GNOME 2.13.3 has been released. As with the Linux kernel, odd-numbered releases are developmental releases; meaning that 2.13 is the developmental branch for 2.14. You can compile it using these jhbuild modulesets. Detailed notes on the release can be found here: platform, desktop, and bindings.
Can’t await to see screenshots of the changes in GNOME 2.14. Already read the roadmap, but there is still much time to the final release.
Sadly in Gentoo I don’t even have GNOME 2.12 unmasked yet. So I still have GNOME 2.10. Will it be possible to upgrade to GNOME 2.14 when having Ubuntu Breezy Badger installed? Or is there an upgrade to Dapper drake needed?
Greetings
Mike
The Ubuntu backport leader wrote an interesting post on backports at Distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20051212#3
Judging by that post, you will probably need a Dapper upgrade unless you build your own port.
I would suggest you’d try the just released ubuntu flight 2 cd…
You will need to upgrad to dapper to see 2.13 and 2.14 unless you use methods outside of the usual “apt-get ubuntu way of upgrades”, e.g. jhbuild or cvsgnome.
I’m really excited to see if the current profiling work has already payed off.
The most atractive to me are the code optimizations Federico and others made.
Finally some much needed optimizations and features in Gedit. New re-orderable tabs, faster startup, asyncronis file writing/reading.. Should really help me out whenever I use gedit to quickly update code or change a config while in Gnome.
And they also fixed the metacity window “snappiness” that was causing windows to be hard to move away from the edge. I will try this ASAP on Gentoo.
Still no block-select though! How long have we been asking for that?!
Block select in gedit? I know gedit is getting more and more like a IDE but that seems like a total IDE feature.
Still, not a bad idea.
that is something that needs to be implemented in gtk (GtkTextView widget which gedit is using)
>Sadly in Gentoo I don’t even have GNOME 2.12 unmasked yet. So I still have GNOME 2.10. Will it be possible to upgrade to GNOME 2.14 when having Ubuntu Breezy Badger installed? Or is there an upgrade to Dapper drake needed?<
It’s been unmasked for some time, have you tried recently? I just emerged 2.12.1 the other day.
Gnome 2.12 has been unmasked in Gentoo, although it’s still keyworded. I merged it the other day and it runs great. Here’s a quick command swiped from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_to_GNOME_unstable to add all the gnome packages to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file.
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~x86″ emerge -p gnome | awk ‘{print $4}’ | sed -e ‘s/.//g’ -e ‘s/-r*[0-9][0-9]*//g’ | >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
Once you’ve done that, simply: emerge gnome
Can you reassign mouse buttons already? And what about the PPD?
Can you reassign mouse buttons already? And what about the PPD?
Nah, Linus can take his KDE desktop and stick it up his ass.
How did such a derogatory comment get moderated +4? Have people really reached the point where vulgar posts get moderated up for a) being offensive and b) being rude and/or vulgar.
Well if Linus can get press coverage on all major linux related sites for a flame, why not mod the a post in “best linus tradition” up?
It’s funny: he was joking. (I’m a Gnome user and read his comment that way.)
I’m running the 2.13.3 on Slackware 10.2 and its great, pango and glib have memory/speed optimizations. They have resently change the way glib handles memory in 2.9.1 which is all good.
Anyone notice the memory usage in 2.13.3 now?, it’s way less then 2.12.x. Hopfully devls will get the startup times down in time for 2.14 since they ahve been working on this hard, solaris dtrace is really helping.
Great work so far.
Did you compile it yourself under Slackware? Or are you using one of the gnome releases available? If so, did you need to remove the older version of Gnome that came w/Slack before doing that?
I used jhbuild and then just used the update jhbuild 2.13.3 which just downloads, compiles and installs it for you. No there is no need to uninstall the older version.
It’s in this release, heer is my screen shot
http://suseux.commscentral.net:8000/nautilus-search.png
Works good even at this stage.
Gnome going for a vista look? Seriously, looks like Vista to me.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that a third party metacity theme called Alphacube? http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=29791
Not sure about the GTK2 theme, though. Could be som form of ish.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to see Gnome reducing memory usage and making the whole thing more responsible. If it is much faster, I might consider to switch back from KDE
Whats Vista got to do with it? it’s really nothing like a vista theme, but GNOME does have one and it’s nice.
It’s not the default, it’s one from gnome-look.org.
A rather good-looking theme, anyway; Clearlooks is also great.
Now, if only they could change that “Computer” icon on the default GNOME desktop: the KDE, OS X and Windows XP equivalents are much, much better, IMHO…
The only thing that looks like Vista is the window decoration, and that’s not standard in GNOME. The widgets in the screenshot are the standard Clearlooks, and look nothing like either Aqua or Vista.
A good music search, anyway! 😉 🙂
Maybe it is a Vista-like theme: isn’t Clearlooks the default in GNOME, nowadays…?
Perhaps Gnome can start putting useful features back into its releases. Hell, copying KDE is nice at this point. Just look at Konsole, shining example of a KDE app I can’t live without in my Gnome Desktop…or Kmail…Two shining examples of killer KDE apps.
For me, the only KDE application I require is KPPP. External dial-up modem support under GNOME is woeful at the moment. With something like this, I could drop KDE forever!
With 2.14 memory consuptions sould have been reduced.
We are at 2.13.3, so at this stage what kind of actions have been taken on that direction ?
> As with the Linux kernel, odd-numbered releases are developmental releases
Eegg, those Gnome people are living in the past… 🙂
after every gnome release, the same idea get on my mind, it’s sucks.
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