I find GNOME 2 impressive to say the least. I know that Celestia development will have to turn in that direction sooner or later. I'm hopeful that it'll be sooner than GNOME 2.2! I'll wait for a GNOME 2 version of Celestia if necessary. I'm dumping GTK 1.2 stuff right and left. Mozilla is keeping GTK 1.2 on the system for the time being, but not for ...
With that said, I thank the development team for their continued work on Celestia.