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Testing the Gnome 3 Release Candidate

http://www.workswithu.com

If Gnome developers are to be believed, the desktop of the future arrived last week when the release candidate for Gnome 3 was made available.  My CPU needed a workout, so I recently compiled the new desktop and gave it a run.  Here's a look at the desktop environment that - like it or not - may soon be coming to a computer near you.

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Deconstructing Nautilus and rebuilding it better

http://www.design-by-izo.com

There may well be some of you out there who are currently thinking, “It’s not that bad…” to which my response is: in terms of user interface, there are much better file managers available for GNOME than GNOME’s default file manager (two, off the top of my head: Thunar, default for the Xfce Desktop Environment and PCMan File Manager, or PCManFM).

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Created by lando 12 years 10 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 9 weeks ago
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Expand The GNOME File Manager With Nautilus Actions

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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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Created by Linerd 12 years 10 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 10 weeks ago
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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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Created by credativ 12 years 11 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 11 weeks ago
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GNOME and KDE: Seven Attractions in Each

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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.

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Created by zarkovic 12 years 11 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 11 weeks ago
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The 7 Irritations of GNOME and KDE

http://www.linuxplanet.com

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."

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Magnatune sends check to GNOME Foundation thanks to Rhythmbox

http://blogs.magnatune.com

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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Created by noodly appendage 12 years 11 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 11 weeks ago
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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.

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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.

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Created by TMNGoat 12 years 12 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 12 weeks ago
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Vine Linux 5.1 review

http://linuxbsdos.com

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.

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"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.

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Gnome 3 Will Be Amazing

http://blogs.gnome.org

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.

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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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Created by a known eMouse 12 years 13 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 12 weeks ago
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GNOME Shell 2.29 Brings A Lot Of Improvements

http://www.phoronix.com

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.

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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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Created by nilarimogard 12 years 13 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 13 weeks ago
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