GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 419
supersloshy writes "Contrary to popular opinion, GNOME 3 will not be released in March next year. It has been delayed until September 2010, six months later. According to the news message, this is because 'our community wants GNOME 3.0 to be fully working for users and why we believe September is more appropriate.' GNOME 3's main goal is to re-define the ways people interact with the desktop, mainly through a new UI design (currently called 'GNOME Shell'), while GNOME 2.30, set for release in March, will have a focus on being stable. An early visual tour of GNOME 3 has been posted at Digitizor."
New Gnome? (Score:4, Informative)
80% percent of the tour looks like stuff in the current gnome. I mean we already have a NetworkManager and you already get a calendar when you click on the clock.
Virtual desktops get more recognition. The UI is more modal and Mac like. So what if their default configuration has just the one panel? Thats how I configure it anyway.
Feel Like I've Been Punched In The Stomach (Score:2, Informative)
"Gnome3 looks unusable anyways"
I just switched to Ubuntu 9.10 it has been ok. Very rough, buggy, and unpolished compared to Windows but I really wanted to soldier on.
Seeing this Gnome 3 garbage just makes me want to throw my hands up and go right back to Windows.
Something is very, very wrong with the Gnome developers to have them honestly thinking this fiasco of an effort is going to attract anyone but the most diehard of existing Linux users.
Grow the fuck Gnome devs. No one wants yet another retarded attempt at 'reinventing' the desktop. It's a solved problem. People have work to do with their computers. Gnome 3 is nothing but juvinille wanking.
Re:How can xterm be improved? (Score:5, Informative)
The "Docky" frontend is a fantastic dock experience as well.
Re:How can xterm be improved? (Score:0, Informative)
Re:How can xterm be improved? (Score:5, Informative)
You're looking for Katapult. And you know what - that was probably the first (or one of the first) apps of such kind.
Re:How can xterm be improved? (Score:4, Informative)
Linux needs this
Most Linux desktop environments have this. The default in Gnome is to use to pop up a run dialogue, that will autocomplete recently used apps. I configured the same thing in openbox, with lxpanel.
Re:How can xterm be improved? (Score:3, Informative)
2.) USE="-alsa -cups -dbus -gstreamer -kde -gnome -mono -opengl" emerge xfce4-meta firefox terminal openoffice eclipse-sdk
I am aware that xfce4-meta contains unneccessary cruft but you should be able to deal with it.
Re:Based on Mono (Score:1, Informative)
The new GUI is not based on Mono, it's based on JavaScript and GObjectIntrospection.
Re:How can xterm be improved? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Based on Mono (Score:1, Informative)
If the GUI changes aren't controversial enough the fact that it is based on Mono will probably kill it.
How is it based on Mono? It uses Javascript.
Stop spreading FUD please.
FUD. (Score:1, Informative)
Gnome 3.0 is not based upon Mono. It's still the 'old' C/glib framework. No Mono. Get your facts straight and stop spreading FUD. Who moderated that 'insightful'?
Re:Based on Mono (Score:3, Informative)
Except that it isn't. According the GnomeShell [gnome.org] page on Gnome Live, "Much of the code of the shell is written in Javascript and Clutter and GNOME platform libraries via GObject Introspection and JavaScript bindings for GNOME."
GObject Introspection is actually quite cool IMO, it makes it much easier to create bindings from dynamic languages libraries that use GObject, like the GNOME platform, GStreamer, etc.
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Re:How can xterm be improved? (Score:4, Informative)
Can you please explain why? I wrote a plugin for Gnome-Do last summer and found the code refreshingly simple and easy to grok. I'm a hard core C/Perl/Java coder, and I really like some of the features of C#, such as the in-line properties for accessors/mutators. The dbus hooks into Mono are first-class citizens, and MUCH easier to use than their C counterparts. Apart from the "omg a Microsoft engineer designed it" knee-jerk reaction, what is the complaint with Mono?
Re:...this is because...and why... (Score:2, Informative)