Just when you thought you could rest....

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:11:25 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 00:05, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:15:59 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke 
>> <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Here comes GNOME 2.5.x.  We should see a 2.4.1 before 2.5.0, but those
>> > wanting to test should note that the GNOME people have published the 
>> 2.6
>> > release schedule at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/.  GNOME 2.5 will 
>> be
>> > maintained in my CVS repo just as 2.3 was.  I plan on updating
>> > marcusmerge a bit to be more user-friendly, and knowledgeable about
>> > updates.  If anyone has any ideas on making it better, let me know.
>>
>> Sweet, I think the 2.5.x series will be the most fun to test. Isn't it
>> will break few API like GTK 2.4 for file selector, new Nautilus 
>> (rewrite?)
>> and etc?
>
> Technically, it should remain API compatible with GNOME 2.4.  That is,
> GNOME 2.4 apps should run in GNOME 2.6 with just a recompile.  In fact,
> it really should be ABI compatible, but shared lib version numbers will
> change.

Thanks, that's good.. I hope, I will like the new Spatial Nautilus.. Open 
it in the new window at the every directory is something what I dislike, 
but I almost never use Nautilus to browse thought.. The new Spatial 
Nautilus looks like this: http://userportal.iha.dk/~01876/spatial.png

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> > Joe


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