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GNOME 2.12 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-09-07 13:45. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.12, the latest
version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort
by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies,
artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great
release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor!

You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.12 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.12 start page.

All about GNOME 2.12: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working
on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2006.

Taking away from spatial management

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-09-07 19:49.

I was of the understanding that using file names and extensions went against the idea of having a spatial view. Which is why the GNOME UI took away the list views etc for rework.

In regards to sorting by filetype in GNOME, following with the spatial idea, there should be a menu option to do this, but GNOME shouldn't make visible to the casual eye that it is doing this.

I would think in the purest sense of spatial views, filename would display, file extensions would remain hidden, and wouldn't appear unless you mouse over the files and read the meta data tooltip which shows file type, file permissions etc.

I hope my understanding is correct, but I am open to correction :)

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