GNOME 2.12 Beta 1 Development Release

with your computer ...

I'd rather work with the Gnome any day, looking at the 2 screenshots :

- The Gnome screenshot shows the default theme for Gnome, so that screenshots are consistant. The translucent one in Windows is not the default, because the site from where it comes wanted to show the features. It requires high end graphic card, while the default Gnome is meant to be usable on most configurations. My Gnome of course is very different than the default, so no worry there.
- Gnome has a menu and some buttons described, Vista has nothing of that
- The path bar is easily usable in Gnome, as the buttons are big enough. in Vista, there are no visual cues as to where you can click in the path bar, and the triangles are really tiny.
- The dropdown list is not aligned with Pictures in Vista
- The underlying system is completely exposed in Vista (D:)
- The menu is under the path bar in Vista. Well why not. But it's a confusing menu.
- There is a list of folders or queries on the left, with no clear separation from the list of files, on Vista
- Name, Date Taken, ... are not aligned with the data below in Vista
- Gnome feels integrated, Vista seems like 2 different things pasted together. I mean, it's as if the borders of the app with the pathbar are one thing, and inside the app is another thing, like with old windows managers on Linux. Look at the pathbar : everything is transparent except the selected path and the dropdown menu.

The only thing I see going for the Vista screenshot is the transparent frame, but you will not see that in a screenshot of Gnome meant to show a feature that is not related to eye candy (like metacity composite support).
But it should be noted that both screenshots are from betas, Vista coming in 2006 if all goes well, and Gnome coming in 2005.
So your whining is another case of comparing apples and oranges. It would have been the same if you compared the Gnome screenshot to Enlightenment.hots.