On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 21:46 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > On 8/21/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That one, yes. Luca, you were almost as fast as Tuomas (via IM). :) > > > > Thanks! > > > > I'm writing few lines about it, since it was my first GNOME > impression: > > > > "It was love at a first glance. In fact I got seduced even before > > stepping in the desktop itself. That GDM splash with some old houses > > had character, it was totally disruptive with any boot screen I had > > seen before." > > Whoa, time-travelling. I recall that when I first used redhat 7.2 I > also liked GNOME's look, still I don't know why... > I recall something with a lighthouse, I think it was the splash screen > also. Anybody knows where can I find that one? Is my memory ok?
I remember the lighthouse thing too... Also around redhat 7.2 I remember logging into GNOME and finding only a couple of items in the panel and a feeling of "what do I do now?". I installed KDE then and it was a lot more inviting, and I started hacking on Qt to fix its problems rendering Persian... However with redhat 7.3 and 8 came the Bluecurve theme, and GNOME 2 too, that was totally different and usable. Don't exactly remember how it happened, next thing I remember I was submitting Pango patches to bugzilla... Jrb told me that almost all Red Hat versions can be installed inside a virtual machine on RHEL-5 / Fedora. One should do that and take lots of shots of different GNOME versions and features, then we can create a video showcasing the evolution of GNOME since 0.1... -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
