gtk theme with “metal” engined menu panel,
gorilla stock icons,
and customized “Digital Cream” metacity border.
if you like “how the window border appearss to be part of the window…” you may also try customize light “More Industrial” metacity theme, it’s not pixmap based.
<quote>try customize</quote>
try to customize, of course.
Solo:
http://www.themedepot.org/itemdetail.php4?id=1063
Digital-Cream:
http://www.users.monornet.hu/linux/index2.html
MoreIndustrial:
http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity/530.php
Many thanks for all the info!
Did you compile the freedesktop-xserver yourself or is there a Debian-package for it? Is it possible to install the fd-xserver in parallel to good old XFree4? I like this screenshot very much, I think I have to try this out!
>Did you compile the freedesktop-xserver yourself or is there a Debian-package for it?
Just use the instructions on the xserver freedesktop site, they work well, I compiled it last week
>Is it possible to install the fd-xserver in parallel to good old XFree4?
Yes.
I don’t expect any debs to appear soon (I haven’t heard of any),
The first release of fd.o’s xserver is expected in about a year from now.
This script:
http://freedesktop.org/~sk/xserver-inst.sh
will get, comlile and install all the stuff in /opt/fdo location (it’s up to you),
so you don’t have to uninstall the Xfree86 tree.
You may also use jhbuild:
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/Software/jhbuild
(it’s prefered way)
I start session this way:
#!/bin/bash
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/fdo/lib
sudo /opt/fdo/bin/Xati -screen 1280x1024x32x85 -mouse /dev/input/mice,5 :0 & xterm -display :0 -e “/opt/fdo/bin/xcompmgr& garnome-session”
and try to compile xserver with –enable-dri
<quote>Is there an easy-to-get changelog of these development releases ?</quote>
http://gnomedesktop.org/release/2.5.5-changes.txt
Are you able to get a refresh rate above 60 hz using Xserver? I am trying to use Xnvidia but cannot seem to gain anything over 60 hz.
No problem with Xati and Xfbdev,
I’ve got kernel driven framebuffer (radeonfb on 2.6.2)