[KLUG Advocacy] A gaagle of Ximian Desktop 2 Linkx

[Adam Williams]

> http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=362
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111880,00.asp
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1114350,00.asp
> http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/cb_headline.cgi?&story_file=bw.060203/231535105&directory=/google&header_file=header.htm&footer_file=
> http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1012067.html
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=977043321&fp=16&fpid=0

And finally one with some detail -

http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3705

I can open a file in OO from a browseable SMB share?!  No smbmount
crap?!

Bullet fonts that aren't completely *&&^%&*))## up?!

Those two features alone are worth $99

The OO tweaks -
- ~1,000 new alpha-blended icons that are aesthetically consistent with
the rest of the desktop. We use large icon mode by default. We also have
some other new art in some of the wizards and of course the splash
(which no longer makes your desktop unusable while each application
starts up).
        
- Shares the Gtk theme elements ("theme chameleoning"). Uses fontconfig,
AA fonts everywhere in the UI now.
- Mapping of MSFT document fonts to Agfa fonts (which XD2 includes).
-Also, our artists drew a whole new font just to handle the bullet
mappings (which aren't fully covered by Agfa's fonts).
- GNOME-VFS integration so you can open any files the VFS can get to.
This includes files on SMB and NFS shares. We even handle the
authentication for these shares (Michael Meeks redid the authentication
layer in OOo), so you get prompted if the share is password protected.
- Nice CUPS printing integration so you get the same printer list in OOo
you get everywhere else in the desktop.
- Support for the recent files spec so that System->Recent Files
reflects the documents you've opened in OOo.
- Uses MSFT file formats by default, reflecting the reality of most of
the documents you will receive. No longer tells you you're about to lose
all your data when you save in an MSFT format.
- Removed the non-redistributable GPC library, replaced it with libart
so that we can ship OOo with better support for importing PowerPoint
presentations.
- Integrates nicely with Galeon and Evolution. OOo HEAD actually does
Evolution addresbook mailmerge, which we're looking forward to.
- Includes a number of foreign-language dictionaries.
- We've also done some performance tweaks and fixed a number of
customer-reported bugs. Our turnaround time on fixes for document
importing issues is actually averaging 24-48 hours, which is pretty
remarkable.
        
Wow!
        
I really want to know if it comes with a font config (GTK2) version of
GIMP.