Gnome Archive

Gnome-Summary brings you an interview with Alex Larsson, the maintainer of gnome-vfs & Nautilus, on what's currently going on with gnome-vfs and what we could expect in the future.

Last week, some developers disagreeing with the direction of the GNOME Project decided to create what appears to be the beginning of a fork of the project -- GoneME. *Updated*

A joined effort between Sun, Red Hat and others resulted to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.0 which has just been released. Look at the changes here.

Below are the latest set of tarballs for the GNOME 2.7 development branch. It has entered its API/ABI, Feature and Module freezes, with a modules decision to be finalised next week. The biggest change in this release is the new MIME system.

"Project GoneME is the first attempt to try moving the GNOME Desktop into a new direction. As a long years contributor and ex-GNOME Foundation member I got quite unhappy with the new direction that some core decision takers have chosen without further feedback with the community or their participants" he claims while in search for similar-thinking devs to join him. More here.

A new UI website just opened its doors. As part of it's opening, they've posted a Gnome 2.6 usability review that includes fairly detailed user experience surveys.

For those who think that GNOME's aesthetics are less than great, this article might get you to change your mind, especially if you're using mostly GTK-based applications.

Seth Nickell put together a PDF file on the Storage concept and he also commented on his blog on it.

It's been already a week after GnomeFiles.org went live (my, time flies when you work on something night and day) and we have the first statistics in: so far, there are more than 150 applications submitted, more than 3,800 downloads and about 250,000 web pages served. That last number is actually better than I expected, as it seems that Gnomefiles.org is already able to do 15,000 page views per day the last few days without any major linkage from other sites (it went up to 60,000 for the day when Slashdot linked on Sunday). The prizes will be handed out soon to the winning developers so if you haven't submitted your app yet, do it before the end of the week to become eligible.

Six months ago, I decided that the GNOME desktop was ready for exclusive use on my desktop computer. Having used GNOME daily since that time, I have come to appreciate the thought and attention to detail that makes GNOME so friendly and usable. I have written a brief article that describes my experience with GNOME and that provides a brief introduction to GNOME for those who have yet to try it out for themselves.

Two months ago, Gnome took its software repository offline in order to bolster internal security, and since then there has not been a focal point on the internet for GNOME software. We're happy to announce Gnomefiles.org, a resource for Gnome/GTK+ developers and users to post and find software. Read for more info and the prizes we offer to the first devs that will submit an app.

GNOME Development Release 2.7.2 has been released for testing.

Arvind Narayanan wrote an essay outlining three proposals for simplifying GNOME file management.

Ximian's Dave Camp posted a draft Gnome Roadmap for versions 2.8+. Issues up for discussion are Mozilla/Epiphany, incorportation of peer to peer filesharing, blogging, addition of more media widgets etc. Also, ULB Gnome 0.8.0 for SuSE & Dropline Gnome 2.6.1 for Slackware are out.