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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. However, I would
| like to mention that this is still a VERY
| EARLY version of GNOME Shell and should not
| be taken of indicative of the final user
| interface or performance.
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http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/gnome-shell-2290-released-whats-new-and.html
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. GNOME 2.29.0 brings a lot of
| improvements.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODAwNw
Painless accessibility tips for GNOME designers and developers
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| This morning at the GNOME 3 UX Hackfest in
| London, Willie Walker gave us some tips for
| âpainlessâ accessibility.
|
| [...]
|
| Calum asked Willie a really good question â
| how do assistive technologies handle
| dynamic UI elements? As Willie explained,
| we handle it okay but we could do better.
| Some common dynamic UI elements are
| progress bars, or monitoring graphs (eg the
| CPU usage monitor), or checkboxes that
| disable based on selections elsewhere on
| the screen. For the latter case â
| dynamically-disabled elements â when they
| are disabled, they are not accessible until
| the selections on the screen enable it
| again, so this case is handled okay. For
| progress bars and graphics, one thing we
| can do is announce every time it changes,
| or we can put some time constraints in
| there for announcement â announce every 3-5
| seconds, for example. For progress bars in
| particular, we have a progress bar setting
| for orca: announce updates (yes or no.)
| This enables orca to announce every so many
| seconds the current status of the progress
| bar. For example, for a download progress
| bar: â10 percent. 25 percent. 73 percent.â
| We could handle these better, though.
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http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/painless-accessibility-tips-for-gnome-designers-and-developers/
Gloobus Provides Snappy, Sleek File Previews in Linux
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| Ubuntu and other GNOME-based Linux
| distributions have their own built-in file
| preview tool, sure. But that previewer
| doesn't act on every file type, leaving you
| sometimes regretting a double-click as GIMP
| or another heavy tool loads up with your
| file. And thumbnail icon previews aren't
| available for every file you can create or
| download. Gloobus aims to provide universal
| file previews inside its dark, stylish
| interface.
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http://lifehacker.com/5477997/gloobus-provides-snappy-sleek-file-previews-in-linux
Recent:
Gnome Shell - One desktop to bind them all
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| Gnome Shell is the future window manager for
| UNIX-like operating systems running the Gnome
| desktop environment. It is slated to be part
| of the Gnome 3.0, which will probably be
| released sometime next year. However, this
| does not mean you cannot try Gnome Shell now
| and get the first impression of what it ought
| to be.
|
| [...]
|
| Gnome Shell is a handsome beast, there's no
| disputing that. In fact, I don't think anyone
| will argue the good looks, the blend of
| colors, the smooth integrations. Even old
| times like me have to cede that.
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http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-shell.html
New Preview Releases Of Mutter, GNOME Shell
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| While carrying the "2.28" tag, these releases of
| Mutter and GNOME Shell are only to serve as previews
| with their code still undergoing very active
| development. The stable releases will not come until
| GNOME 3.0, which will come next March.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU4OA
First impressions of gnome-shell
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| Iâm quite conservative with my desktop usually, I like
| the default Ubuntu configuration and know it well. That
| said Iâm enjoying using gnome-shell and intend to use it
| for a while at least. Iâm looking forward to it
| evolving, including new concepts and growing more
| popular. The negatives Iâve noticed I think are mostly
| down to lack of time. Iâm not sure if itâs going to be
| âreadyâ for the targeted date of next March and am not
| sure that it should be â thereâs plenty more to
| prototype.
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http://www.deansas.org/blog/2009/09/24/first-impressions-of-gnome-shell/
A New Development Release Of GNOME Shell
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| GNOME 3.0 will not be rolling out until the first half of 2010, but work is
| already underway on this major GNOME update that is the first to bring some
| radical changes in a long time. One of the major components of GNOME 3.0 is
| the GNOME Shell. The GNOME Shell will begin handling some of the
| responsibilities that previously was done by the window manager and GNOME
| Panel in GNOME 2.xx while offering a modern graphics experience.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzQ5Mg
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