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GNOME needs to get its act together
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| To understand the significance of these links,
| one must go back to 1997 when GNOME was set up
| by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero.
| The only rationale that they had for setting
| up a project to create a second desktop
| environment for a small number of users - KDE
| was a thriving desktop by then but it used a
| non-free library for development - was that it
| would be totally free.
|
| GNOME was set up under the aegis of the GNU
| Project. The name says it all: the GNU Network
| Object Model Environment.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30289/1090/
Theming GNOME
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| I get a lot of questions as to how to make the
| GNOME desktop look better. This question can
| be approached from numerous angles: Compiz,
| Emerald, Metacity, Window borders, etc. I have
| covered Compiz here on Ghacks (see Compiz on
| Ghacks) as well as Emerald (see Emerald on
| Ghacks). But I have yet to cover the basic
| theming of the GNOME desktop. As of this
| tutorial, that will all change.
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http://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/30/theming-gnome/
Recent:
GNOME 2.29.4 released
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| And here comes 2.29.4, just in time for the
| holiday season. It's a few hours late, but
| there were several build issues this time.
| But if you take all the right tarballs, this
| should now be okay :-) And you'll enjoy some
| cool stuff, like an updated nautilus with its
| changed focus (see discussion on nautilus-
| list), or various modules like gnome-control-
| center with tons of bug fixes. You can also
| take a look at gnome-keyring which has
| changed quite a bit internally... There are
| definitely many changes in there, so it's a
| good time to do some deep testing!
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http://lwn.net/Articles/367999/
GNOME and the GNU Project
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| Do you remember the last controversy
| around Richard Stallman and Mono? Well,
| surprise surprise: the players are same!
| Imagine that! Quite the coincidence.
|
| It just so happens that the person calling
| for the vote is the same person that
| created the whole âI am not afraid of
| people writing codeâ slur-meme.
|
| It just so happens that the person
| seconding the call for the vote is the
| same person that crafted âopen lettersâ,
| published private correspondance and
| called for Stallman to be banned from
| speaking at future conferences.
|
| (The irony of calling for someone to be
| banned from speaking while later
| pretending outrage at that same person for
| calling into question how appropriate some
| topics are is quite delicious.)
|
| Again, read the posts to the mailing list
| and on the blogs. Stallman is calm and
| composed while being called a âfascistic
| extremistâ, and subjected to push polling.
| His critics as usual are condescending,
| twist his words, and resort to childish
| rhetoric at every opportunity.
|
| The beauty of the mailing list is that it
| is all laid out there for anyone to see.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/12/gnome-and-the-gnu-project/
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