Hoary / Gnome 2.10 : worth it ?

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le lundi 14 février 2005 à 11:35 -0500, troutrou a écrit :
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>Thanks. What the hell is "gnome-ui-properties", is it a key in gconf
>(didn't find one), or a pacakage in Synpatic I must add (didn't find
>one either ) ?

That's "Menus & Toolbars" in the preferences menu.


>of the window being constant, when I look at the first tab, the two
>control hardly fill the space, it looks "empty", a bit strange.

Just to point the difference:

warty: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=662
hoary: http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/images/gvm-full.png



>happen to change the PCM setting quite a lot (wide variations in
>amplitude I mean) 

You can set the applet to change the PCM volume if you want.



>If it were so simple :-/  I would happily stay with Warty, if all the
>libraries and applications were updated/backported.

Why updating if you think that new applications are not an improvement ?


>It has a few nice little improvements, but the menu issue is a real
>turn off.

I don't think so. The new menu is using the freedesktop specifications
which is a great improvement. The new layout is better too. You can add
a debian or whatever xdg menu in a very easy way. An another advantage
of using a standard is that you can whatever freedesktop menu editor to
edit the menu (ie: the xfce one).



>But I feel we will have to wait for the next version (is that 2.12 or
>3.0 ?) to really have a reason to update. Obviously for people using
>2.4 or 2.6, 2.10 is interesting. But when using 2.8, I am not sure...

A lot of people are happy with all the improvements in GNOME 2.10, feel
free to disagree, I'll not discuss this for hours.


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher