Hoary / Gnome 2.10 : worth it ?

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Vincent Trouilliez Wrote: 
> I am gettign more and more worried about Gnome 2.10
> Yesterday I upgraded Array 4 (130MB of updates !), which upgraded
> Gnome
> from 2.9.90 to 2.9.91, but I noticed that the Applications menu is
> still
> not fixed, no way to add new icons, and no GUI to customize the menu
> (unless I missed it).
> I just checked Gnome's release plan : http://www.gnome.org/start/2.9/
> which clealy says that 2.9.91 is now PAST UI/feature freeze ! That
> means
> that the menu system will, logically, not be modified anymore !
> 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) !!
> 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 !
> 
> So unless Ubuntu fixes all that themselves once Gnome is released,
> then
> Wart/Gnome 2.8 is much better ! :-/
> I can see that 2.10 has nice little touches about networking
> tools/GUIs,
> but it hardly compensates for the other problems...
> 
These are features. The same fetatures that made me switch to hoary
months ago.


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