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GNOME 2.14.0 Release Candidate

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2006-03-01 18:24. Gnome 2.x

Woohooo! This is our last unstable release before the big .0 release.
Lots of new features and bug fixes have been added during this cycle,
probably more than what you can remember if you've been running all the
unstable releases so far. But if you can remember, then you're ready to
help with the release notes :-)

See this mail for instructions on how to
contribute to the 2.14.0 release notes:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-February/msg00051.html

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.13.91 and 2.13.92
are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release:

platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.13/2.13.92/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.13/2.13.92/NEWS
admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.13/2.13.92/NEWS
bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.13/2.13.92/NEWS

Basic ambrosial stats:

admin 2.13.92 statistics:
tar.gz: 784K total
tar.bz2: 612K total

bindings 2.13.92 statistics:
tar.gz: 22M total
tar.bz2: 16M total

desktop 2.13.92 statistics:
tar.gz: 160M total
tar.bz2: 116M total

platform 2.13.92 statistics:
tar.gz: 50M total
tar.bz2: 37M total

The GNOME 2.13.92 release is available here:

platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/platform/2.13/2.13.92/
desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/desktop/2.13/2.13.92/
admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/admin/2.13/2.13.92/
bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.13/2.13.92/

To compile it, you can use GARNOME (will be released soon), or the
jhbuild modulesets available at:

http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.13.92/

TESTING! TESTING! TESTING!
--------------------------

This release is a feature, user interface, and string frozen snapshot
primarily intended for wide public scrutiny before the final GNOME
2.14 release in March. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate
development status. Please check the 2.13 page for more info:

http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

Happy testing!

I hate gnome-screensaver

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2006-03-08 09:27.

It just plain sucks. First, I can't choose myself what screensavers I want to use. With XScreensaver I got a clean list of all the possible screensavers and could select the ones which I wanted it to randomly rotate, but gnome-screensaver stubbornly thinks I want to use every and all of them, no matter how much I hate some of those. Secondly, it seems to break everything. MPlayer not being able to stop the screensaver isn't a bug in MPlayer since it could do that before. Third, I can't even set any settings for the screensavers themselves. The are some whose default settings I don't like, but gnome-screensaver doesn't want to me disagree with the default settings, thus forcing me to just accept them. Fourth, with XScreensaver I could choose myself where I want it to fetch any random pictutes from, which program or file to use for text input and whether or not I want it to be able to capture live video or my desktop picture, but again, gnome-screensaver fails to deliver any of those settings.

I'm just wondering...how is gnome-screensaver supposed to be better then? Atleast it's not user-friendly. I actually thought Gnome was all about user-friendliness....
-WereCatf

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