GNOME 2.28 Beta Arrives, Release Next Month

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME 2.28 Beta Arrives, Release Next Month

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http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzQ0OQ

[FunkyRider]

is gnome 2.30 really gonna be called gnome 3.0? We don't bump up major version number for no reason, wonder what do they get in their sleeves

[vinc]

is gnome 2.30 really gonna be called gnome 3.0? We don't bump up major version number for no reason, wonder what do they get in their sleeves

Well it's no secret: Gnome Shell (that is going to go beta next week) and Zeitgeist. Those are the base for Gnome 3.0 and should bring a revolutionary user model and a new way to manage documents.

[deanjo]

Well it's no secret: Gnome Shell (that is going to go beta next week) and Zeitgeist. Those are the base for Gnome 3.0 and should bring a revolutionary user model and a new way to manage documents.

I haven't seen anything in the Gnome 3.0 roadmap that I would exactly call "revolutionary". It's more of a gradual evolution. I think Ryan Paul over at Arsetechnica summed it up well:

Unlike KDE 4.0, which produced impressive innovation and accelerated development at the cost of user trust and overall desktop stability, the GNOME 3.0 plan is less ambitious, largely builds on the GNOME desktop environment's current strategy, and avoids significant user-visible changes or disruption to basic desktop usability.

[L33F3R]

gtk3? That might be a good call.

[deanjo]

is gnome 2.30 really gonna be called gnome 3.0? We don't bump up major version number for no reason, wonder what do they get in their sleeves

Yuppers, http://blogs.gnome.org/lucasr/2008/07/10/gnome-30/

[spykes]

"avoid visible changes" ?!

...and avoids significant user-visible changes...

When I see the current Gnome Shell and how it works, I fail to see how he can say that.
http://people.igalia.com/apinheiro/f...ities-view.png
But wait, it seems this Arstechnica's article is a year old now...

[deanjo]

When I see the current Gnome Shell and how it works, I fail to see how he can say that.

http://people.igalia.com/apinheiro/files/20090812_post/activities-view.png

But wait, it seems this Arstechnica's article is a year old now...

Gnome shell doesn't offer much more then current desktop workspaces. Again nothing really revolutionary here as other OS's / de's have offered similar features for quite some time now.

[spykes]

Gnome shell doesn't offer much more then current desktop workspaces. Again nothing really revolutionary here as other OS's / de's have offered similar features for quite some time now.

The same can be said of KDE4 in this case. Anyway, the visual changes are already there, so the previous statement is no more really valid.

[deanjo]

The same can be said of KDE4 in this case. Anyway, the visual changes are already there, so the previous statement is no more really valid.

Well compared to the complete revamp from scratch of KDE's subsystems, Gnomes changes are less aggressive and carry a relatively small delta compared to KDE 4's goals. There isn't too much legacy code in KDE 4.