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« Getting the GNOME 2.26 release notes ready | GNOME & git »

Wednesday 18 March 2009

GNOME 2.26 is here

One good thing done for today :-) Many thanks to everybody involved, and especially Frédéric who worked hard on the release notes in the last few days, coordinating the work with translators! We made sure to release tarballs for almost everything, so we can deliver all the latest bug fixes and translations to the world.

People can already use this new version of GNOME since most distributions have packaged it; I also heard there will be virtual machines up soon for testing. It's really great to see our work reach the users that fast!

Now time to relax or party :-)

[21:22] | [GNOME] | [#507]

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1. kde fan [18/03/2009@22:18]

hi,

there is a small typo i think:

"The file manager can now to ask PackageKit to install support for a file you wish to open." -> "The file manager can now ask PackageKit to install support for a file you wish to open."

regards

2. ChamPro [18/03/2009@22:19]

Wheee! Exchange 2007 support will be great for on-the-job.

And hopefully Jaunty defaults to using PulseAudio for the volume control. Got tired of using the PulseAudio applet and the normal volume control applet together.

Though too bad fprintd doesn't seem to support my Dell E6400 reader. Not Gnome's fault.

3. Guillermo [18/03/2009@22:31]

Great news!
Congratulations!

4. Vincent [18/03/2009@22:39]

@kde fan: thanks! This should get fixed as soon as the update reaches the web server.

5. Marius Gedminas [18/03/2009@23:07]

GNOME is awesome. I love the attention to detail, such as producing pretty and inspirational release notes. (BTW is it just me, or is the Orca screenshot missing?)

6. Vincent [18/03/2009@23:20]

@Marius Gedminas: there's no orca screenshot, I think.

7. I Love [19/03/2009@19:42]

Gnome 2.26 is here, but has it really arrived? How long have we been in the gnome cycle? Has it really arrived yet? Gnome doesn't have a proper widget implementation. Gnome is stuck in the 90's thanks to being bought and controlled by corporations who refuse to let it evolve becuase it suits their needs. But what about the users needs. All the worth while addditions to gnome have come from outside of gnome. And even they are incredibly buggy. Wake up people it's 2009! We need proper Web 2.0 interfaces. We need better toolkit for gtk3. As long as people just drink the koolaid and clap every time there is gnome 2.xx release. Kde's point/bugfix release from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 had more changes than this full release of gnome. It took gnome nearly a decade to get tabs in nautilus and have the ability to restore deleted items from the trash can. Kde was rewritten and had those features done and taken care of. That is twice in the same time period. I know we've been hearing all this talk about improving gnome but so far all I see is talk but no action. That's all gnome is, just a big clumsy piece of enterprize software not fit for the average person's desktop. Until gnome's devs stop being so out of touch gnome will never catch up to xfce, fluxbox, or kde. Much less Windows or OSX. Just attempting to copy the OSX menubar doesn't make you any better it just makes you look more ridiculous.

8. Cypher [19/03/2009@23:02]

@I Love: agreed. Someone needs five minutes of courage here. How far can you go with a toolkit like GTK ? Please leave GNOME 2.x behind, and move on... GNOME 3.0 based on Qt, that's the only way to finally become modern and user-oriented. Evolution is not a good way to go, sometimes you really need a revolution to change and improve properly (have a look at the current world crisis, and how this opportunity can be used to change the world radically... Do the same with GNOME... five minutes of courage...)

9. jospoortvliet [20/03/2009@15:44]

I Love! It is funny to see you here too... Does that mean you moved on from trolling about KDE to trolling about Gnome, or do you play both games?

(I'm not saying you don't have a point, now and then, btw, it's the way you express them)

@vincent: congrats on the release!

10. Darwin Survivor [20/03/2009@17:02]

@i love.
As much as I think that gnome needs a revolution to implement proper and easier to write applets as well as allowing any software to use it's PIM config (I want thunderbird's calendar/contacts/etc and kopetes contacts/status to integrate into gnome just like evolution and pidgin), I hope they don't do it for a while. KDE4 is still not quite done (I expanded the taskbar to 75% screen size and couldn't shrink it!) and the last thing I need right now is for BOTH of these environments to become unstable simultaneously. Almost all the environments need a revolution, but for the love of god, please don't all do it at the same time!!!

11. Vincent [29/03/2009@23:19]

@Cypher: Err, I don't see how having GNOME based on Qt would make it more modern or user-oriented -- don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Qt is bad; it's just that the toolkit won't fix everything for you.

And each time someone suggests this idea, that person ignores the fact that it would take many years to make this happen (without adding any other improvement to GNOME). Doesn't really sound like the best way forward, if you ask me.

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GNOME 2.26 is here

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