Gnome 2.10 on my new AMD 64 system

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After using WinXP and OS X at work as my only computers for the past 8 months. I was incredibly happy to get back to using Linux and actually being able to configure my desktop (being able to move the dock/taskbar and changing between two looks is not configuration).

When my computer originally went down I was running GNOME 2.6. 2.10 has been slick. Nice fixes and additions.

So here's my desktop:
No more taskbar type thing, I use only the Window Selector icon that is next to the Workspace Switcher.
Background is a cool wallpaper for my favorite band.
The RSS feeds are running on GDesklets.
I wish they'd make spacers a default option for the panels. I improvise by adding whitespace, but dividers would be visually easier to manage.
My theme's are Smooth-Tangerine-Dream controls, AluminumAlloy-Volcanic window borders and Gartoon icons



Some side notes. The file dialog box rocks. Way better than any other OS IMO. Also the spatial navigation works pretty well especially with visual feedback to which child folders are already open. Oh and take notice OS X Finder developers -- look the icon spacings aren't annoyingly outrageous.

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Holy Crap! part deux

I was looking for a music file that I wasn't sure I had and I didn't know its name. So I'm browsing my music files and left my pointer over a file. Wa-la it started playing. Killer.

[Wombat]

Deus Ex Machina? The same band that became 5f 55?

[TnT]

Machinae Supremacy is the name of the band. They are swedish and kick serious ass. They have most of their songs available for download (ogg or mp3) except for the album where they only have two songs for download.

[leech]

Holy Crap! part deux

I was looking for a music file that I wasn't sure I had and I didn't know its name. So I'm browsing my music files and left my pointer over a file. Wa-la it started playing. Killer.

Yeah, that feature has been in there for a while. The really weird thing (at least on Debian) is that it uses mpg123 (or maybe mpg321, something like that) and will run in the background... so if you double-click on multiple mp3's, it'll play all of them at once!

At least that's how it was in 2.8. 2.10 fixed the mime issues with that, I think.

Leech

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After a couple weeks of using my wonderful Linux / GNOME system at home I'm declaring all other operating systems UNUSABLE. I work on Mac OS 10.3/4 all day with occasional stuff on Windows XP / Server 2003. I cannot stand to use either system. They suck. The UIs don't make sense... whereas I can configure my home system and it works for me smoothly.

All this bull about OS X on x86 taking away from Linux is stupid. OS X is crap. Finder is POS and it has GUI features that poop all over the system. I have to find open source software to do tasks I need to do anyways, so why not run them on a system where they look good... Oh my god, while I was typing this, something happened that's making the text go real slow... I think the computer (Apple G4) is reading this...

[Nowhere]

WOnder how the world would look like if Gnustep was here on time to fight with KDE...

[DGhost]

After a couple weeks of using my wonderful Linux / GNOME system at home I'm declaring all other operating systems UNUSABLE. I work on Mac OS 10.3/4 all day with occasional stuff on Windows XP / Server 2003. I cannot stand to use either system. They suck. The UIs don't make sense... whereas I can configure my home system and it works for me smoothly.

All this bull about OS X on x86 taking away from Linux is stupid. OS X is crap. Finder is POS and it has GUI features that poop all over the system. I have to find open source software to do tasks I need to do anyways, so why not run them on a system where they look good... Oh my god, while I was typing this, something happened that's making the text go real slow... I think the computer (Apple G4) is reading this...

riiiiggghhhtt.

just got back to fiddling with my Debian/Pure64 box. kinda kinky, definately enjoyable. just need to make the sound card work though..

[UtwigMU]

KDE! KDE! KDE!

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KDE! KDE! KDE!

I'm not proposing GNOME is better than KDE. I haven't used KDE enough to say, but I'm extremely happy with GNOME so I don't want to use time to explore.

When I'm forced to use Winblows and POS X (<- I just thought of that ) it sucks monkey balls.

[Wombat]

I switched from Gnome to KDE about a year ago when Gnome just kinda when off developing stupid stuff instead of fixing real things. I still use Evolution though. Except Evolution is really starting to suck, too. I left it on for a week or two and it got up to 700MB (why am I hitting my swap...what the!). Usually it gets unstable long before that and I have to go in and kill all of its threads.

[leech]

I really enjoy using Gnome as well. It just looks nicer and is cleaner to use to me than KDE. That and I can't stand it how KDE has their sounds set up... I don't want to hear a sound everytime I close my windows or open new ones, or dialogs pop up. Gnome's default sounds are quite unobtrusive, which I like. I know I can change the KDE ones, but there are still other things that bug me about KDE.

@Wombat. Evolution is a real stinker in the stability department. If I could program I'd work solely on getting that exchange plugin working right! Unfortunately I use Exchange at work, and I've been trying to get Evolution to play nicely with it. It crashes every other time that I load it up, and I can get the calendar sharing to work.... ONCE. then if I have to reboot Evolution, then the Calendar will break. It's a pain. Though it'd be really cool once they get the stability worked out, since it will actually show your meetings, etc in the clock applet of gnome!

Leech