http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 23 May 2013 19:20:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/26919/MATE_Desktop_1_6_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26919/MATE_Desktop_1_6_released/ "The team is proud to announce the release of MATE Desktop 1.6. This release is a giant step forward from the 1.4 release. In this release, we have replaced many deprecated packages and libraries with new technologies available in GLib. We have also added a lot of new features to MATE." Look at those screenshots. This is what GNOME is supposed to be: elegant, understated, to-the-point. I should try this. Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:43:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 34 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/26896/GNOME_3_8_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26896/GNOME_3_8_released/ "The GNOME Project has officially released GNOME 3.8 today. This latest version of GNOME 3 delivers major new features, a brand new application and a host of smaller bug fixes and enhancements." Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:30:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/26763/GNOME_to_get_sandboxing_for_applications/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26763/GNOME_to_get_sandboxing_for_applications/ "Some GNOME developers are planning to implement an app format that allows developers to provide their Linux programs in distribution-independent files that can be installed as easily as smartphone apps. A sandbox model is supposed to isolate the apps from each other, and from the rest of the system, in a way that goes further than the isolation in current Linux distributions. Various developers worked to conceptualise such "Linux apps" at the GNOME Developer Experience Hackfest, which was held in the run-up to FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels. At the hackfest, the GNOME developers also declared JavaScript as the de-facto standard for GNOME programming." Right, because they haven't alienated enough of their users. Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:29:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 34 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Anonymous http://www.osnews.com/story/26757/JavaScript_becoming_default_language_for_GNOME_applications/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26757/JavaScript_becoming_default_language_for_GNOME_applications/ "At the GNOME Developer Experience Hackfest in Brussels, the GNOME developer community has tackled the problem of specifying a canonical development language for writing applications for the GNOME desktop. According to a blog post by Collabora engineer and GNOME developer Travis Reitter, members of the GNOME team are often asked what tools should be used when writing an application for the desktop environment and, up until now, there has been no definitive answer. The team has now apparently decided to standardise on JavaScript for user-facing applications while still recommending C as the language to write system libraries in." Discuss. Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:41:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 75 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/26567/GNOME_to_officially_support_set_of_classic_extensions/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26567/GNOME_to_officially_support_set_of_classic_extensions/ Not even GNOME itself could ignore the GNOME 3 criticism for much longer. "As part of the planning for the DropOrFixFallbackMode feature, we've decided that we will compile a list of supported gnome-shell extensions. This will be a small list, focused on just bringing back some central 'classic' UX elements: classic alt tab, task bar, min/max buttons, main menu. To ensure that these extensions keep working, we will release them as a tarball, just like any other module." Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:32:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 100 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/26541/Gnome_to_drop_fallback_mode/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26541/Gnome_to_drop_fallback_mode/ "I'm writing to inform you that the release team discussed Drop or Fix Fallback Mode yesterday. We've come to the conclusion that we can't maintain fallback mode in reasonable quality, and are better off dropping it." Gnome-fallback has been my refuge, as I find both Unity and Gnome 3's shell unusable. Yes, we have been warned this would happen. I thought the cost of maintaining gnome-panel would be so low that it might never need to happen. But as it appears, it is deemed necessary. As for me, I'm bound for something Qt, as I am very angry at Gnome for abandoning its 'classic' users. Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:18:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Gnome 61 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News pepa http://www.osnews.com/story/26537/GNOME_et_al_rotting_in_threes/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26537/GNOME_et_al_rotting_in_threes/ "Theme development is a tedious and difficult task, and for the GTK devs to be so careless in breaking their API at every turn disrespects the many hours people put into making themes for it. [...] I was given to believe that this breakage stems from a Microsoft-like climate of preventing users from customizing their systems, and deliberately breaking the work of others so that your 'brand' is the best. Anytime I hear the word 'brand' being used in Linux, I know something valuable is being poisoned." I find the tone of this one a bit too harsh and overly negative at times, but his point still stands. Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:54:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 101 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Elv13 http://www.osnews.com/story/26418/GNOME_3_6_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26418/GNOME_3_6_released/ "Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 3.6, the latest version of the popular free desktop, as well as the GNOME developer platform. GNOME 3.6 is the third major update of GNOME 3. It builds on the foundations that we have laid with the previous 3.x releases and offers a greatly enhanced experience. The exciting new features and improvements in this release include a new login experience, integrated input methods, a refresh of the message tray, support for more online accounts, improved accessibility, and many more." Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:44:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 33 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/26397/Review_Gnome_3/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26397/Review_Gnome_3/ "Gnome 3 has received a lot of disapproval of late, from the Gnome foundation being charged with not taking care of its users, or losing mindshare, to Gnome 3 itself being an unusable mess. I've been using Gnome 3 myself for a few months to sort the truth from the fiction, and to try and understand just how the Gnome foundation expects their newest shell to be used. I will end with some thoughts on how Gnome 3 can be improved. The review will require a fairly lengthy preface, however." Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:14:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Gnome 51 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News thesunnyk http://www.osnews.com/story/26289/McCann_Optimistic_about_GNOME_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26289/McCann_Optimistic_about_GNOME_/ In a recent interview with the Austrian newssite derStandard.at, GNOME designer Jon McCann talks about GNOME OS, the consequences of Canonical leaving GNOME behind, the purported removal of features and the future role of Linux distributions. "I think there was a time when GNOME had kind of a crisis, we didn't know where we wanted to go, we were lacking goals and vision - that was the end of the GNOME2 cycle. So we pulled together and formed a vision where we want to go - and actually did something about it. And now we have been marching on that plan for quite some time." Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:04:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 48 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News suka http://www.osnews.com/story/26259/GNOME_OS_detailed_new_application_framework_SDK_and_more/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26259/GNOME_OS_detailed_new_application_framework_SDK_and_more/ The future of GNOME - an interesting subject. GNOME 3 has been out and about for a while, and it hasn't exactly been a smashing success. One of the efforts to take GNOME to the next level is what the team refers to as GNOME OS - but in reality, it's a set of improvements to GNOME that are just as interesting to GNOME-the-desktop-environment. Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:29:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 74 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/26227/GNOME_staring_into_the_abyss_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26227/GNOME_staring_into_the_abyss_/ Honest question. Do you think the GNOME project is as healthy today as it was, say, 4 years ago? Benjamin Otte explains that no, it isn't. GNOME lacks developers, goals, mindshare and users. The situation as he describes it, is a lot more dire than I personally thought. Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:41:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 157 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25759/GNOME_3_4_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25759/GNOME_3_4_released/ "GNOME 3.4 introduces a range of new features. A new document search facility allows quick access to content stored both on your device and online. Smooth scrolling means that moving through content is slick and graceful. New application menus, which are located on the top bar, provide a useful way to access application options and actions." And a lot more. Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:16:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 53 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/25605/A_new_approach_to_GNOME_application_design/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25605/A_new_approach_to_GNOME_application_design/ "One of the things that the GNOME design crew have been focusing on recently is creating a new approach to application design for GNOME 3. We want GNOME applications to be thoroughly modern, and we want them to be attractive and a delight to use. That means that we have to do application design differently to how we've done it in the past." Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:23:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 71 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25451/Cinnamon_GNOME_Shell_Fork_with_a_GNOME2-Like_Layout/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25451/Cinnamon_GNOME_Shell_Fork_with_a_GNOME2-Like_Layout/ "Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint founder, has started working on a GNOME Shell fork called Cinnamon, which tries to offer a layout similar to GNOME 2, with emphasis on 'making users feel at home and providing them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience'. Among the features that we'll probably see in Cinnamon are GNOME2-like notifications and systray icons, option to change the panel position and other panel options like autohide, etc. Some of these features are already available through Mint GNOME Shell Extensions (MGSE), but their functionality is pretty limited." Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:38:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Gnome 49 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Anonymous