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GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1

Submitted by stro on Fri, 2003-05-09 23:41. Gnome 2.x

The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1 "Daddy Walrus", is ready for
your bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate
download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors
tar.gz: 117M total
tar.bz2: 88M total

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
--------------------------

This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for
testing and hacking purposes ONLY. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd
minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.3.x series
will eventually become the official 2.4 release. Please check the 2.3 start
page for more information: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/

Proposed Modules
----------------

The following modules have been PROPOSED for inclusion in the next major
GNOME release. Keep in mind that not all of them may be accepted.

battfink - Energy saving and battery status utility.

epiphany - A GNOME web browser based on Gecko.

fontilus - Font management and information tools.

galeon - A GNOME web browser based on Gecko.

gcalctool - A full-featured calculator.

gedit-plugins & gtksourceview - Split off plugins and a syntax
highlighting textview for gedit.

gnome-mag, gnome-speech, gnopernicus & gok - Screen magnification, text to
speech, on screen keyboard and accessibilty features control tool.

gnomemeeting - Standards-based audio and video conferencing.

gnome-system-tools - Cross-platform user-friendly system configuration
tools.

gpdf - An xpdf-based PDF viewer.

gswitchit & libxklavier - Keyboard layout switching and configuration
tools.

gucharmap - A full-featured unicode character map tool.

nautilus-cd-burner - Integrated CD burning tool for Nautilus (requires
as-yet-unreleased changes to Nautilus for full integration and is
currently Linux-specific).

seahorse - GPG/PGP key management utility, with Nautilus integration.

themus - Theme management and information tools (will most likely be
added to the control-center module).

totem - A sound and video player (currently based on Xine, with GStreamer
support being worked on).

zenity - Provides graphical prompts and dialogues for shell scripts.

Build Requirements
------------------

- The tarballs included in the release. :-)

- Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as
image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be included with or
available for your distribution.

- Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and configuration, from
http://fontconfig.org/ OR XFree86 4.3.x.

- Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue
file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop
components for documentation).

Happy testing!

- The GNOME Release Team

Gnome will NEVER have a new file selector

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2003-05-16 07:59.

The "new" file selector allegedly ;-) in GTK 2,4 will not make it for GNOME 2.4?

Personally, an improved file dialog is my most anticipated feature. I've been waiting for it for almost 4 years, looked at all the patches and GUI markups, only to see it always pushed back.

I'm not trying to trivialize or downplay the other excellent GNOME work, but the current dialog turns people off big time! It looks like a motif window and has all the usability of Netscape Navigator 4.

If I have to wait for 2.6 GNOME, then I guess I have to wait. I appreciate all the hard work... the artists and programmers (also artists...) do.

I wouldn't have to dual-boot this computer if it had a better dialog... my wife doesn't mind GNOME, until she sees the dialog and then it's reboot time. Who wants to consistently re-explain how a dialog box works because it runs counter to established look and feel? (If she knew about KDE's dialog we'd be dual-GUI switching on Linux, but then I'd never get her to try GNOME once it's got the dialog).

I'm also afraid the new dialog will somehow slip from GNOME 2.6, because a patch went out of date, etc. Or something like that. :-)

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