GNOME emerges with new Nautilus

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By Alun Williams

Posted on 6 Feb 2003 at 15:14

There's a new version of the popular Linux desktop environment, GNOME.

Version 2.2 sees a redesigned interface and new applications, as well as improved performance and accessibility support.

The UI, Nautilus, is among the elements overhauled since the major release of version 2.0 six months ago. It's become more integrated with the rest of the desktop and other applications. For example, context-sensitive menus can link the file manager to functions of other applications.

In terms of multimedia support, the "View as" feature in Nautilus has been extended - you can now see previews of image and video files, instead of the normal icon. And GNOME's multimedia utilities, Gstreamer, support a wider range of file formats.

Theme handling has also been improved, along with font enhancements and GTK+ 2.2 now supports simultaneous connections to multiple X servers, and X servers with multiple screens.

You can find the full drill about version 2.2 in the Release Notes PDF document.

GNOME is produced by the GNU free software project. As well as Linux (that's GNU/Linux, the folks at GNU remind you), other supported platforms include, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple's Darwin.

More info - and downloads - can be found at Web site.

Those people wishing to help the developers of GNU should check out the Getting Involved section of the Web site.