“developerWorks is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Linux zone’s popular GNOMEnclature column. In this incarnation of the column, Mikael Hallendal and Richard Hult of CodeFactory will give you the inside information you need to make the best use of the new GNOME 2 platform. In this series, you’ll learn how to use the new and improved libraries available with GNOME 2 so that you can write your own Nautilus view, panel applets, and much more. In this article, Mikael and Richard reopen the series with a gentle introduction to GTK+ 2, the new foundation for the GNOME 2 desktop environment. By the end of this article, you’ll have written and compiled a few sample GTK+ 2 programs and have a good understanding of GTK+ 2’s many improvements over GTK+ 1.” Detailed article, introducing the new features of GTK+ 2, such as double buffering (helps avoid flickering), full antializing, a powerful textview and more.
Getting ready for GNOME 2, Part 1
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Dont those Anti-Alias fonts look good..One of the reasons I currently prefer KDE over Gnome is the fact that it looks to much better looking, oh and the far superior applications tool.
I meant too not tool.
…finish Gnome 1 first?
A) They’ll never finish, only progress.
B) GNOME-2 is simply the progression of GNOME 1.
Gnome is faster than Kde,compared with 1.x version of both.as for Gnome 2 and Kde 3, the case will not be changed any ways