Comments on: On GNOME 2.22: the rise of a revamped platform and desktop

By: Lucas Rocha » Blog Archive » Post GUADEC notes (aka GNOME in revolution mode)

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:05:58 +0000

[...] to see that important changes are about to come in our platform. Most of them I’ve already commented before: GVFS, GTK+ 3.0, New applet API, GSettings, Mallard and others. Next year will be really [...]

By: Doppio rilascio per GNOME « Note su LINUX

Doppio rilascio per GNOME « Note su LINUX — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:45:15 +0000

[...] preparando le fondamenta prima di cominciare ad implementare le vere novità che, stando ad un post apparso su Planet GNOME, dovrebbero interessare ( tra gli altri ) gnome-session, nuove API per il VFS ( attualmente [...]

By: erik

erik — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:03:41 +0000

Not necessarily. How about for instance creating an internal plugin to act as a bridge… Copy events, video, etc from the separated process to the plugin canvas and vice versa? There must be solutions to that madness!

By: Gnome 2.22, ultime notizie « Linux e dintorni

Gnome 2.22, ultime notizie « Linux e dintorni — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:48:24 +0000

[...] Nell’attesa vi lascio leggere la notizia originale che potete raggiungere grazie a questo link. [...]

By: lucasr

lucasr — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:35:46 +0000

@Étienne, this is included in the “SoC projects” part. :-)

By: Le novità di GNOME 2.22 « pollycoke :)

Le novità di GNOME 2.22 « pollycoke :) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:51:42 +0000

[...] Lucas Rocha ha indicato nel suo blog alcune delle interessanti novità di GNOME 2.22, ossia la versione che [...]

By: reinouts

reinouts — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:05:47 +0000

@erik: Plug-ins bringing down the browser is a deep-rooted mozilla problem. We simply can’t do anything about it.

By: bersace

bersace — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:44:50 +0000

Hi,

Lucas, you said it right. You just forgot to mention scanning features ;)

Regards,
Étienne

By: erik

erik — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:20:40 +0000

I beg on my knees! Big sad panda eyes 8|

1. ESD & sound generally. I plug in usb headset on my Gnome desktop computer and the sound continues going to the loudspeakers instead of the headset. Wtf? Then I go to control center / sound to select usb headset on everything possible.. And still some applications are pushing sound to the loudspeakers. ARgh. It’s a mess.

2. Integrate desktop search & clean the main menus. I know of the SOC, that’ll help.. But it should include also making the main gnome menu better / different. There’s a lot of work to be done there and it’s not easy.

3. TELEPATHY based IM/Voip client to the standard installations! At least without all the connection managers if there are licensing/patent issues. It’s the only and best way to get connected with all the required people groups (msn users in “real life”, irc for friends, jabber for nerds, etc) and superb. The present state of this area is appalling. Integrate, deep.. Deep..!

4. Separate the browser plugins (totem-plugin, flash, etc) from the Epiphany so that WHEN they crash they don’t crash the browser as well! (Well, they don’t crash often but they get jammed easily if they have network connectivity prolems..)

5. Fonts, re-design the included default fonts and the settings as there has been improvements on the area.

6. Clean off some obsolete features (palm integration included by default, ancient icon sets, etc) to extra package.. Some people might want those but for 99% of the people they are just taking space for nothing.

7. New Novel’ish control center please. Something like that!

8. Filesystem ACL support on Nautilus by default. 60s called, they want their old posix file system security model back mmkay.

9. Integrate music & video playing. It’s hard but doable, and it’s silly to have distict applications for both tasks. Context sensitive gui is quite doable. Also, no library functions!??! :[ Media players are some 5+ years behind the best competitors :o

By: pacho

pacho — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:52:25 +0000

What about go from esd to pulseaudio? ;-)

Thanks