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Gnome 2.10 Released

Submitted by Mark Dillavou 2005-03-09 Gnome 87 Comments

Gnome 2.10 has been released. "It includes a number of interesting new features and hundreds of bug fixes" along with a video player and a CD-ripping utility.

Bounties for Gnome’s Optimization

Submitted by Ben Mauer 2005-03-06 Gnome 128 Comments

Novell and OSNews are sponsoring the memory reduction project led by Novell's Ben Mauer by providing bounties to developers to help to clean up bloat in GNOME and related programs. If you are a developer and you are interested in some extra cash or prizes by making Gnome more usable on machines with 128 MBs of RAM (very usual configuration in developing countries or even European businesses), please read here. Related post here.

Gnome 2.12 to Include the ClearLooks Theme as Default?

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-28 Gnome 205 Comments

Red Hat engineers announced today that the very popular ClearLooks theme engine will probably be the default theme for the Gnome 2.12. The theme was developed by Richard Stellingwerff helped out by Daniel "Spark" Borgmann, others, and with some help from myself on the usability side. This was a much needed refresh of the Gnome default desktop (old theme, new theme screenshots). Hopefully, a more usable variant of the Winter-Bold window manager theme (get matching colors, on-mouse-overs, don't get so greyed out when unfocused, buttons better vertically centered etc) will make it in as the companion of ClearLooks on Gnome instead of the currently bundled (and not as sexy) Industrial. Update: Elsewhere, GTK+ 2.6.3 was released, with bug fixes mainly for the Win32 platform.

GNOME 2.8.3 released

Submitted by Philipp Esselbach 2005-02-22 Gnome 55 Comments

GNOME 2.8.3 has been released: This is the third and last maintenance release of the stable 2.8.x series of GNOME and it contains a huge amount of bugfixes and other improvements since the last release. Elsewhere, a user is discussing the things that annoy him about Gnome.

Improving the User Experience for Desktop Sysadmins – Sabayon

Submitted by Seth 2005-02-18 Gnome 52 Comments

Sabayon is GNOME's first major design targeted at improving the user experience for people who administer GNOME systems, and hopefully the start of an initiative toward designing for this important group of users.

Introduction to Optimising GNOME Apps; Gnome 2.10b2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-11 Gnome 69 Comments

This is a brief introduction to Gnome optimization, both the hows and the whys. Details of individual tools and techniques are left for later articles, but a collection of hints and tricks is provided. Update: GNOME 2.10 Beta 2 is the first pre-release intended for wide public scrutiny before the final release.

GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 Public Testing Released

Submitted by Metin Amiroff 2005-02-03 Gnome 39 Comments

Also known as 2.9.90, GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 is the first pre-release intended for wide public scrutiny before the final release in March.

A Sneak Peek at GNOME 2.10

Submitted by ntl 2005-01-18 Gnome 68 Comments

GNOME 2.10 is going to be the latest and greatest thing from the GNOME Desktop Project this March 9th. Here is a sneak peek of some of the things that are currently in the GNOME 2.9 development snapshot.

Gnome 2.9.4 Dev Release Available

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-13 Gnome 20 Comments

The fourth development release of upcoming Gnome 2.10 is now available.

The GNOME Journal, January Edition

Submitted by Jim Hodapp 2005-01-12 Gnome 44 Comments

The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. This second issue covers some technical articles, including CD/DVD creation, connecting to remote resources, and how to get help from the GNOME community. Also, will GNOME pass the Liberal Arts major test? Developer topic s are also covered, as Seth Nickell takes a look at the "Experimental Culture" surrounding GNOME development and Christian Hammond sheds light on the concept of desktop presence.

GNOME 2.9.3 Released

Submitted by Philipp Esselbach 2004-12-25 Gnome 28 Comments

GNOME 2.9.3 Development Release is now available, more info here.

GnomeMeeting 1.2 Released

Submitted by John 2004-12-13 Gnome 25 Comments

GnomeMeeting, the VoIP and IP telephony application for Linux systems, just released version 1.2. It will be the last release to support only H.323, as next release will also support SIP. The new version sports integration with Novell Evolution 2.00, PC-To-Phone calls with no additional hardware and free codecs, and Rendez-Vous support. See http://www.gnomemeeting.org for more info.

GNOME Desktop and Developer platform 2.8.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-08 Gnome 28 Comments

The GNOME Desktop and Developer platform 2.8.2 is now released. Announcement, changelog.

GNOME 2.9.2 Development Release Available

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-03 Gnome 40 Comments

In this GNOME 2.9.2 development release is the new 'gnome-menus' module, which you will need. It is a new XDG spec compliant menu system.

Gnome 2.8 – what’s new and cool

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-29 Gnome 67 Comments

Karl Fischer takes a walk through the latest version of Gnome, version 2.8 (screenshots), to illustrate a few of the best new features of this very popular desktop environment.

A walk in the park with Java-Gnome and GTK#

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-25 Gnome 40 Comments

This is an analysis comparing Java-Gnome and GTK#, in the source code level. Update: Screenshots from "Free Swing".

The Upcoming Changes of the Gnome Subsystem

Eugenia Loli 2004-11-15 Gnome 49 Comments

Anders Carlsson of Imendio outlines and explains (copy of the text) the API changes that are coming with the Gnome 3.0 release in the future. On other toolkit news, GTK# 1.0.4 and beta 1.9.0 (wrapping around Gnome 2.6) was released recently. You can rate GTK# here. Update: On yet another toolkit news, the latest release of the Ruby language bindings for Gnome, adds support for GnomePrint, GnomePrintUI, librsvg and Atk 1.7. Rate Ruby-Gnome here.