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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.8!

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2004-09-15 07:49. Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project is celebrating the release of GNOME 2.8, the latest
version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. GNOME 2.8
demonstrates the achievements in usability gained through deep collaboration
and operating system integration. We have taken our 'Just Works' philosophy
right down to the metal!

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort
by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies,
artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great
release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor!

You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.8 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.8 start page. You can also check out our gallery of
cool screenshots from dedicated GNOME users and testers!

All about GNOME 2.8: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working
on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2005.

GnomeDruid still broken!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-09-16 09:07.

lbiglade instatiation of GnomeDruid has been broken since 2.2 and still is!

It doesn't matter that bugs have been filed in bugzilla. It' doesn't matter that there are patches in bugzilla. It doesn't matter that GnomeDruid is completely unusable without fixes.

The GNOME developers are always saying that it's too late before the stable release or that the fix might break something or that GnomeDruid will be replaced by some GtkAction widget. It's been two years and GNOME 2.2 since the initial bugs were filed. It's been almost one year since GtkAction development stagnated. The desire to fix things that aren't eye candy and flashy is obviously a low priority - in spite of what others do to provide patches and do all the hard work. The Gnome team has rejected the community assistance.

Comments like "deep collaboration," "Just Works," and "effort by GNOME contributors around the world" make me wonder how in touch with reality the GNOME team is.

Yeah, I'm steamed about one little problem (okay, I have a laundry list of complaints but I didn't mention the others) when many other things are way cool, but come on, twor years when people hand you patches and all you have to do is apply them? Oh, I forgot, you don't want to break API compatibility even though libglade GnomeDruid is completely unusable the way it is . . ..

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