Re: GNOME 2.0 Schedule

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

> (Nonetheless, I do think replacing the control center, decent keynav,
> lack of flicker, AA fonts, accessibility, and a few random things that
> will inevitably happen, will be a noticeable user improvement. Not

plus a number of nice things I'm noticing in GTK... like better warning
dialogue icons (for the most part, some of them could scare novice
users), pressing a key to activate a button actually shows it depressing
(this is surprisingly important!), and general improvements in
appearance. oh, and lets not forget double buffering...

These are not inconsequential changes, and users *will* notice. I have
enjoyed having anti-aliasing on my computer a lot, and it will be great
to have that in mainstream GNOME, and that's just one of many new
features.

Choosing a more attractive default theme (since of course, we will be
using metathemes rather than having component specific themes ;-) would
be another way to significantly improve at least the first impression
with little effort on our part.

-Seth