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GNOME 2.10 splash screen contest

Submitted by Uraeus on Fri, 2005-02-25 09:23. Gnome 2.x

GNOME 2.10 is coming closer and is ready to rock you to the socks. But to make sure everyone gets rocked properly we need a superterrific splashscreen.
Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a major release of the GNOME! Contest rules and details are at gimp.org. Keep on rocking, and btw, you can use other apps to make the splash too, including for instance Inkscape.

great but there are other things that should be fixed first

Submitted by cg0def on Fri, 2005-02-25 20:56.

Nice to see Gnome 2.10 finally comming to a release stage however the Gnome dev team seems to have forgotten a huge part of every gui desktop environment. Since gnome 2.6 things regarding the applications menu and general MIME configuration things have been getting worst and worst and now it is at the stage where it is almost impossible to do configuration tasks for the menu and MIME file assotiations. And to think that gnome actually has a usability project. This must be the most ironic thing I have seen in a while. It's great to see gnome improving in certain directions and the common MIME database is something that was needed for a very long time but you can't just take features away from previous releases and still release a newer version. After all this is exactly why I don't use Windows. Oh yeah and Gnome 2.8.3 is actually a lot more user friendly than the curent beta releases of 2.10. Since the feature additions have alredy been frozen 2.10 shapes up to be very much restrictive and hard to administer. But I do hope that I am wrong because I really like gtk+ and gnome.

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