Re: [gnome-summary] This weeks summary

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Rock!  So did I btw.  I have not committed my version as of yet.  I'll merge yours in today and then see what comes up.   You forgot your article as well.

Looks like you and I both have an article of GNOME 2.6 released.  Although mine is way more sentimental than yours. :-) I'll see if I can merge the two together somehow.

sri

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:00:32PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> I have tried to come up with something. See attachment. It is not yet
> xmlized - I'll do it by tomorrow :-)
> In case anyone has some other news, and if s/he does not have cvs, feel
> free to append the news (along with url) to the end of the file, I'll
> xmlize it and commit it.
> 
> -thanks-
> Sayamindu
> 

> GNOME 2.6 released. 
> 
> GNOME 2.6 was released this week amidst wild cheering. GNOME 2.6 features improved usability, more user-friendliness, and yess!! A brand new file selector that rocks! In short - this is best release of GNOME ever. This version of GNOME also sees the highest languages support - do the translators never sleep ?
> http://www.gnome.org/start/stable/
> 
> No surprises in GNOME for Grandma
> 
> Matthew Newton of PC World looks at GNOME 2.6 for grandma, and his comments ? ?
> "Grandma is never going to learn about "opening a file manager" to "navigate her way" to her documents. They are all going to live in plain view in folders on her desktop. And when she opens them, there won't be any surprises."
> Spatial Nautilus rules!
> http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,115411,00.asp
> 
> Usabilty of Free/Open Source Software - GNOME leads the way
> 
> Of recent Eric Raymond started a debate on why Free/Open Source software is still not ready for Aunt Tillie. There have been a number of responses to this article, and in one of them, Brad Griffith shows us how GNOME scores over proprietary software (Yes!! OS X included) in terms of usabilty.
> http://www.thecardinal1978.com/GNOME/
> 
> 
> GNOME goodies from Ars Technica
> 
> The people from Ars Technica have written a rocking review of GNOME 2.6 in an article titled "Inside the GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform". Quote from the article: "GNOME as a desktop environment has come of age, and current directions in its development promise to make it one of the most usable and most functional GUIs made." Yay!!
> http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/004/software/gnome-2.6/gnome-2.6-1.html
> The Ars-Linux staff have more goodies for us - a list of gconf hacks for all those tweakers out there. 
> http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/linux/linux.ars-20040331-2.html
> 
> Evolution Updates
> 
> There has been some fairly radical changes in the Evolution UI - which should simplify calendar/contact/task management to a large extent.
> http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000195.html
> http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000194.html
> 
> Gossip Updates
> 
> Gossip is one of the cleanest and easiest to use IM clients in the GNOME world. However, support for only the Jabber protocol has been a major problem for this beautiful piece of work.... till now, that is. The Gossip hackers, especially Mikael Hallendal has been actively working on adding support for the other popular protocols to Gossip. Some initial UI proposals are available in the Gossip hacker log.
> http://gossip.imendio.org/hackerlog/archives/000036.html
> 
> File selector Updates
> 
> People keeping track of GTK+ development via CVS will notice that the new file selector has now a context sensitive menu (right click above the file list) which lets you select hidden files and folders. The selector now also displays a busy cursor while loading file/folder lists. This should be helpful while selecting files from large directories. There is also a patch in bugzilla which adds support for the ".hidden" file to the file selector. However, at this moment, this only works for the vanilla gtk backend of the filechooser.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136077
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137520
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137520
> 
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