GNOME 2.20 shows significant improvement
GNOME 2.20 was released yesterday. Even though I use GNOME regularly, I normally don't get excited over new releases, because most seem to offer little more substance than previous versions, with most of the work being done under the hood. This time, though, GNOME has a solid list of new features and upgrades. It's worth taking a look at even if you aren't a fan of this desktop environment.
I tested GNOME's new features by installing a nightly build of the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 release, which will include GNOME 2.20 as its default user interface, on my laptop. In an attempt to maintain the feel of a default GNOME install as much as possible, I reverted the theme used by Ubuntu back to the new default of GNOME 2.20. The wallpaper used in the release notes was nowhere to be found in my Ubuntu install, which means it must not have been included in the art package.
Since most distributions these days customize the look and feel of the desktop, you might not see the new look of GNOME even if it's your distribution's desktop environment. Clearlooks theme as previous versions, but it has been touched up to the point where you would almost think it's a different theme altogether.
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openSUSE has been driving innovation on the Linux desktop, and in today’s serial we’ll be discovering just what has been happening on the GNOME front. Among other things, openSUSE 10.3 is set to contain, and be among the very first to have, the new GNOME 2.20. We’ll see what new things you can expect from this version, what additional polish openSUSE brings to the desktop, and finally we’ll be talking to JP Rosevear (jpr), an openSUSE and GNOME developer, to find out a little more.
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XDS is a drag-and-drop framework. It is (should) be used in any application that can let the user drag an object or file out of one window and into another.
At the very last moment (as in three days before the release of GNOME 2.20), XDS support was thrown in by demand.
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