Gnome 2.12 has been released! I played around with it last night on my laptop which is running Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” and took a few screenshots.
evince, pdf thumbnailing, and gdesklets
More screenshots:
- adding software
- adding an item to the panel
- beagle search
- dragging text
- nautilus browse mode
- nautilus spatial tree
- smeg
Tags: GNOME
September 8th, 2005 at 11:44 am
Awesome. I really can’t wait to test 2.12. I was wondering if there were any Debian repositories around with GNOME 2.12
September 8th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
I’m really not sure about debian proper, although you might be able to use the ubuntu repositories/packages with Debian.
September 8th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
Smeg? What were they thinking? Were they thinking?
It really is an entirely inappropriate name, but the term is obscure enough they might get away with it for a while.
September 8th, 2005 at 1:54 pm
I personally found the name funny, but I agree that it wouldn’t be an appropriate name for the official gnome menu editor and I don’t think it is. It’s just one possible menu editor implementation and happens to be what Ubuntu is using right now.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:41 am
how come the menu is called applications, but you add/remove programs.
oh well, its better then having to use a ’start’ button to turn off a computer.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:51 am
one other thing. on the nautilus browser mode, would it be possible for you to drag that iso file to the home button (or any other) in the new location buttons thing, and it to be moved to your home folder?
can you drag and hover it over the home button, and then your home folder is displayed where the gnome live cd folder was displayed, so as to drop it in to a subdirectory of you home folder?
if so then this seem to be as functional as a column browser (nextstep/macosx), but slightly more space efficent.
if not, then its something to hope gets implemented in the future.
ssam
September 9th, 2005 at 9:21 am
ssam: Sounds like you’re an OS X user. The menu at the top of the screen is not a menu for an application as it is on the Mac. It’s just a panel with small programs called applets, launchers for applications, and menus for starting new applications, accessing preferences, etc.
You can drag the .ISO file to the home folder on the desktop to move it to that folder. The second feature you mention is, I believe, called “spring loaded folders.” There was talk of implementing it in Gnome but the problem of some Apple patents got in the way. So no, Gnome does not have spring loaded folders.
Nautilus (the Gnome file manager) has some neat improvements in this release (like the spatial tree mode) and I hope to see some new ideas in the future. Spring loaded folders would be sweet.