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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.14!

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2006-03-15 19:15. GNOME
GNOME

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.14, 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 2.14 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.14 start page.

All about GNOME 2.14: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/

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

Enjoy!

- The GNOME Release Team

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gnomealicious by Anonymous George
Linking to nautilus from Firefox by Anonymous George

Security nightmare?

Submitted by LosD on Sat, 2006-03-18 17:23.

Sounds like a path to nasty IE-like holes, or DoS holes at best...

But I could be wrong, if it could be implemented safely, it might be a good idea

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.14!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 11:30.

I know that there has been a lot of hard work from very skilled and dedicated people, but Gnome lacks the simpliicty that has been the hallmark of unix. Gnome has become too bloated with two many dependencies. I can't believe how many processes that it takes to run it.

There is also this desperate race to outfeature KDE rather
than finding a way to colloborate.

It's time to emulate MS and turn features off by default
(or remove them.) I fully appreciate that is is a contrarian view.

How to improve your

Submitted by rehdon on Fri, 2006-03-17 06:23.

How to improve your relationship with reality and have a more meaningful post:

1. s/GNOME/KDE/
2. s/KDE/MS/
3. s/MS/GNOME
4. repost on a KDE forum

rehdon

You're kidding right

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 15:12.

"There is also a desperate race to outfeature KDE rather than finding a way to collaberate."

You have got to be joking, outfeature KDE, if there is a 'desparate race', its with regard to stripping out as many of the few features that remain as possible.

Terminal speed by Anonymous George

Troll and off-topic to boot...

Submitted by newren on Thu, 2006-03-16 19:15.

Comparing to gnome-terminal-2.12.3 is off-topic. Did you not look at the release notes (which suggest that gnome-terminal-2.14.0 is three times faster than gnome-terminal-2.12.3)?

It's easy to be fast when

Submitted by wdomburg on Thu, 2006-03-16 16:40.

It's easy to be fast when you have a limited feature set; i.e. no xft, no unicode, no xim, no rtl rendering, no tabbing, et cetera. It would be interesting to bench against an rxvt fork with more modern features though (e.g. materm).

14 s is 33% faster than 21

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 11:48.

14 s is 33% faster than 21 s.

Yes, but 21 s is 50% slower by Anonymous George

Hurry on and upgrade!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 11:40.

Well hurry up and test it with gnome-term from 2.14 then!

Quickly now I want to see the results!

Good

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 10:50.

Good job! Gnome Team.

Still..

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Thu, 2006-03-16 06:50.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323724
Still not fixed :(((

Found out why

Submitted by LosD on Sat, 2006-03-18 17:40.

Hmmm, that IS pretty strange, it's 3 months old now, marked urgent and critical, 2.14 is set as the target...

And
Comment #28 from Guilherme de S. Pastore (developer, points: 14)
2006-03-06 23:58 UTC
Making this a 2.14 blocker.

Oh, here's why:
Comment #31 from Rodrigo Moya (control-center developer, points: 21)
2006-03-13 23:09 UTC
seems the patch is not working in all cases, isn't that the case? That's why,
after some discussion, we didn't include the patch in the final 2.14.0. If the
patch is proven to fix it for all people that can replicate it, we can put it
for the 2.14.1 release.

Maybe they should've put it in for those that it does save the day for, but on the other hand, better safe than sorry...

Don't remove subject line!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 07:37.

Please don't remove the subject line, I had to search for your comment (By changing the comment number until I hit it)

- How is this even possible, normally it fills some of your messages first words into the subject line? Maybe it is because he had a http://somethingsomething.com as the first line...

The URL of the message is
http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2621/40662#comment-40662

Dennis

well, you could've just

Submitted by guzerat on Thu, 2006-03-16 08:51.

well, you could've just expanded the thread

2.14

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 04:05.

Sure, it seems like this release uses a lot less memory and is a bit faster, but not really that much. And I don't understand why they claim that XTerm is slower than Gnome-Terminal. For me XTerm had always been about five times faster. Now though Gnome-Terminal beats it.

The things I like about this release is the magnetic windows-feature of Metacity, fast user switching, not much else.

The things I hate about this release includes only one thing: the gnome-screensaver. It really sucks. Alot.

And one thing I just don't understand is this NetworkManager. No matter what, it wants to assign some crazy ip addresses to my network interfaces when plain dhcpcd assigns the correct values.
-WereCatf

Don't understand?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2006-03-17 07:32.

How can you not understand that they clain xterm is slower than gnome terminal. There have been a lot of speedups in this release, were not talking about the old verisons ????

恭喜！恭喜！ by Anonymous George

If the original poster is

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 22:14.

If the original poster is asking about running gnome on Win32, it is possible through a Cygwin/X11 environment.

http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/

oh!!! Congratulations!

Submitted by DigitALL on Wed, 2006-03-15 20:51.

Congratulations to the Gnome Team!
i was waiting for today since a long time ago...using the unstable releases from "dapper"!!
i love the enhancements, features and the hyper performance in the system!

Martin Medina
www.digitallred.com.ar

HURRRA!!!!

Submitted by almejo on Wed, 2006-03-15 20:06.

I was waiting all day for this!!!

Now I can rest and wait another six month for the next release!!!

One of the best features of this release is deskbar-applet... i can't use my computer without it :D

Congratulations to all the developers!!!

Underbart

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 09:39.

Me, myself and my Gnome are certainly a happy couple!

Regards to the Gnome Folks!

deskbar-applet?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2006-03-16 07:16.

what is that? Screenshots?

Release notes

Submitted by almejo on Thu, 2006-03-16 08:33.

at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14

url

Submitted by reinouts on Thu, 2006-03-16 08:18.

http://raphael.slinckx.net/deskbar/