Fixed in this Release

The GNOME 2.0.x Desktop releases are devoted to bugfixes, translations, user interface consistency, and general polish of our major 2.0 Desktop release. In GNOME 2.0.2, you'll see the results of continued performance and stability work, and plenty of bug fixes:

Major bugs mentioned in the previous release notes have now been fixed and are listed here:

8.1. Menu editing returns

Menu editing returns in GNOME 2.0.2! Because a number of bugs existed in the menu editing implementation, and the best fixes for some of them were not reverse compatible, we did not include menu editing in previous releases. Details on the menu architecture and tips for manual editing of menus can be found in our menu editing guide.

8.2. New mime type handlers not always visible in nautilus

When a new mime-type handler was installed, it did not show up correctly in Nautilus right-click menus. Was fixed in GNOME 2.0.2.

8.3. NFS-mounted $HOME directory

For people with NFS-mounted $HOME directories, it was not possible to drag files from the Nautilus view windows to the trashcan (it would generate an error about the trash file not being a directory). This was fixed in GNOME 2.0.1 and was bug 82644.

8.4. .gnome

GNOME 2 uses $HOME/.gnome2 and $HOME/.gnome2_private as directories for storing stuff. However, you could not completely remove $HOME/.gnome, since gnome-vfs needs it and did not create it, so any modifications that gnome-vfs needs to save in the user's directory would not be saved. Thus, users needed to create a $HOME/.gnome directory before starting GNOME 2. This was fixed in 2.0.1 and was bug 84183.

8.5. Cannot drag and drop from Nautilus list view

It wasn't possible to drag and drop files from the list view as you can in the icon view. This was fixed in GNOME 2.0.1 and was bug 74974.