Re: fiesty

On 1/28/07, Unit3 <unit3@demoni.ca> wrote:

> > the spiffy new Gnome Control Center:
> > http://lunapark6.com/?p=2728
> > As part of the pending Gnome 2.18
>
> Interesting. It (unfortunately) looks very similar to Windows new "easy"
> control panel system, but I think there are legitimate UI reasons for
> going that direction. Hopefully not too many people will be turned off
> of it just because it looks somewhat like Windows.

There's actually been a GCC standalone for a while now, but it was
IMHO broken because it didn't offer the Administration settings as I
recall. The new one is indeed similar to what you'd find in Vista:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa905329.wvdcpui03(en-us,MSDN.10).jpg

...just not so insanely cluttered with categories (I have just four ;)

> > Marble is a cute little KDE globe program: "It shows the earth as a
> > sphere but doesn't make use of any hardware acceleration (NO OpenGL)."
>
> I'm unsure why that's a feature, exactly. ;) I mean, if it has an
> efficient software rendering mode in the case that you don't have 3D
> acceleration, that's a feature, but to just say "nope, even if you have
> 3d acceleration we don't use it!" seems, well, odd. ;)

Its a 'selling' point because not all of us have good graphics cards
that can do wobbly windows :( IOW, it has a small graphics footprint
(and would work well on not-brand-new computers)

> Do you
> use Network Manager at all? I'm curious to see if there's been any
> changes there, as I use it quite a bit, but there's a few little things
> I'd like to see improved.

Which network thing are you specifically talking about?
Network Monitor? (Gnome Panel Applet)
network-admin? (Network Settings)
Network Tools?

Screenshot of the old version?

Oh! I just remembered something else that changed; as part of the new
Gnome version there's a new time settings window.

CK
Received on Sun Jan 28 14:28:47 2007