Episode IV: A New Hope

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I originally said that I wasn't going to do this, but it seems that there was an awful lot of demand for it. Being one to cave into peer pressure, I thought, "why not, we may as well pimp the shiny features". Even though this is very late this time, these are still pre-release, so they could contain errors, omissions, be missing that last minute change we haven't made yet, &c. All in all, the document is subject to change at any moment.

Anyway, for your weekend reading enjoyment:
A Look at GNOME 2.14

Also, for those of you who got here via other means and did not see my blog post, but love GNOME: check out the GNOME Journal. The latest issue just came out yesterday and it's really good.
Posted 17/2/06 19:28 — 36 comments

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From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 12:05 (UTC)

typo :)

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There's a typo in the "Look Through Any Window" section: "To help users who utilise remote X windows, Metacity will mark windows that are running on a different host to Metacity itself. This will help users identify what machine a graphical application is running on and help to prevent possibly destructive tasks from accidently being run on the wrong machine."
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-17 13:36 (UTC)

Re: typo :)

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I always misspell that word.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 12:26 (UTC)

Oooo!

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Thanks for this page, its awesome - I really didn't know there was THIS much to look forward to in GNOME 2.14. Now Im excited :)
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 12:27 (UTC)

Small typo

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"Introducing Deskbar, an fabulous" ;-)
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-17 13:35 (UTC)

Re: Small typo

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Thanks. This is what happens when you change adjectives.
From:[info]kadeton
Date:2006-02-17 14:26 (UTC)

Re: Small typo

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Let me guess: "awesome". ;)
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-17 15:12 (UTC)

Re: Small typo

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I wish I'd thought to use the word awesome.

It's more of a Stephanie word.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 12:57 (UTC)

Wonderful

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That's a really sexy preview. Hope you keep doing them for the next releases.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 13:25 (UTC)

Marketing is everything. CONGRATS!

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GNOME needs more pages like this. Excellent work!
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 13:31 (UTC)

Still missing

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All these wonderful features and Metacity *still* can't remember the size and/or placement of a window. What a shock - GNOME developers continue to ignore the user community and do what they think is cool.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-17 13:39 (UTC)

Re: Still missing

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There is a good technical reason for this. Doing this kind of thing can break lots of applications, particularly older applications that can't deal with the window manager giving them a different allocation to the one they requested.

Additionally, there is no reason this functionality has to be in Metacity, thanks to libwnck and the window manager spec we share with the other modern X11 desktops, you have have this functionality in a third party piece of software like Devil's Pie.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 13:34 (UTC)

Thanks

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Hi Davyd, Thanks for the nice write-up! It's good to see all new features in GNOME written in a nice short overview with pretty screenshots. You're helping the community greatly with these documents. Can't wait for 2.14 to arrive in Debian experimental to give it a try.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 13:45 (UTC)

Thank you so much Davyd!!

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Thanks a million for this review of the new features!!!

When i read you didnt want to do this review for 2.14 i was sad, because i have been waiting for this since the one for 2.12!!!

I love the way you show the new features. I think this is the correct way to make good advertising of gnome. People need to see the features and get excited, because the hard work of the developers deserve it!

Than you again Davyd.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 14:08 (UTC)

thank you!

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thank you a lot for doing this! it's really appreciated!
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 15:51 (UTC)

Network Manager

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Nice preview, but you didn't mention NetworkManager's coolness anywhere.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-17 17:16 (UTC)

Re: Network Manager

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NetworkManager, while cool, isn't actually part of GNOME :(

Very exciting stuff coming from that corner though. Our it-just-works-ness is reaching dizzying heights.
From:[info]fooishbar
Date:2006-02-18 18:18 (UTC)

Re: Network Manager

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From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 18:51 (UTC)

fast user switching? opengl - 3d required?

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I don't see a mention of fast user switching. did it get forgotten?

Also, to enjoy the OpenGL compositor, is this 2d opengl or 3d? Do I need working opengl 3d acceleration? I am a sad owner of a savage chipset-based notebook and getting 3d to work meant downloading drivers from opendesktop which worked on the notebook but screwed up the external monitor.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-18 03:43 (UTC)

Re: fast user switching? opengl - 3d required?

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Shit. I did forget it. You'll find it there now. Part of the reason for doing these is to get people who are excited and want to run and test our betas. Part of it is also to find out what we've missed that belongs in the release notes, so thankyou.

You'll find FUSA is mentioned now.

I'm not sure on the OpenGL requirements of the compositor.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 20:24 (UTC)

I love you, I love GNOME

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I Davyd, I've just seen your usual prerelease tour, you rock, GNOME too ;)

I think this is a good way of do marketing!

PS: Do you love GNOME? I hope yes :D
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-18 03:36 (UTC)

Re: I love you, I love GNOME

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I am filled with the love.

Use. Love. GNOME.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-18 11:31 (UTC)

Re: I love you, I love GNOME

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I Davyd, I LOVE GNOME too :D

Thank you for your usual pre-release page. I've blogged about it in my blog here http://kugghiuns.altervista.org/xoen_blog/2006/02/18/gnome-214-preview/
So I do marketing too ;)


Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 21:42 (UTC)

Thanks!

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Thanks heap for doing this - it makes it a hell of a lot easier to explain things to people who don't track GNOME development (eg. win32 people), and just have a vague idea that "there's GNOME and KDE and they keep trying to be as good as Windows and they keep rewriting bits" ;)
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 23:28 (UTC)

Ekiga

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Is it just me, or does Ekiga to everyone seem like it always ducks under HIG zealots... the interface looks terribly disorganised, as always.

From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-18 03:26 (UTC)

Re: Ekiga

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Getting a softphone to fit with a strict interpretation of the HIG would be quite a challenge. The UI for Ekiga still looks strange, but perhaps it will evolve over time.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-18 12:47 (UTC)

Re: Ekiga

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I've just tryed Ekiga a little bit, The GUI isn't perfect, but seems to be usable.
I don't know how to use it, I've tryed to find "someone", and chat with him but probably I've done something wrong somewhere. I don't know. I will find a friend for test ;)

Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-18 16:44 (UTC)

Re: Ekiga

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Just report a bug if it feels disorganised to you and suggest improvements.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-18 17:03 (UTC)

Re: Ekiga

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Indeed.
The GUI is mostly a matter of taste. And for my taste it's not disorganized (you can't disorganize that less items that much it hurts).
But my taste is of course not everyones taste. So, people that think it is bad, should say WHY it is bad, otherwise there's no difference to what trolls do (and I'll treat them like trolls then).
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-18 04:34 (UTC)

Thanks

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Thanks for taking the time to create and post the 2.14 preview. It made my Friday!
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-18 15:39 (UTC)
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Simply thanks man, you made it again. These summaries are very healthy and good for marketing.

Keep it doin.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-21 18:18 (UTC)

Wireless

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How about wireless?
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-21 21:03 (UTC)

Dapper Drake gonna come with GNOME 2.14

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Don't worry fellas Ubuntu's "Dapper Drake" is going to ship all the advanced features on GNOME 2.14. LAst time even for 2.12 ubuntu made live CD for its Demo. Ubuntu Rox! It may be out on April 20th. So stay alive!
--Lunatic 2.0 \m/ (http://geek-tale.blogspot.com)
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-21 21:23 (UTC)

Re: Wireless

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Dapper Drake is going to have a full wireless support. Don't worry pronto its gonna rok!
From:[info]ezhan
Date:2006-02-26 14:08 (UTC)
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39245577,00.htm

This is the truth. Once apon a time I was a fan of GNOME, but now KDE is a way better and modern.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-26 14:35 (UTC)
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If Linus jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
From:[info]ezhan
Date:2006-02-26 15:01 (UTC)
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I have my own opinion. Linus just says what I'm seeing and feeleing too. I'm on KDE since KDE 3.2, what is way before this Linus posting...
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