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Tag Archives: gnome
GNOME’s Revamped ‘Web’ Browser Is Minimal, Mighty
GNOME’s work on a revamped and repurposed ‘Epiphany’ web browser – which seeks to make the browser a core part of the GNOME experience – is coming along nicely.
The redesign of Epiphany, which is relabelled ‘Web’ in the app itself, seeks to to offer GNOME users a ‘simple, clean, beautiful view of the [internet].’
[How to] Make Ubuntu 11.10 Look and Feel Like GNOME 2
Longing for the look and feel of the classic GNOME desktop in Ubuntu 11.10? Well it’s easier to achieve than you might think.
Peek on in for a guide to aping the look of old school GNOME in new school GNOME.
Help Bring GNOME Games Up to Scratch
The fifteen games maintained by the GNOME Games project are in need of help.
With the rest of the GNOME desktop evolving around them the games developers ‘have struggled to keep up with the latest GNOME technology’.
GNOME Declares War on Minor Bugs With ‘Every Detail Matters’ Project
GNOME’s Allan Day has announced the launch of a new development project aimed at fixing ‘the small bugs [in GNOME] that ..undermine the overall experience.’
New GNOME App Designs Hint at a Bright Future for Linux
GNOME Designer Allan Day has shown off various updated designs for potential future GNOME applications.
Precisely What Version of GNOME Will Ship in Ubuntu 12.04?
What version of GNOME will ship in Ubuntu 12.04? That was the topic of discussion at one of today’s Ubuntu Developer Summit sessions.
Linux.conf.au 2012 Early Bird Registrations Open, First Keynote Speaker Announced
It’s that time of year again. It didn’t feel like long since I was reporting on Linux Conference Australia 2011 way back in January this year, where we interviewed the founder of Linux Linus Torvalds, an early Canonical employee and GNOME release manager Jeff Waugh, and covered everything from Linux-powered robots to liveblogging Google’s Vice President Vint Cerf’s opening keynote.
Linux.conf.au is back again next year, hosted in Ballarat (just outside Melbourne, Australia) and once again at least one representative from OMG! Ubuntu! will make the trip to report on a weeks’ worth of exciting Linux news, showcasing and project launches.
Make the jump for more information, and detail on the first keynote speaker – GNOME’s Executive Director Karen Sandler.
The GNOME 2 Fork ‘Mate’
Whether it’s Unity in Ubuntu, GNOME Shell in Fedora, or the number 4 suffixing KDE, there are some users who don’t welcome change with open arms.
For those people not united behind Unity, remain unsure about GNOME Shell, and couldn’t care less about KDE listen up: the GNOME 2 desktop has been forked.
Gnome Screencasts Episode 6 – How To Make a Web Browser
The sixth instalment of wannabe-developer orientated web series ‘Gnome Screencasts’ is now online.
And this time it’s a web browser in the making…
GNOME Screencasts Episode 3: ‘Creating a Nifty Calculator’
The third episode in Daniel Siegel‘s ‘GNOME Screencast’ series, which aims to introduce new developers to the GNOME platform, is now online and ready to view.
Gnome Screencasts Episode 2: How To Make A Photo App
The latest instalment of Daniel Siegel’s ‘GNOME Screencasts’ series, which aims to introduce new developers to the GNOME platform, is now online.
GNOME Screencasts Episode 1: The Basics
Picking up where the great gtk+ kick-start tutorial by Alberto Ruiz ended Daniel Siegel decided to introduce a new way of teaching new comers how to develop your own GNOME apps. His new initiative will introduce screencasts that will teach you basics of the GNOME platform and language bindings such as python, JS, C, Vala, etc…
PiTiVi video editor update adds over 100 video effects, various interface tweaks
A new release of GNOME video editor ‘PiTiVi’ has been made available and sees the oft-cited “basic video editor” gain some impressive new audio and video effects, as well as interface improvements and bug fixes.
Systemd in GNOME, PackageKit and what GNOME as an OS really means
A recent proposal be PulseAudio and systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering to add systemd raised concerns that GNOME might drop support for non-Linux platforms.
This isn’t the aim; and here’s why.
From Ubuntu to Fedora – Landing on foreign soil (the good, the bad and the ugly)
Recently I had to make a choice as to whether I wanted to stay with Ubuntu Unity or move to GNOME 3 and hence another distribution. I chose to move to Fedora because my work requires it, luckily though this has given me a new perspective as I have been a long time Ubuntu user.