| From: | Matthew Garrett |
| Date: | 5 Aug 2000 at 19:31:57 |
| Subject: | Re: Linux? Tell me more. |
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:03:39PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
> Like hell will it. They've been saying "two weeks" for ages. Besides,
> I can't get Debian to dial up U-Net properly, which sucks. If anyone
> knows how to get the ppp thingy to work properly with a U-Net
> account, PLEASE tell me. I just need to have apt download all the
> stuff I need and then I'll be happy :)
The third test cycle has begun, and unless anything really horrible
happens then it'll be released at the end of it. I've no idea what's up
with your PPP stuff - what sort of messages were you getting in the logs?
> Umm.. why does a desktop need sound support? Shouldn't they fix all
> the nasty crashy bugs and all thet first, before adding such options
> as silly clicky sounds.
Silly clicky sounds are trivial to add, whereas fixing bugs isn't always
:) Still, I haven't run into any nasty crashy bugs since I upgraded to
Gnome 1.2. It seems pretty solid now.
> That said, GNOME rocks. Nearest thing we have to the Amiga, with
> it's cool kinda screen title bar doobry ;)
What's really nice is that that's implemented as a special case of the
panel rather than something else entirely. They finally seem to be getting
the message about using common objects between aps, there's a really nice
Gnome web browser that uses the Mozilla engine but doesn't bother with all
the extra stuff (like the XML user interface), the new file manager has a
bunch of neat features and is being designed by people who actually have
experience of proper UI design and I really love the level of artwork on
the icons. Gnome 2 ought to be very nice.
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