Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated]

The Original Yama writes "Ars Technica takes a look inside the GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform, due for release any minute now. It builds upon an earlier review of the GNOME 2.5 development series and their own examination of GNOME 2.4." darthcamaro writes "internetnews.com is running a story about the release of GNOME 2.6 today. They actually got a hold of Miguel de Icaza who had some real interesting stuff to say about it and the Linux Desktop in general. 'de Icaza told internetnews.com that a simpler interface has been the goal of GNOME since at least version 2.0.'" Update: 03/31 21:59 GMT by T : sn0wman3030 was one of many submitters to link to the GNOME 2.6 start page, including links to screenshots, documentation, and source downloads.

Re:Spatial Nautilus

[linolium]

I've never tried it, but I can't see why they would do it... I really hated it when Windows used that spatial thing. But, you know, I think the Gnome team would have done a bunch of research before they changed something as significant as this, so I don't think I have to worry about it being unefficient or anything. It's just getting used to it that will be a problem. ;)

Re:Spatial Nautilus

[pldms]

I'm the kind of guy that wants to see as much stuff as possible w/ one glance, without needing to focus my eyes too much.
What, the partially sighted kind of guy?

Have we become so lazy that flexing a lens sounds tiring?

Linux Predictions.

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a prediction:

20% of posts will be about random crap about linux moving into the future.

30% of the posts will be about why KDE and/or Windows has such a superior interface and how they can't understand why people care about Gnome and why gnome sucks in general.

10% Of posts will be people disecting and ridiculing a minor feature that they may potentially find unpleasent or a feature that is lacking.

15% Of posts will be comments on how Linux has lots of work to get into the desktop market and they have to do so and so just to be a acceptable desktop OS for people who don't give a f*ck in the first place about what sort of OS they use.

5% Of posts will be about how cool 2.6 Gnome is and how cool Linux is in general

2% Of posts will contain critisms and information that will be remotely usefull to anybody.

The rest are trolls.

Re:Spatial Nautilus

[vandemar]

Sounds reasonable if you are using a mouse. I like to navigate w/ keyboard - what's the tactic there?

xterm + bash

works for me :)

Re:Linux Predictions.

[sn0wman3030]

1% of the posts will offer statistics about the rest of the posts.

hee hee

[Anonymous Coward]

a simpler interface has been the goal of GNOME since at least version 2.0

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHH

This widget was initially hard to find..

[hungfarlow]

so we're not going to tell you where it is!