{"id":50,"date":"2004-04-06T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/2004\/04\/06\/gnome-26\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:49:16","slug":"gnome-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/gnome-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnome 2.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11349,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kde.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251030225325\\\/https:\\\/\\\/kde.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 21:21:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-12 07:28:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-23 15:28:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-07 13:06:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 20:07:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-22 04:40:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-30 08:15:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 02:40:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-28 23:02:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 01:01:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-09 23:28:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-26 11:40:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 06:14:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 10:06:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 16:19:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 02:33:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 08:58:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 08:58:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11350,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/enlightenment.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251102042006\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.enlightenment.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 21:21:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 21:21:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11351,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.yukihime.com\\\/comics\\\/paremix&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250617035155\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.yukihime.com\\\/comics\\\/paremix\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 21:21:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-12 07:28:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-23 15:28:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-07 13:06:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 20:07:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-22 04:40:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-30 08:15:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 02:40:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-28 23:02:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 01:01:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-09 23:28:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-26 11:40:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 06:14:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 10:06:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 16:19:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 02:33:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 08:58:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 08:58:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Early yesterday morning I took the plunge and upgraded to Gnome 2.6, amazingly everything went very smoothly and my desktop is <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/gnome.png\">looking<\/a> even better than before! The only change which I took an instant disliking to was Nautilus\u2019 new spatial file browsing mode which I very quickly turned off. Aside from that everything seems a lot quicker and browsing windows shares is now seamless and crash-free. Why anyone would want to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kde.org\/\">KDE<\/a> (or other WM\u2019s such as the ugly mess that is ironically called \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/enlightenment.org\/\">Enlightenment<\/a>\u2018) is beyond me but I guess thats what makes Linux such a great OS in that if you don\u2019t like something you can change it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever wondered what would happen if you got a load of Japanese school kids to fill in the words in an American-style comic strip as an exercise in learning English? No? I hadn\u2019t either until I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yukihime.com\/comics\/paremix\/\">this<\/a> site which I found fairly amusing, especially when it comes to their attempts at humor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early yesterday morning I took the plunge and upgraded to Gnome 2.6, amazingly everything went very smoothly and my desktop is looking even better than before! The only change which I took an instant disliking to was Nautilus\u2019 new spatial file browsing mode which I very quickly turned off. 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