The GNOME foundation has announced the appointment of Karen Sandler as the new executive director for the organization. Sandler comes to GNOME from the Software Freedom Law Center where she served as a general counsel. "Sandler’s dedication to software freedom, her non-profits experience and her involvement in a wide range of free and open source software communities distinguish her as the logical choice for GNOME. 'I’m very excited that Karen is joining the GNOME Foundation as Executive Director!', says Stormy Peters, former Executive Director who has recently joined the GNOME Board as a new Director, 'Karen brings a wealth of experience in free software projects and nonprofits as well as a passion for free software. That experience will be invaluable as GNOME continues to expand its reach with GNOME 3.0 and GNOME technologies.'" Look for an interview with Sandler about her new role later today here at LWN.
Selasa, 05 Juli 2011
Kamis, 02 Juni 2011
Transforming GNOME Into A Linux-Only Project?
One of the mailing list messages making the rounds on the Internet today is concerning the GNOME project and whether they should no longer concern themselves with supporting non-Linux operating systems...
Selasa, 31 Mei 2011
What's Coming Up For GNOME 3.2?
Last week marked the end of the feature proposal for GNOME 3.2, for the first major update to the GNOME3 desktop. The GNOME 3.2 release schedule has the final release set for the end of September. In this article is a list of some of the features that were brought up for GNOME 3.2...
Senin, 30 Mei 2011
Fedora 15 Released - Featuring Virgin Pure GNOME 3
GNOME 3 including the new GNOME 3 shellKDE 4.6 with the improved Plasma workspace, enhanced core applications, and greater memory efficiency.XFCE 4.8 with a new panel, Thunar enhancements and more.Virtualization improvements including Spice support in virt-manager and support for Xen hosts.Better compression of live images allowing more applications to be provided on a CD.System and session management via systemd, providing more consistent configuration and improved boot performance. Running Fedora 15 on your machine demands modest requirements. Your machine should have a min of 386 MB RAM (512 MB - 1 GB preferred). 400 MHz Pentium Pro or better processor, and 10 GB of hard disk space for storage.
Fedora also comes with comprehensive documentation on every aspect of the OS that the end user might encounter which is a big plus.
There are several flavors of Fedora 15. And you can download them from Fedoraproject.org.
Rabu, 25 Mei 2011
GNOME 3 Won't Have Minimize And Maximize Buttons
Of course, that doesn't mean you can't minimize or maximize your applications' window in GNOME 3.
If you want the same functionality as what minimize does, then you should group your applications in different Workspaces or use the Activities overview. And if you need to Maximize your applications, you can double-click on the title bar of the application or you can use the drag-to-snap functionality.
GNOME 3.0 Has Been Officially Released
GNOME 3.0 desktop is designed in such a way that it can run on a variety of modern computing devices including PCs, tablets, cell phones, and what not. The defining technology for GNOME 3.0 user experience is the GNOME Shell.
GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces a unique user interface that makes computing simple for the lay person.
For example, try moving your mouse pointer to the top left corner of your screen and GNOME Shell puts you into the Activities Overview. The Activities Overview helps you open new applications and also switch between open windows.
In fact, you can easily open any application or manage open app windows from within GNOME 3.0 with no more than two clicks of your mouse. In many cases, a single click of your mouse would suffice.
GNOME 3.0 desktop has an integrated search facility some what similar in functionality to Gnome Do that allows you to launch applications, switch windows, and open recent documents and settings. Why, you can even search Wikipedia and Google from within GNOME 3.0 Activities view.
Integrated Calendar & Task Scheduler
Accessibility settings at your finger tips
The features mentioned above merely scratch the surface of what GNOME 3.0 has to offer. For the full set of features read the GNOME 3.0 release notes.
After trying out a GNOME 3 Live CD, I feel the GNOME team has indeed struck gold. The three years' of planning and development culminating in the GNOME 3 release lives up to its promises of providing a distraction free, productive computing experience to the end user.
You can download Live CDs of GNOME 3 from its website. OpenSUSE and Fedora images have been provided.
Rabu, 27 April 2011
How To Create A Screencast In GNOME 3
You can start/stop recording your GNOME 3 Desktop by pressing the Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R key combination.
The first time when you press this key combination, GNOME 3 will start recording your Desktop and any movements that happen on it. A red circle is displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen when the recording is in progress. Pressing the same key combination a second time will stop the recording.
After the recording is finished, a file named 'shell-%d%u-%c.webm' is saved in the home directory. In the filename, %d is the date, %u is a string that makes the filename unique, and %c is a counter that is incremented each time a recording is made within a single gnome-shell session. The recording is saved in the WebM format.
WebM is an open media file format designed for the web. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska media container.