Re: Gnome 1.0.0?

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

I think that it is not ready for 1.0 for basically those same reasons. 
I think that Control-Center has obviously had some major changes since
the last RPM/Tarball release and those need to be tested more
thoroughly.  I also think that Control-Center is critical to making
Gnome 1.0 a successful launch.  I also think a few more things need to
be done to the file manager before it should be released with Gnome
1.0.  And, Balsa desperately needs better error handling, more user
documentation, and better user feedback.  :)

I will say that out of all of that, though, Balsa is probably of the
least immediate concern.  The biggest thing for me would be making sure
that Control-Center is ready, and maybe even waiting for a GTK 1.2
release.

Mike Palczewski wrote:
> 
> On 26 Feb 1999, Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Miller <sar@403forbidden.net> writes:
> >
> > | Just because its named 1.0.0 in cvs doesnt mean its anywhere near 1.0
> > | final release.  I'm not sure how it will go, but it could just mean the
> > | 1.0.0 stage of the freeze, then go into code freeze, and feature freeze
> > | other modules in cvs.  Then once all is caught up make the final.  But I
> > | could be 101% wrong.
> >
> > I think that gnome is too unstable/immature to be released as 1.0.0
> > any time soon. The current version is 0.99.8 as I can see.
> 
> I disagree, but only partially.  I see for the most part of gnome ready as
> 1.0.0.  However there are somethings that should be fixed before the
> release.  Most applications I use are very stable.  gnome-libs definetly
> seems to work.  gmc is a problem.  It has many many bugs ( I am only
> using .18 dl 21 right now) It seems to crash onve in a while.  It hangs
> when starting up ( only sometimes )  It can't parse the .desktop files.
> 
> IMHO balsa also seems very unstable (CVS two days ago). It can't close my
> inbox without crashing.
> 
> I have no problems with most of the applications.  They are all
> very stable.  I'm sure many disagree, but I feel like get the bugs out,
> box it, ship it, and what better way to get more bug reports than calling
> it pre 1.0.0 plus I don't know if there's any coincidence but gtk 1.2.0
> came out recently ( coincidence ? )
> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> Mike
> 
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