The default file manager in the GNOME desktop environment is Nautilus. If you've been using GNOME for a while, then you're probably familiar with Nautilus' built in Nautilus Scripts function. The Scripts function is great, but there's an even better way to add functions to Nautilus; with Nautilus Actions.
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Desktops and their performance
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Phoronix has used its Test Suite to compare the memory and power consumption of different desktop environments. However, the results should be handled with care.
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Despite all the talk about the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop, somewhere in the last few years, free software passed a milestone without anyone noticing. At some point, after years of struggling to rival proprietary desktops, both GNOME and KDE have caught up in features and narrowed the gap in usability. We are now at a point where free software is often an innovator on the desktop.
Read more »The 7 Irritations of GNOME and KDE
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Bruce Byfield is already grumpy from the Olympics invasion of his hometown, and now KDE and GNOME are causing vexation. They both have many wonderful abilities, but some things leave users scratching their heads and wondering "why."
Read more »Magnatune sends check to GNOME Foundation thanks to Rhythmbox
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A long while ago, I pledged Magnatune to pay 10% of its sales due to Rhythmbox (a fantastic music player for Linux), back to the GNOME Foundation. Today, I wrote the check.
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KDE and GNOME: Seven Irritations in Each
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Ordinarily, I'm a tolerably contented desktop user, spending about three-quarters of my time in KDE and the rest in GNOME, with occasional forays into other desktops. But in the last two weeks, I've been noticing irritations in every interface I've used.
Read more »5 Amazing Gnome Shell Themes (And How To Install Themes In Gnome Shell)
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A look at the first ever Gnome Shell themes and how to install (or even create your own) a Gnome Shell theme.
Read more »Vine Linux 5.1 review
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Vine Linux is an APT-ified, RPM-based, multi-purpose distribution. Because of its Japanese heritage, very few English speaking users have taken a serious look at this distribution. This article provides the very first English language review of the latest stable edition.
Read more »"Task Pooper" could revolutionize GNOME desktop
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The GNOME community's design and usability experts gathered for a week-long hackfest hosted by Canonical in the UK to shape the next major iteration of the GNOME desktop environment.
Read more »Gnome 3 Will Be Amazing
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Today, we had a breakthrough; the boldest, baddest synthesis for a desktop we have ever hit upon. For a desktop redesign with a 6 hr genesis it is relatively concrete, its not handwavy, its not buzzword-y, its not taillight chasing. It is targeted at a whole mess of real pains (both little jabs and big aches you barely know are there), and it solves them in elegant,gorgeous, functional ways.
Read more »GNOME Shell 2.29.0 with new notification system
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The GNOME project has released version 2.29.0, a further preview of the new desktop shell, for testing
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GNOME Shell 2.29 Brings A Lot Of Improvements
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A few days back we reported on a new Mutter release, which is the window and compositing manager for GNOME 3.0, and now with the GNOME 2.29.91 beta release coming up on Wednesday there is also the release of another new GNOME 3.0 component. Perhaps the single biggest new component for the GNOME 3.x stack is the GNOME Shell and this is the package that just reached version 2.29.0.
Read more »Gnome Shell 2.29.0 Released [What's New And Screenshots Inside]
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Gnome Shell is the new core user interface for Gnome 3 which provides switching windows and applications but you've probably already heard of it by now so I'll skip the introduction.
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An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility
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After Sun Microsystems was bought by Oracle, the last one began to fire many ex-Sun's workers. There are two lead developers of ``GNOME Accessibility'' and ``Orca'' (screen reader for blind people) projects among this big quantity of fired people. One of them have written an open letter to Oracle to review their decision.
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Exaile 0.3.1 Beta Released, Features An Equalizer And A Revamped Tag Editor
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Exaile 0.3.1 beta (a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python) has been released today and it's a preview of the new 0.3.1 version but should still be pretty stable to use already! The new Exaile version finally adds a long awaited equalizer, but also includes a revamped and much more powerful tag editor (ExFaso):
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