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GNOME 2.13.2 Released!

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The weather was a bit fresh today and a quick look at the weather applet
confirmed it. But after a few hours, it was getting hotter. After a
while, temperature was so high that you could feel that something big
was approaching and that the big thing would be coming out really soon.
And now we can all see it. Grab it while it's hot: the latest GNOME
release is out! Go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack
on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

For those thinking the previous paragraph is encrypted, GNOME 2.13.2 is
out. This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME
2.14.0, which will be released in March 2006.

To compile it, you can use the jhbuild modulesets available at:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.13.2/

bindings 2.13.2 statistics:
tar.gz: 18M total
tar.bz2: 12M total

desktop 2.13.2 statistics:
tar.gz: 157M total
tar.bz2: 112M total

platform 2.13.2 statistics:
tar.gz: 49M total
tar.bz2: 34M total

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable
and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes.
GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status.

For more informations about 2.13, the full schedule, the official module
lists and the proposed modules list, please see our new shiny 2.13 page
on the wiki:
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen

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Does anyone know anything by Anonymous George
Right click menu on panel by Anonymous George
RE: Right click menu on panel by Anonymous George

Add the "Disk Mounter"

Add the "Disk Mounter" applet. It's integrated with HAL so USB drives should appear when plugged in.

I'll try, thanks. by Anonymous George
Just an idea to the right menu by Anonymous George
nautilus-actions to the rescue by Anonymous George
Plugin by Anonymous George
Already done by Anonymous George

Standalone Epiphany

Anyone tried building epiphany against xulrunner? Is it functional and relative stable?
I'm really excited about this. Epiphany without installing the whole firefox. Maybe we will see firefox replaced by epiphany in the next or next+1 ubuntu release, since this was one of the major points against epiphany in default install. :)

Re: Standalone Epiphany by Anonymous George
Re by Anonymous George
Ubuntu compile Epiphany by Anonymous George

I can be harsh and trolly too

i have to agree that i dont see the point in epiphany

I have to disagree and I see the point of Epiphany.

It is def. more unstable than firefox ( or at least on every machine i used it ), starts the same speed.. has less nice features.. iss less functional ( still has problems resizeing windows with javascript.. which is a heavily used feature on many pages )

I use mostly Galeon and Epiphany on my Gnome desktop (everything on my box is compiled from original source). Firefox may be unstable, but my Galeon and Epiphany are not. They stay right there for days and lots of tabs open without problem.
For "start speed" I cannot tell because they start when I launch my session (the rare times I do that), and are like I left them, so this point is useless to me.
Features of Galeon are enough to me, and I discovered some weeks ago that features of Epiphany are enough too, but that depends on who you ask I suppose.
But the worst is that Firefox is not functional at all on a Gnome desktop.

Right now it seems to me that epiphany copies firefox where it is possible.. ( searchbar.. etc.. ) and i dont get the point in this

I think that's because you basically talk about things you do not understand.
Epiphany has always used the engine of Mozilla or the one of Firefox. So, the fact that it is surprising to you that Epiphany "copies Firefox" just shows your ignorance. I wonder then how you can make any valuable statement about Epiphany.

.. firefox nicely integrates into GNOME..

No it does not.
It does not integrate with the theme, it does not integrate with the WM, it does use the toolkit, it's a nightmare.
Only place I find Firefox is good is on Windows. This desktop is so inferior that of course Firefox looks good on it. I'm also sure it uses more the native toolkit in Windows than in Gnome.
Is 1.5 version any better regarding usage of the toolkit/WM/desktop on Linux ?

Firefox 1.5 broken on Linux

Is 1.5 version any better regarding usage of the toolkit/WM/desktop on Linux ?

I was quite surprised to see how bad Firefox 1.5 got under linux.
I don't know why but the drag and drop system is all broken.
It's almost impossible to drag an url over the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder to bookmark it.
Sometimes the Firefox will detect a drag and drop gesture for no reason, a simple movement of the mouse without pressing any button is enough. In such cases the whole desktop, not just Firefox, becomes unusable for a few seconds and Firefox is taking 100% of CPU.

RC2 no better

Yeah, and this bug is still in RC2 :(

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:wq

1.5 is a beta release. by Anonymous George
Not quite. by Anonymous George

I will give RC3 a chance

Hopefully RC3 will fix the drag and drop issue.
But I am a little bit sceptical since the 2 previous release candidates didn't improve the situation.

What a great intro *dacapo*

"The weather was a bit fresh today and a quick look at the weather applet
confirmed it. But after a few hours, it was getting hotter. After a
while, temperature was so high that you could feel that something big
was approaching and that the big thing would be coming out really soon.
And now we can all see it. Grab it while it's hot: the latest GNOME
release is out! "

What a great intro for a developers release.. it sounded like a poem :oD

Looking forward to GNOME 2.14
Greets
Waldgeist

Relevance?

Did any of your comments relate to the Gnome 2.13.2 release at all? Just curious, because my best guess at what your first paragraph was getting at was a feature that doesn't even exist in head of cvs, let alone any releases--so I'm guessing that I just misunderstood. Could you clarify?

hold down shift as you move

hold down shift as you move the window

Why would you want to turn by Anonymous George
Probably the same reason by Anonymous George