Hoary / Gnome 2.10 : worth it ?

[piedamaro]

Vincent Trouilliez Wrote: 
> > Menu editing never worked (yeah, I know, now you will say it worked,
> > but it had serious problems), 
> 
> Yes, it's not perfect, I agree. But at least, it was there, with 2.10,
> there is nothing left at all (for human beings ie)  !!! :-O
> 
> > About the mixer: I have a sblive and previous gnome mixers were
> > *unuseable*, with their 50+ sliders, so I'd say this is a big
> > improvement over the previous one.
> 
> Ah yes, I understand. That's what Sebastien showed in his pics.
> As I said, I have the opposite problem (lucky me ? ;o).
> This why I prefer the 2.4 mixer, you can select what channels you
> want.
> this was removed for 2.6 and 2.8, and now it's back again with 2.10...
> It's like the K/B shortcut for hiding/showing hidden files, was absent
> in older Gnome version, was luckily introduced in 2.8, and it's gone
> in
> 2.10
> 
> This "take it/give it back" thing is annoying. That said, it means
> that
> should a feature annoy people in the future, there is hope that it
> will
> eventuallt get removed at some point. So it's not all bad I
> suppose... ;o)
Vince, finally I understand your point: yes I agree it's not nice to
have for ex. menu-editing not working from gui before gnome-2.10
release, but if not, we had the plain old stuff which only half worked.

One of the advantage of using free software is a quick release cycle,
one thing that free software needs is more integration with standards
like LSB and freedesktop, and this is a move in that direction :)


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