Gnome Archive

GNOME 2.15.3 Released, Needs More Girls

Thom Holwerda 2006-06-16 Gnome 64 Comments

GNOME 2.15.3 has been released. This is a development release, en route to GNOME 2.16, scheduled for September 2006. Release notes and download instructions are listed in the release anouncement. In the meantime, GNOME needs girls.

The GNOME Journal, June Edition

Submitted by Lucas Rocha 2006-06-16 Gnome 1 Comment

The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published. Itfeatures insights into the role of end-users in the GNOME community, and an interview with Emmanuele Bassi, gnome-utils maintainer and GTK+ developer. Writers in this edition are Vincent Untz, and Lucas Rocha, respectively.

What Sucks About DEs, pt. I: Ubuntu’s GNOME

Thom Holwerda 2006-06-04 Gnome 144 Comments

I enjoy using many different desktop environments and operating systems. On a day-to-day basis, I use Finder, Explorer, GNOME, and KDE. They all have their good sides, but obviously, they have their fair share of bad sides as well. The next couple of columns will be about the latter. This week, I take a look at whatever bothers me about Ubuntu's GNOME/Linux combination (Dapper, obviously).

Submitted by Yogurth 2006-06-02 Gnome 14 Comments

BetterDesktop has published its research results concerning ease of use and usability on GNOME. "Below are videos that we have taken of user tests. Please consider when watching the videos, that they may touch on many parts of the desktop. For example, a test that deals with changing the background may involve Nautilus or GNOME Control Center. In other words, there is a lot to learn from these videos! In addition to providing the videos, we have also aggregated some of the Data Results to see stats on specific tests. We have also created some Research Reports on this data."

GNOME 2.14.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2006-05-31 Gnome 9 Comments

The latest bug fix release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.14.2. You can get release notes and download links from here. Please note that both libxml2 and libxslt tarballs need a patch and that the libxml2 tarball also needs a second patch.

GNOME 2.15.2 Released

Submitted by Philipp Esselbach 2006-05-18 Gnome 14 Comments

The second development release en route to GNOME 2.16 has been released. "GNOME 2.15.2 works well and you should definitely try it to see how well it works. So go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it." The various download locations and NEWS files are listed in the release announcement.

Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus

Submitted by Mitarai 2006-05-12 Gnome 15 Comments

"The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell. The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. That's the one I poked with a stick."

First Look: Dropline GNOME 2.14.0

Submitted by Paul 2006-05-04 Gnome 11 Comments

Linux.com takes a look at Dropline GNOME 2.14, and concludes: "I have to admit that dropline GNOME satisfies a very basic itch. I get to keep using Slackware, a distribution I have come to rely on to provide a fast, stable, and full-featured Linux, and I get a cutting-edge GNOME desktop. This allows me to see where GNOME is heading, and since it's still Slackware, I can easily add all the programs I want by downloading and compiling the source. Dropline GNOME is not Ubuntu, but then Slackware is not Ubuntu. It's not the easiest distribution to install or configure, but it just works."

GNOME Won the Desktop Battle, Will Linux Lose the War?

Thom Holwerda 2006-04-28 Gnome 228 Comments

"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle. The final victory came with the third piece of a corporate trifecta, giving GNOME the official nod from Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and finally Novell. The question is, will the triumph of GNOME lead to the rise or downfall of the Linux desktop?" Run Forrest! Run!

GNOME 2.15.1 Released

Submitted by Philipp Esselbach 2006-04-27 Gnome 13 Comments

GNOME 2.15.1 has been released. As with the Linux kernel, odd-numbered releases are developmental releases; meaning that 2.15 is the developmental branch for 2.16. You can compile it using these jhbuild modulesets (or use GARNOME). Detailed notes on the release can be found here: platform, desktop, admin, and bindings. On a related note, Dropline GNOME 2.14.1 has been released as well.

Submitted by Mitarai 2006-04-22 Gnome 30 Comments

"For years now, the Linux and open-source desktop has had the benefit of multiple software projects pushing forward to create nicer-looking, more useful environments. One of the most prominent of those projects, GNOME, recently underwent one of its twice-yearly updates, and the result is a compelling set of refinements. The newest version of GNOME, 2.14, now graces the desktop of Red Hat's Fedora Core 5 and other shipping and soon-to-arrive Linux distributions."

Submitted by thebluesgnr 2006-04-21 Gnome 10 Comments

The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published. It features insights into the Portland Project which were gained from a conversation with one of its lead architects, Waldo Bastian, an introduction to GNOME's new deskbar, an interview with Elijah Newren, GNOME's release manager, and three simple tips for designing application interfaces you should know. Writers in this edition are Sri Ramakrishna, Davyd Madeley, Lucas Rocha, and Claus Schwarm, respectively.

GNOME 2.14.1 Released

Thom Holwerda 2006-04-12 Gnome 50 Comments

GNOME 2.14.1 has been released, as the first maintenance release in the 2.14 series. Download the tarballs of the platform, desktop and bindings.

Submitted by Mitarai 2006-04-07 Gnome 17 Comments

"This presents a high-level overview of the different pieces of the GNOME Platform: libraries to write user interfaces, to integrate with the desktop, to do inter-process communication, the virtual file system, accessibility, multimedia. You should read this to know what tools you can use to perform different things in your GNOME applications."

Quick Look: GNOME 2.14

Thom Holwerda 2006-03-29 Gnome 23 Comments

Ars takes a quick look at GNOME 2.14. "The GNOME team recently announced another excellent release. GNOME 2.14 includes a variety of spiffy enhancements, bug fixes, improvements, and new features that make it the best GNOME desktop environment ever. Already available in Ubuntu Dapper and the recently released Fedora Core 5, GNOME 2.14 awaits your use and abuse. I've poked and prodded it and now I'm ready to talk about it."

40+ Suggestions for Improving GNOME

Submitted by Matt Evans 2006-03-28 Gnome 74 Comments

"Here are my few suggestions to make better desktop (making it simple but powerful). Most of them are for GNOME and related applications but for other desktop environments and applications could be also useful. This suggestions are not of type make it faster (what is also important) but of type make it more useful. Some of them are my own thoughts but some suggestions are inspired by existing programs. And even some are not real suggestions." Note that English isn't his native tongue.

Review: GNOME 2.14

Thom Holwerda 2006-03-19 Gnome 26 Comments

Linux.com reviews GNOME 2.14, and concludes: "GNOME 2.14 continues the steady improvement visible in the last few releases. It is an incremental upgrade, consisting largely of tweaks and the filling in of gaps in functionality. If few of these changes are major by themselves, the overall result is welcome. Perhaps the best way of looking at the release is not as an end in itself, but as a milestone on the road to desktop usability in free operation systems. From this perspective, GNOME 2.14 is a sign that much of the journey is already over - and that the remaining distance is less than many observers think."

GNOME 2.14.0 Released

Eugenia Loli 2006-03-16 Gnome 54 Comments

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.14, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. Foresight Linux 0.9.4 was first to incorporate GNOME 2.14 on their distribution, VMWare and Qemu images are already available in addition to their normal distribution.

Submitted by JCooper 2006-03-15 Gnome 40 Comments

"In the GNOME philosophy, we want applications that do their job, only their job, and we want those to do it perfectly. Epiphany's job is to browse the web. Only browsing the web. But browsing the web in a GNOME fashioned way." Read more here and also here.

GNOME 2.14.0-RC Released

Eugenia Loli 2006-03-01 Gnome 27 Comments

The first release candidate for GNOME 2.14 is out. This is the last GNOME unstable release before the big .0 release. Lots of new features and bug fixes have been added during this cycle; Davyd's 'Look at GNOME 2.14' tells you which. Download the platform, desktop, admin and bindings sources.