What You Should Expect from GNOME 2.26

This is a cool release... Use it...

Is it still full of Mono?

If so, is there a target release for Mono exclusion?

A wish, they should add a button to hide inactive icons in system tray.
And Mono, mono is something which is committed with Gnome, due to this mono thing I am using Gnome because I want to get whole benefit of it. So I am on Gnome and using Gtk# and other Gnome integrations with Mono. Mono is a coooooool thing. Love in it.

Well, as the years pass it becomes more likely that a suit by MS would be thrown out quickly. But I'm not yet about to risk mono. Maybe in a couple more years...

I'll grant that their legal position is already bad, and that decent lawyers should be able to win a case against them. I'm not convince yet that it's weak enough that the user wouldn't end up paying the costs of defending himself, even if he DID win the case. For that I think the court has to find that the suer acted in bad faith, and courts generally presume good faith without examining any actions outside of the particular court room in which the judge resides. (Just this week SCOxq.pk was again given credit for acting in good faith, despite numerous shenanigans in other court rooms...the bankruptcy judge hadn't experienced their actions personally, so he gave them credit for good faith.)

If the courts were fair to the party with lesser financial backing, then I might be willing to trust mono. As it is... I won't trust it without being able to *easily* demonstrate bad faith on the part of anyone who might challenge my use of it, in a manner convincing to the court.

Yea I agree with him.Microsoft might play dirty to keep it's dominant fame.After all haven't other major corporations used bribalry to take down potencially worthy adversaries? So might MS. Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems have also surpassed Windows in a variety of ways. For one thing,Windows Vista.the well celebrated release of windows is a performance hog.It consumes a great deal of RAM and CPU
and is thus an inefficient operating system.Ubuntu Hardy on the otherhand operated smoothly on my Compaq Presario S500NX,a simple office standard-almost the equivalent of an IBM.So Ubuntu ran just fine on maximum effects level.The "Jiggly" window scheme was very amusing,and I also expected the CPU level to increase dramatically.I was surprised to find that it took less than a quarter of the power that Windows Vista took! So thus I'm saying that Linux surpasses Windows in performance and various other areas.It is efficient and reliable.Acknowledgments of this may cause the workers at Microsoft to become more competitive amongst other operating system distributors. So if they fail to survive competition,they just might play dirty.

Gnome 2.24 is great. 2.26 will be a minor update.

I don't think Novell is stupid enough to build something to be prosecuted. Mono is a great idea but lacks a few things to be really useful.

- A page for programmers like this one:

http://builder.classpath.org/japi/jdk15-classpath.html

- GTK, Qt, MacOS themes for Windows.Forms. They are already working on a theme engine.

- Windows.Forms support in monodevelop.

I still can't understand how so many sheep can follow the wolf. Your app is just running under another app instead of directly under the OS. If you look at something like FreePascal/Lazarus, your application will be compiled to native binary for the selected target (Linux, MacOsx, windo$). Why use a resource hungry third layer ?

Rudied, because:

- In a networked world, people and Enterprises need "Interoperability". Think n-Tier architectures, web services, easy web programming or inter-applications communication.
- Write once, run anywhere is not just a concept.
- Language independence is good for choice: C#, VB.Net, ... and more from third party. All of them can work together without needing to reinvent the wheel.
- Simplified deployment build in mind.
- Security build in mind.
- Portability (32bit, 64bit, Intel, AMD, PPC, Sparc, ARM, MIPS...).
- Powerful standard class libraries with organized hierarchy easy to understand and learn.

C/GTK+, C++/Qt and other less used combinations are cool but lack a lot of things. If you read again my list, C++/Qt is the only good enough choice for most items. Gnome people don't want to change the C/GTK+ combination, so other want to add "mono".
There is a war for "enterprise networked service" between Sun/Java and MS/.Net. Linux can run Java applications and, thank to Novel, can (~) run .Net applications too.

I love gnome, it just works, but it does look like Windows 3.11. I would love to see a shift to at least have the option of some nice window dressings

GNOME still has the look of a 2D visual basic application from the 1990's with the little icons next to the OK / CANCEL. C'mon devs, get up with the times and give us compiz 3D by default! Why can't gnome have a slick look rather than a horrid 2D GUI of the 20th century.

It's fantastic! I'm waiting for the new Ubuntu 9.04/Gnome 2.26
Brasero seems a great app!