http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:01:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22531/GNOME_Journal_November_Issue/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22531/GNOME_Journal_November_Issue/ The GNOME Journal team has published issue 17 of the GNOME Journal, titled "Women In Open Source". This is their first issue with a unified theme, and with all articles written by women from the open source community. The idea and execution of this issue was created by the GNOME Women community. It comes packed with articles about GNOME and its underlying frameworks. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:57:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Jim Hodapp http://www.osnews.com/story/22487/Visual_Tour_of_GNOME_3_Shell/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22487/Visual_Tour_of_GNOME_3_Shell/ GNOME 3, the much talked about next generation GNOME introduces a radical shift from the interface found in GNOME 2.x. Digitizor has a quick visual tour of GNOME 3 in Ubuntu 9.10. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:49:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 38 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News irbis http://www.osnews.com/story/22477/GNOME_3_0_Pushed_Back_Six_Months/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22477/GNOME_3_0_Pushed_Back_Six_Months/ As most of you will know, the GNOME team is hard at work on GNOME 3.0, the first major overhaul of the platform since 2002. The release of GNOME 3.0 was originally planned for March 2010, but it has now been pushed back for six months to September 2010. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:20:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 82 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News SReilly http://www.osnews.com/story/22224/GNOME_2_28_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22224/GNOME_2_28_Released/ Today, the GNOME team has released GNOME 2.28. It builds on the solid foundation laid out by all the previous releases, and adds in a number of new features and improvements, on top of all the bug fixes and performance improvements, of course. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:01:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 33 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22107/GNOME_3_Launchers_Change_Behaviour/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22107/GNOME_3_Launchers_Change_Behaviour/ Have you ever been bitten by accidentally loading multiple instances of the same application in GNOME? When you click on the launcher of an already-running application in GNOME, it will load up another instance of the same application, instead of switching to the already running one. This can lead to bugs and other unforeseen behaviour, which of course isn't desirable. In GNOME 3, this issue has been resolved. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:31:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 46 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21935/GNOME_To_Drop_Icons_in_Buttons_Menus/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21935/GNOME_To_Drop_Icons_in_Buttons_Menus/ A common complaint about GNOME is that it has a certain fetish for icons. Menu entries, buttons - everything has an icon attached to it which often wastes space needlessly by making buttons larger than they need to be, as well as menus wider than they need to be. The good news (for me, at least) is that the next GNOME release will have all these icons removed. Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:12:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 75 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News kiddo http://www.osnews.com/story/21917/Clutter_1_0_0_Releasd/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21917/Clutter_1_0_0_Releasd/ This morning Intel has announced the release of Clutter 1.0.0, the graphics library that is gaining speed within the GNOME development community (it is used by Gnome Shell). "This toolkit provides a library/API for creating rich user interfaces in a relatively easy to use way that conceals much of the challenges of programming your application to directly use OpenGL or OpenGL ES. Clutter is already being used within Moblin V2 and its user interface is very impressive." Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:30:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News diegocg http://www.osnews.com/story/21867/Cutting_Chrome_Out_of_Nautilus/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21867/Cutting_Chrome_Out_of_Nautilus/ Quite a little interesting tidbit on Planet GNOME today. As we all know, the default file manager for the GNOME desktop is Nautilus. While there's nothing inherently wrong with it, it does have this odd interface where actually more screen space is dedicated to controls and buttons than to the actual part that matters: your files. As part of Ubuntu's Papercuts project, a fix has been worked on. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:43:03 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 64 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21242/GNOME_3_0_To_Get_GNOME_Shell_Zeitgeist/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21242/GNOME_3_0_To_Get_GNOME_Shell_Zeitgeist/ Only a few days ago, we ran an article on the future of KDE and GNOME, and which of the two had the brighter future based on their developmental processes. Barely has that discussion ended, or the GNOME engineering team comes with a pretty daunting plan to introduce a fairly massive reworking of the GNOME interface for GNOME 3.0 (2.30). Read on for the details. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:12:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 125 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21178/GNOME_Desktop_Project_Migrates_to_Git/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21178/GNOME_Desktop_Project_Migrates_to_Git/ Git has increasingly become the standard distributed source code management tool for free and open source software projects with the likes of Xorg, Samba, WINE, Perl and Ruby on Rails using it already. GNOME has now joined the Git bandwagon. A survey among GNOME contributors showed Git to be by far the most popular choice. Developers Behdad Esfahbod, Kristian Høgsberg, Owen Taylor, and Federico MenaQuintero and a number of volunteers formed a team and have helped migrate all the GNOME projects to Git. They have published the details of the migration. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:41:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Gnome 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21157/GNOME_2_26_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21157/GNOME_2_26_Released/ The GNOME team has released GNOME 2.26, the latest release in the 2.x release branch. As everyone knows, GNOME is a multi-platform open source desktop environment. The 2.26 release continues GNOME's policy of incremental updates to a stable base, and as such, it comes packed with a boatload of new features. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:34:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 58 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20978/The_State_of_the_Global_Menubar_in_GNOME/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20978/The_State_of_the_Global_Menubar_in_GNOME/ A very, very long time ago I personally advocated the inclusion of a certain feature into GNOME. We set up a poll at OSNews, which resulted in a very, very resounding "yes!" from the OSNews community - many of which are GNOME users. The feature in question was the global application menubar, which allowed the GNOME desktop to have a menu bar atop the screen similar to that of Mac OS X. The poll is long gone, the debate thread in the Bugzilla has died out, and no decision has yet been made. I wanted to know where this feature stands, and how much the developers have improved it, and I was in for a surprise. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:15:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20815/New_Volume_Control_Interface_for_GNOME/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20815/New_Volume_Control_Interface_for_GNOME/ Phoronix has a overview of the new volume control interface for GNOME currently in development. "One of the items being worked on by Red Hat for Fedora 11 is making the GNOME volume control and sound preferences area more intuitive and easier to use. With Fedora and most other distributions now using PulseAudio, they are beginning to take advantage of some of the features available through this sound server. Some of this work involves reworking the user interface for controlling GNOME Sound Preferences, which we are providing a glimpse of in this article. Among other benefits, there is finally the ability to adjust the volume level on a per-application basis." Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:48:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Gnome 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/20486/What_s_up_with_the_GNOME_Linux_Desktop_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20486/What_s_up_with_the_GNOME_Linux_Desktop_/ Seems that both Motorola and Google have interest in seeing the Linux mobile footprint evolve. With a combined contribution of $20,000, they are focusing on major changes for GNOME 3. "It will be more than a tweak," Stormy Peters stated. "It will be the whole user experience, from the look and feel, to how files are managed to how it syncs with your mobile phone -- really the whole package. It will be very much a change for users and how they use their computers." Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:20:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Gnome 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20322/GNOME_2_24_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20322/GNOME_2_24_Released/ The GNOME project has released GNOME 2.24 today. In case you're new here: "GNOME 2.24 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalisation and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as e-mail, groupware, web browsing, file management, multimedia and games. Furthermore, GNOME provides a flexible and powerful platform for software developers, both on the desktop and in mobile applications." GNOME 2.24 comes packed with changes. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:47:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News