http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:33:42 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 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 67 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 http://www.osnews.com/story/25249/Gnome_3_Go_to_Shell_Not_Just_Yet_Thanks/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25249/Gnome_3_Go_to_Shell_Not_Just_Yet_Thanks/ Antonio Ospite explores Gnome 3 in fall-back mode and tries to make it look and behave more like Gnome 2.32 again. This summer Linus Torvalds made it to the news for complaining about the gnome-shell design; Gnome fall-back mode is the solution for those like Linus who can't - or better, do not want to - use gnome-shell just yet. Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:35:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Gnome 81 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Antonio Ospite http://www.osnews.com/story/25195/GNOME_3_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25195/GNOME_3_2_Released/ GNOME 3.2 has been released. It's basically a collection of relatively small updates, improvements, and bug fixes. As whole, it's a pretty big upgrade, but there's nothing really that stands out to me - probably because I don't use GNOME3 myself so I really have no idea where it's lacking (if at all). Any GNOME3 users care to shine a light on this one? Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:31:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 31 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Hiev http://www.osnews.com/story/25078/GNOME_Designer_Jon_McCann_About_the_Future_of_GNOME3/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25078/GNOME_Designer_Jon_McCann_About_the_Future_of_GNOME3/ In an extensive interview with the Austrian tech site derStandard.at/web GNOME3 designer Jon McCann talks about the future of GNOME3 - and why it's all about the apps - why he is convinced that KDE and Ubuntu are actually different operating systems and also reacts to the outspoken criticism against GNOME 3 which has been making the rounds lately. Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:48:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Gnome 43 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News suka http://www.osnews.com/story/25022/Linus_Torvalds_Not_a_Fan_of_Gnome_3/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25022/Linus_Torvalds_Not_a_Fan_of_Gnome_3/ Linus Torvalds piped up in the comments of a Google+ posting by Linux kernel hacker Dave Jones to air his true feelings about Gnome 3: "it's not that I have rendering problems with gnome3 (although I do have those too), it's that the user experience of Gnome3 even without rendering problems is unacceptable." People care what Linus thinks, and when he ditched KDE for Gnome a couple of years ago, people took note. Now he's using Xfce. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:10:50 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Gnome 213 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Sin2x http://www.osnews.com/story/24762/GNOME_Discusses_Becoming_a_Linux-only_Project/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24762/GNOME_Discusses_Becoming_a_Linux-only_Project/ Something's - once again - brewing within the GNOME project. While a mere suggestion for now, and by no means any form of official policy, influential voices within the GNOME project are arguing that GNOME should become a full-fledged Linux-based operating system, and that the desktop environment should drop support for other operating systems such as Solaris and the BSDs. I have a feeling this isn't going to go down well with many of our readers. Thu, 19 May 2011 18:59:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 170 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/24615/Ars_Reviews_GNOME_3_0/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24615/Ars_Reviews_GNOME_3_0/ Ars has reviewed GNOME 3.0, and concludes: "The solid technical work that has been done under the hood really complements the new user experience features in GNOME 3.0. Despite some of the gaps in the feature set, I think that the environment and the new shell is a good starting point for building something even better. The GNOME contributors will be able to iterate on the design and move it forward in future updates." Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:30:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Megatux http://www.osnews.com/story/24609/GNOME_3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24609/GNOME_3_Released/ The day is finally here, the day that the GNOME team releases GNOME 3.0, the first major revision of the GNOME project since 2002. Little of GNOME 2.x is left in GNOME 3.0, and as such, you could call it GNOME's KDE4. We're living in fortunate times, what, with two wildly divergent open source desktops. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:50:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 205 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Cytor http://www.osnews.com/story/24527/Styling_GTK_with_CSS_and_what_GNOME_Is_Missing/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24527/Styling_GTK_with_CSS_and_what_GNOME_Is_Missing/ Carlos Garnacho shows how you can use CSS to style GTK+ apps. There are four other articles in English and Spanish in the new edition of GNOME Journal, including an interview with GNOME cofounder Federico Mena Quintero. He answers the question, "what is GNOME badly missing?" Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:29:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Gnome 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Sumana Harihareswara http://www.osnews.com/story/24499/GNOME_3_Removes_Minimise_Maximise_Buttons/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24499/GNOME_3_Removes_Minimise_Maximise_Buttons/ I have to admit I've been struggling with this one for a while, most importantly because I haven't used GNOME 3 yet; I'm setting up my own little company right now, so time's a little short. As such, all I can do here is cover the arguments given - which, in my book, have both their strong as well as their weak points. Yes, GNOME 3 will not have buttons for minimising or maximising windows. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:31:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 128 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/24461/Gnome_Shell_2_91_90_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24461/Gnome_Shell_2_91_90_Released/ "Gnome Shell 2.91.90 was released yesterday getting some fine adjustments according to the release announcement: 'This release just about concludes user interface changes anticipated before GNOME 3.0. The only significant change we expect after this release is to add a native network indicator based on NetworkManager 0.9.' Gnome Shell 2.91.90 brings new automatic workspaces, removed minimize and maximize buttons from window titlebars, a PolicyKit authentication agent and more." Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:36:25 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Gnome 52 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Alin http://www.osnews.com/story/24293/GNOME_3_Website_Launches/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24293/GNOME_3_Website_Launches/ "The GNOME Project launches the new GNOME 3 website that brings you all the latest news about the new desktop of the same name. The new GNOME 3 website walks the curious as well as the new and seasoned GNOME user through all that the new GNOME 3 desktop is." Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:00:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) Gnome 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/23665/Ubuntu_We_Have_No_Plans_to_Fork_GNOME/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23665/Ubuntu_We_Have_No_Plans_to_Fork_GNOME/ Ubuntu's community manager Jono Bacon talks in an interview with derStandard.at about the relationship between Ubuntu and GNOME, GNOME Shell, Unity and why the netbook market is that important to Canonical. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:34:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Gnome 66 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News suka http://www.osnews.com/story/23629/New_GNOME_Shell_Mockup_Looks_Good_-_But_Is_It_Better_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23629/New_GNOME_Shell_Mockup_Looks_Good_-_But_Is_It_Better_/ Yesterday it was announced that GNOME 3.0 is delayed till next year. The extra time has given the Shell Developers some more time to play around with new concepts and they have come up a new mockup. Here are the new mockups. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:38:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Gnome 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News