Gnome Archive

In a release that marks the fruit of six months of hard work from hackers, maintainers, translators, testers, usability team and the accessibility team, GNOME 2.6.0 continues the high standards in the areas of usability, accessibility and internationalisation with this release.

InternetNews and ArsTechnica posted two preview articles regarding the pending release of Gnome 2.6.

"Mr Shrap" has written an interesting write-up on a (still) touchy topic: the button order adopted in Gnome 2 and why he doesn't like it.

GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform Release Candidate 1 (2.5.92) is now available.

Download the second beta of Gnome 2.6, while you can read the announcement and changelog here.

Sayamindu Dasgupta put up a preview (mirror) of the upcoming Gnome 2.5.

"Microsoft's XAML has a lot of people worried. Its advantage is to bring the ease of web page authoring and scripting into writing .NET application user interfaces. This makes immense sense. We have a desperate need for decent user interfaces, and the place where a large body of UI designers and programmers live and work at the moment is in web pages." Read the opinion of Gnome's Edd Dumbill and a reply from Miguel deIcaza.

The latest GNOME Development Release is ready for testing. It is available for immediate download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors.

Steven Garrity writes about his experiences with Linux and Gnome: "I've noticed a few little user interface niceties worth sharing", he says.

Gnome 2.4.2 is a new point release from the stable series of the 2.4.x tree. Download, release notes.

Paul writes: "I've written an article, containing _mockups_ of an idea I've had for the Gnome desktop. It's called Scoop, and it's an idea for a container widget, to act as a "System Sidebar" on a users desktop. You can see the writeup here." Update: Paul writes: "I've updated the article with more ideas, and added a link to my Gnome AutoManager proposal, which can be seen here."

Here is another scheduled release of the GNOME Platform Bindings, which provide a GNOME development platform for programming languages other than C, in the style of those languages.

The GNOME Development Release 2.5.1: "Hey, at least I'm housebroken", is ready for testing. It is available for immediate download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors.

A few weeks ago we published an article titled "The Great Mac OS X 10.4 Wish List", detailing a few personal wishes for the next version of OSX. Later I learned that quite a few Apple engineers read the article and so it felt good that the time spent writing the article was not just a voice in the void. A reader emailed me a few days ago asking me to do the same for other OSes and DEs. So here is my personal wish-list for a future version of Gnome. Please tell us about your own Gnome wish list in the comment section provided.