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Gnome 2.12.1 Released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-10-05 18:01. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

The first point release of the stable 2.12.x series of Gnome has been
released. This release includes the latest bugfixes and other
improvements such as updated translations and is the first in a series
of point releases.

Read the full set of changes below.

Sources will be available from the following URLs:

Platform:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.12/2.12.1/sources
Desktop:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.12/2.12.1/sources
Bindings:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/bindings/2.12/2.12.1/sources

Enjoy
- The Gnome Release Team

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Gnome objective by Anonymous George

gnome-vfs

Submitted by foo on Thu, 2005-10-06 16:29.

Well, last time I bitched about gnome-vfs sucking and some of the replies led me to some threads that indicated that a nice network transparent environment for gnome is a long way away. Everyone is talking about a new vfs backend. That sucks. Looks like we'll have to wait another year or so.

oh... how constructive ! by Anonymous George
who cares ? by Anonymous George

Gnome 2.12 was a bit of a disappointment

Submitted by WareKala on Thu, 2005-10-06 11:50.

Maybe the biggest thing added in 2.12 was the addition of Evince. But I had used it already a while before that. I have yet to see any good come from the use of GTK+ 2.8 and Cairo; nothing has improved, though the speed has dropped only slightly. No one seems to even consider using glitz, just happily ignore all the performance enhancements it could bring with it. The sidepanel in Nautilus is still useless. Why not for example show all the available information about the currently selected file? Why just show the name of the folder you are in, and it's creation date? I only hope the next release will have some bigger changes.

PS. GNOME is still a good desktop environment and has alot of useful stuff.
-WareKala

Side panel by Anonymous George
glitz backend for cairo is by Anonymous George

Help out, don't whine!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-10-06 15:31.

"The sidepanel in Nautilus is still useless. Why not for example show all the available information about the currently selected file?"

We're considering exactly this [1], but still have to make some architectural considerations, i.e. what to do for multiple files. If you can come up with architectural ideas, join the boat!

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00211.html

sidebar info for multiple files by Anonymous George

I'm not whining, I was expressing an opinion..

Submitted by WareKala on Fri, 2005-10-07 03:52.

Oh, and I can't really help. I have no idea of the inner workings of Nautilus and can't code anything related. Also I really, really hate mailing-lists. I just think the sidepanel should just show how many files are selected and their total size, if multiple files were selected. And anything else common between those files, f.ex. if they are all PDF-files..
-WareKala

Good suggestion

Submitted by potyl on Sat, 2005-10-08 01:56.

Showing the attributes that are common between all selected elements seems like a decent solution.
This is exactly what Eclipse does when multiple elements are selected and the user invokes a context menu.
The only options available in the context menus are the actions that are common to all elements.

One more suggestion

Submitted by WareKala on Sat, 2005-10-08 06:58.

As someone already mentioned, the ability to easily eject removable media would be good. So either give an icon in the toolbar or a button in the sidepanel when the user is browsing removable media. This would greatly simplify things. I am constantly annoyed by the need to minimize everything to be able to right-click the CD icon on my desktop to be able to eject it.
-WareKala

How does it do it now?

Submitted by WareKala on Tue, 2005-10-11 11:07.

At the moment, if you have the removable media open in Nautilus and eject it, Nautilus reverts back to the user's home dir. I just tested. So, either leave it as it is, or something which I would prefer more, revert to the previously visited dir. Not the upper directory, but the previously shown location. Why? I just see it would be the logical way, and the user would surely recognize the location, rather than understand why Nautilus opens some unknown location.

Oh, and Windoze Explorer handles it by just moving on to the next item in the list. So if you've got CD-ROM at D: and DVD at E:, it'll try to show E: if you eject the CD in D:. (And if there's no disc in E:, it'll pop up an annoying window telling you to insert disc. This in Win2k)

And again, if I try to eject a CD while I have a Nautilus view the CD, Nautilus apparently closes all the files as it successfully ejects the CD. But when it can't eject the CD, it should inform the user about it and tell why.
-WareKala

PS. I hate bugzilla, so anyone else may submit my suggestions as enhancement requests to Nautilus. Just gimme some credit =P

Can help! by Anonymous George

In here?

Submitted by WareKala on Sat, 2005-10-08 07:53.

I don't think any of the developers hang around in FootNotes, reading comments like these, so I don't think it does really help much. But that's the life.
-WareKala

make yourself heard by Anonymous George
gnome-2.12 by Anonymous George
Ridley by Anonymous George
incremental changes by Anonymous George

Even so

Submitted by WareKala on Fri, 2005-10-07 03:54.

Even if glitz is not recommended yet, it could atleast be experimented with. And btw, my whole distro is compiled from sources...I just fail to see how does that change anything.
-WareKala

Well, if you've compiled by Anonymous George
Doh by Anonymous George
Little Mistake by Anonymous George
No mistake by Anonymous George