Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10) & GNOME 2.16 Features
GNOME 2.16 Beta has been in Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10) for the past few days [or even a week or so]. It is functioning extremely well. I’ve seen some occasional crashes with Epiphany and Nautilus but I hope that it will be fixed soon. Other than that, there are lots of new things in GNOME 2.16:
- Speed Improvements: Nautilus, Evolution, Tomboy, GEdit all have had great speed improvements. Evolution used to use around ~45M on my machine and now it uses barely 25M. Its functionality has improved as well. Nautilus uses less memory. Tomboy/Mono have had some speed improvements as well. As usual, GNOME Terminal has also undergone some speed improvements.
- Features: Tomboy has the functionality and stability to be accepted to the GNOME 2.16 Release. It has been proposed and will be accepted granted a few changes be made to Gtk# Bindings. Evolution now has a Vertical View for those who are accustomed to MS Outlook. GEdit is also very stable now and it has a much faster startup time (again speed/memory improvements) and I have been using more of its diverse features such as the python console, the file browser in the left, all of which are fantastic and fast. Baobab has been added and it is an extremely useful tool for those who would like to see Disk Usage Analysis. GNOME System Monitor’s “Devices” tab has been renamed more aptly to “File Systems”. Rhythmbox has also improved in terms of speed. Banshee, although not an official part of GNOME, is awesome. I have been loving it. It runs great and it is stable even from CVS. It has not yet crashed on me. Deskbar Applet is also coming along very well. Its GUI version [meaning as a window instead of an applet on the Panel] looks more polished.
As for Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, there have been speed improvements in terms of booting, but it still needs some work, and I am sure that it will be optimized by the release date. It has recognized my USB Camera and my USB Flashdrive out of the box, without any work. I had never tested it but it’s amazing – as hardware support is increasing for Linux and I’m extremely happy about that. NetworkManager has recognized my Wired Network connection, which makes me all the more excited. Firefox 2.0 Beta (Bon Echo) is in the Repositories right now, and it is functioning quite well. Epiphany is also functioning quite well but I have experienced some crashes – which I had never experienced before. As for OpenOffice.org, it has the latest 2.0.3 Version. It is indeed faster, and I have been able to open documents faster in OOo than in AbiWord that comes with Ubuntu, which makes me very happy. So, without further ado, here are the screenshots:
Default Desktop Edgy Eft:-
About GNOME: 2.15.91 on Edgy
Alacarte: Alacarte is the most disappointing part of this release as it is extremely slow and loads slower than Firefox/Evolution.
Baobab: Disk Usage Analyzer
Deskbar Applet: Very Impressive Release
Ekiga: Despite having never used it, I think it looks great
Epiphany 2.15.91: A bit Buggy right now but looks more polished and getting closer to be on par with Firefox
Evolution (2.71): Splash & Vertical View
Firefox on Edgy Eft (Bon Echo):
GEdit (2.15.91): Very Functional and Beautiful Interface – Extremely Impressive
GNOME System Monitor (2.5.91): Renamed previous “Devices” tab to “File Systems”
Nautilus 2.5.91: Still needs some improvements. nautilus-send-to has been crashing for me.
NetworkManager: Very Impressive
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Splash & Writer: It has some speed improvements and looks nicely integrated as well.
Totem: Totem-Gstreamer has had some nice speed improvements as well. Gstreamer has always been well to me after installing the gstreamer0.10-plugins-* ofcourse. This release looks fantastic as well.
Yelp, finally! (2.15.91): Looks normal. I don’t use Yelp as much so I don’t know but it looks faster.
So, on the whole, the Ubuntu Edgy and GNOME 2.16 Experience is worth waiting for. I hope that the minor bug issues will be fixed soon. I will file the bugs as necessary so it can help the developers. I encourage you to do so as well. I cannot issue any ratings because the software developers know where they stand, they don’t need me to tell them how good their software is. All I can say is keep it up! 
Great Job Guys!
[Edit: 08-16-06]
I completely forgot to mention the new Gtk2 Print Dialog. It looks more polished than what I remember. I believe that this is a major step for both Novell (because of their Enterprise dealings) and also for all of us GNOME Users. Here are the screenshots of Evince using the new Print Dialog:-
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you can say something about the panels, if they can be backgrounded by the app’s windows?
Regarding the panels, no – I do not believe that they can be background by the app’s windows.
As far as the Chinese Fonts are concerned, I really don’t know but I have not seen any comments on the forums about it being better either but I haven’t seen any posts criticizing them either. I know my response doesn’t help but that only reflects my awareness of how the fonts are in Edgy.
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Edgy kommt voran
ten genaue Fortschritte von Ubuntu mit. Umso besser fand ich die Screenshots in diesem Blog. Vor allem schnellerer Start von Gnome und Openoffice finde ich interessant.
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