Monday, March 14 2005 @ 07:35 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
Straight from the horses mouth, we bring you news of what to expect in GNOME 2.10.
Heard about the new GNOME 2.10 release but you want to know what is new in it? Sayamindu Dasgupta takes you through a tour of GNOME 2.10 with a fine-toothed comb.
Introduction
“Releases came out with the regularity that can only result from a high-fiber diet”, wrote Seth Nickell, while describing the new development policy and philosophy that has been implemented in the GNOME world during the course of the 2.x series. And indeed, every year, on March and September, we see a major release of GNOME taking place. During the six month period, there is a very definite release schedule, which is described in detail in the Dotplan.
On the 9th of March, 2005, the GNOME Foundation will be releasing GNOME 2.10, the 6th major stable release in the 2.x series. GNOME 2.10 will be incorporating feature enhancements and bug fixes that have been taking place for the last six months In this article, I will be trying to give a brief idea about the major changes that have taken place since GNOME 2.8. To begin with, we will look at one of the very basic components of GNOME, namely GTK+.
