Hoary improvements

So, Jorge wants a meme, eh? Here we go:

Massive boot time decrease We went from 90+ seconds in Warty to roughly 30 seconds in Hoary. Plus GDM starts near the top of rc2, so loading all your services doesn't block you from getting to your desktop. Finally

A GStreamer-based totem that doesn't suck completely. Yay! gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg is even in universe.

Man/info support in yelp. I think this deserves special mention. Finally, an info viewer that doesn't suck massively. Shame it didn't make it into GNOME 2.10 (and thus, I'm technically not repeating :), but it's in Hoary.

And, well, I guess I have to give a "++" to everything he said. Bastard took all the obvious rocking things in Hoary.

GNOME 2.10 new module list

Here it is, courtesy desktop-devel-list:

Accepted:
* gnome-backgrounds
* gnome-doc-utils
* gnome-menus
* sound-juicer (pending feedback from Ross)
* totem

The big new thing for this release is Totem (with the GStreamer backend, much thanks to Ronald Bultje). Also a new 3-menu layout (using shiny and new menu code based on the freedesktop menu spec), and a default set of backgrounds.

Sound-Juicer may be pulled since SJ2 (the one that plays CDs as well as rips) will not be finished in time for 2.10. gnome-doc-utils is a dependency for the new branch of yelp which uses gecko instead of gtkhtml2 for rendering. This causes major a11y regressions which may not be accepted in 2.10.

So, a media player, new menus, and backgrounds. Not exactly a star-studded release. Still, there are many great things coming down the pike, like beagle, and cairo as well as wider use of DBUS, HAL, and GStreamer (notice something common in those URLs?). I'd say we have an awesome time ahead of us.

Also, gnome-blog seems to want to put the topic in the body for blogger. Somewhat annoying.

Hello, World!

So, whiprush pestered me into setting up a blog. There's many blogs out there, but this one is mine.

(lets see if gnome-blog works with blogger)