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GNOME 2.13.3 Development Release

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-12-14 18:57. Gnome 2.x

We are rolling, rolling, rolling another release of the never ending
improvements to the GNOME desktop. Naysayers got ya down? Feeling
misunderstood? Well now is the time to step into the real world and
celebrate. The latest GNOME development release is out! Go download it.
Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, and translate
it.

GNOME 2.13.3 has been released. This is our third development release on
our road towards GNOME 2.14.0, which will be released in March 2006.

Changes:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.13/2.13.3/NEWS

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.13/2.13.3/NEWS

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.13/2.13.3/NEWS

To compile it, you can use the jhbuild modulesets available at:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.13.3/

bindings 2.13.3 statistics:
tar.gz: 19M total
tar.bz2: 12M total

desktop 2.13.3 statistics:
tar.gz: 156M total
tar.bz2: 112M total

platform 2.13.3 statistics:
tar.gz: 49M total
tar.bz2: 34M total

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
--------------------------

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

very very good!!!!!!! by Anonymous George

edge resistance needs to be optional

Submitted by foo on Fri, 2005-12-16 10:51.

I'm using the new metacity also and I find the edge resistance to be really annoying personally. I like dragging windows half way off the screen so I can just see one part of it. Can this be turned off?

Beta

Submitted by murraycu on Thu, 2005-12-22 09:53.

You are using Beta software so that you can find these problems so that they can be fixed.

We are talking about by TopDown

You're still using GNOME? by Anonymous George

You can still drag it offscreen

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-12-16 21:02.

You can still drag it offscreen, just don't let go of the mouse button before 3/4 of a second is up.

Well sure, but that's pretty

Submitted by Daniel Borgmann on Sat, 2005-12-17 19:18.

Well sure, but that's pretty annoying in the long run. I regularly move windows aside to take a look behind them (it's faster than shading and unshading), so that adds up to a lot of waiting time. I like the edge resistance, but I'm very doubtful if the extra hard screen edge resistance is worth it. Of course that's what testing is for and I'm sure that the result will be fine.

Re: edge resistance needs to be optional

Submitted by horga_83 on Fri, 2005-12-16 17:23.

>I'm using the new metacity also and I find the edge resistance to be >really annoying personally. I like dragging windows half way off the >screen so I can just see one part of it. Can this be turned off?

Yes please make it so it can be turned off. Can you please also make Metacity so I can unmaximize a horizontal or vertcal resize.

Should already work... by Anonymous George

Re: Should already work...

Submitted by horga_83 on Sat, 2005-12-17 15:39.

Yes I'm running Ubuntu Breezy, the latest GNOME and it doesn't work.
I have bound shift-ctrl-h to horizontal maximize.

Works fine here

Submitted by newren on Sat, 2005-12-17 18:24.

Works fine here; I suggest checking to see if Ubuntu has any patches that is breaking something, or check to see if it only works on certain windows or something.

Search!

Submitted by Theo on Thu, 2005-12-15 05:20.

Beagle search from within Nautilus is a nice new feature. Can't wait to try it!

Hmm

Submitted by WareKala on Thu, 2005-12-15 05:09.

I checked the roadmap for 2.14 and it didn't really seem like I can expect something new and interesting from these new releases. But I still could find two items of interest: reduced memory footprint, and Metacity edge resistance. I actually have Metacity 2.13.? installed and it works just perfectly. Windows are now alot easier to manage with my touchpad =)
-WareKala

Agreed by Anonymous George

It's been here for a long

Submitted by georg_H on Fri, 2005-12-16 16:38.

It's been here for a long time: just needed to press shift while drag.

Not quite by Anonymous George

Please link to News/ChangeLogs in the story

Submitted by newren on Wed, 2005-12-14 19:09.

Please link to the NEWS/ChangeLogs in the story; they were in John's follow up email (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2005-December/msg00002.html). For reference, the links are:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.13/2.13.3/NEWS
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.13/2.13.3/NEWS
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.13/2.13.3/NEWS