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First release of Gimmie available

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2006-06-28 10:37. Gnome 2.x

Alex Graveley has announced the first release of Gimmee.
The network access is too poor and the distractions too much fun here at GUADEC to write a proper release note just yet, but I wanted to let everyone know that the first Gimmie tarball is up.

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I've only been using it for

Submitted by Tyr_7BE on Fri, 2006-06-30 08:07.

I've only been using it for an evening, but I really like it. It feels "Apple-y", but better organized than my Mac's dock.

One thing I noticed is that Documents only appear in Gimmie when you open them via Gimmie (ie, if you double-click in nautilus it won't show up), and the People window worked the first time but stopped after that, but this app is also a 0.1 release so those kinds of things are to be expected. In the future, I'd also like to see the ability to add custom places to the Computer window.

Looking forward to future versions. Great idea!

New Gnome

Submitted by lobais on Thu, 2006-06-29 16:00.

I think the largest problem with many of these "New Gnome" tools and ideas, are that they work excellent for people, but only if they work in a special way.

I guess the perfect desktop should be able to work perfectly with all different ways of personal workstyles.

And then maybe I'm wrong, and the perfect desktop should consist of different tools, just like this one, that people can choose between.

"And then maybe I'm wrong,

Submitted by Daniel Borgmann on Thu, 2006-06-29 18:22.

"And then maybe I'm wrong, and the perfect desktop should consist of different tools, just like this one, that people can choose between."

Yes, I think that's more like it. :) If you try to create software that suits itself to every workstyle, then you end up with a software that isn't ideal for _any_ workstyle. We had that before and I say no thanks to that. It is not that hard to adjust to a different workstyle anyway and it often pays off. In fact, I often learn to work more efficiently from tools that politely nudge me into a certain direction. This never happens with tools that are designed to shape themselves anyway I want them.

Right, but for people

Submitted by lobais on Fri, 2006-06-30 03:32.

Right, but for people working on different systems, it isn't that easy just to convert to another style, as they'd like to have it the same way always.

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I don't think so...

Submitted by Drom on Wed, 2006-06-28 18:50.

well... this panel is too big for me, if you remove these sections names on the bottom and remove items you don't need, it's just regular panel with less functions and even bigger than my 23px standard panel with all I need.

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that's the problem

Submitted by Drom on Fri, 2006-06-30 09:17.

Yeah, not just a panel, it tryes to be "all in one" (i think) and I don't like this way. I would prefer to make gnome apps work better together than create one unified desktop center.

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I think the energy should be

Submitted by Drom on Fri, 2006-06-30 14:37.

I think the energy should be focused in different way, for example to make evolution and gaim work better with contact sharing between or make nautilus plugin interface easy to write new ones.
Ok, it's everyone's choice and I'll (of course) wait for future versions to see improvements, but now I don't think it will be useful for me.