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GNOME 2.12 released

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

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Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-09-09 06:12.

Of course not. If anything, the performance is worse since GTK 2.8 is now slower than ever. The only people who defend GTK are those who say "It's fast enough for me"... tellingly, anyone who has to use GTK in direct competition with other toolkits all slate it for its piss-poor performance -- so eclipse, Mozilla (both have GTK backends) and even Gnumeric (has a win32 port) all have other toolkits as options and when they recompile using them the performance improvements are remarkable. In response to complaints about this crappy performance the GTK boys all say "not our problem" in direct contradiction to all the evidence. No wonder things have never improve... the maintainers are lazy idiots.

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