Gnome 2.4 is fast!

Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

i feel my gnome2.2 is slower than windoze

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by some reason X dont use my GPU very well, and X crashes often :/

i think i will upgrade to gnome2.4

jufoa · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:59 am Post subject:

yep, gnome 2.4 is pretty fast, but i feel that it is lacking new features. I can see almost nothing new compared to 2.2. Nautilus still doesnt have any usable viewmodes/file listing modes.

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

upgraded last night, yeh it's faster

Evangelion · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:05 pm Post subject:

cggiriraj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 83

Hi all,
Gnome 2.4 is actually gr8..Good sped improvement and wonderful response time in many apps. Pdf reader also wonderful.

Have fun
Giri

Crispy Beef · Apprentice Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 194 Location: UK

Having just switched from Windows to Linux I thought I'd make a few observations about Gnome, bearing in mind I'm still fairly new to Gnome and using Linux as my main OS (I've been using it from the command line on servers for a while though).

I'm still using Gnome 2.2 here and I do find Nautilus a little restrictive in a few ways. One of the biggest for me is the way right-clicking on stuff works.

I want to copy a file from one place to another, so I right-click on the file and select "Copy", I have Nautlilus in tree view and try to right-click on a directory to "Paste" the file. This doesn't seem to work. To actually paste files with the context menu you have to do the right-click over a another file/directory in the main window, and if you do it over a directory the file still gets copied to the current working dir. Just doesn't seem intuitive to me, unless there's an option somewhere to change the behaviour.

The other main gripe, is that you have to manually refresh directories. If I copy a file or something into a dir then I'd like that dir to be updated without me having to click the reload button.

They're the main issues that I have, most other things seem to work fine to me, rigging apps to launch with specific MIME types is easy enough and in general I'm getting along with Gnome just fine. I have used KDE briefly, but not enough to make any real comments about it.

When I have a spare evening free I'll probably have a go at upgrading to 2.4 and see what that's like. Hopefully it won't nuke everything.

I'm not trying to flame, just pointing out the things that were obvious to me during the first week of using Gnome.
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