Hoary / Gnome 2.10 : worth it ?

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le lundi 14 février 2005 à 10:42 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez a écrit :

>not fixed, no way to add new icons, and no GUI to customize the menu
>(unless I missed it).

Hi,

You can read the thread on ubuntu-devel about the menu edition:
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-January/003547.html



>Also, I noticed that Nautilus is now going BACKwards ! Now, you can't
>hide/show files with a K/B shortcut (Control + H) anymore, you have to
>toggle it with the mouse in a menu, like in Gnome 2.4 (almost) !!

That's a shortcut detail trivial to fix ... You can set a shortcut for
the moment (gnome-ui-properties to allow shortcut changes, go and the
menu item and press ctrl-H).


>Also, the new volume mixer is ugly and higly impractical, with PCM and
>Line-in channels on different tabs, so I have to switch all the time
>between the two tabs, depending if I want to control the TV card volume,
>or Rhythmbox/Totem/etc volume !

What's "ugly" in the mixer ? It's much simpler than the warty one which
is an improvement for many people.
Why not settings the line-in and PCM on a correct level and change the
master one then ?


>So unless Ubuntu fixes all that themselves once Gnome is released, then
>Wart/Gnome 2.8 is much better ! :-/

You are free to keep using warty if you think so.


>I can see that 2.10 has nice little touches about networking tools/GUIs,
>but it hardly compensates for the other problems...

You can look on this page: http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/



Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher