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Jeremy Allison joins GNOME Advisory Board
http://www.the-source.com/2010/03/jeremy-allison-joins-gnome-advisory-board/
Pretty penguin: five great themes for the GNOME desktop
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| The GNOME desktop environment and its
| underlying Gtk+ widget toolkitâwhich
| provide a user interface and a standard set
| of applications for Linuxâhave an elaborate
| theme system that enables users to
| customize the appearance of their desktop.
|
| GNOME has attracted a vibrant community of
| open source artists who are collaborating
| to produce aesthetically sophisticated
| visual styles for the desktop environment.
| Many custom GNOME themes are published in
| online galleries so that they can be
| downloaded and installed by regular end
| users. The most popular of these
| repositories is the GNOME-Look.org Web
| site, which has become the de facto
| standard home of downloadable GNOME theming
| content.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/pretty-penguin-five-great-themes-for-the-gnome-desktop.ars
Make Your Coworkerâs Day in Ubuntu
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| Leaving your coworkers a nice message is
| easy and can brighten up their dull
| afternoon. Weâre pretty sure that this
| method can only be used for good and not
| evil, but if you have any other suggestions
| of messages to leave, let us know in the
| comments!
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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13581/make-your-coworkers-day-in-ubuntu/
First stable version of GNOME Media Player Released; gains ad-hoc engine support
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| The first stable release of GNOME Media
| Player - formally GNOME VLC - is now
| available.
|
| This release sees the fresh-faced newcomer
| gain support for 3 engines (VLC, Xine and
| GStreamer) for playing media, with the
| option to easily switch ad-hoc between
| them.
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http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/first-stable-version-of-gnome-media.html
Interesting GNOME Census problems
http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/03/24/interesting-gnome-census-problems/
Open Source Fundraising Campaigns: The GNOME Ruler
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| GNOME is raising funds for a system
| administrator, and just yesterday a ruler
| has been added to the top of various GNOME
| websites to show people progress.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/03/24/open-source-fundraising-campaigns-the-gnome-ruler/
Arista - Multimedia Transcoder for GNOME
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| Arista is an easy-to-use multimedia
| transcoder for the GNOME desktop. It
| focuses on the goal of transcoding media,
| namely the devices you wish to play the
| media on. It is designed for use by people
| who are not familiar with audio and video
| encoding and want an easy way to get
| multimedia to their devices. It supports
| input from DVD and V4L devices as well as
| regular files.
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http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2010/03/arista-multimedia-transcoder-for-gnome.html
Five Things To Fix In Gnome Shell
http://www.workswithu.com/2010/03/23/five-things-to-fix-in-gnome-shell/
Testing the Gnome 2.30 Release Candidate
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| If Gnome developers are to be believed, the
| desktop of the future arrived last week
| when the release candidate for Gnome 2.30â
| which could become Gnome 3.0âwas made
| available. My CPU needed a workout, so I
| recently compiled the new desktop and gave
| it a run. Hereâs a look at the desktop
| environment thatâlike it or notâmay soon be
| coming to a computer near you.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/03/18/testing-the-gnome-3-release-candidate/
Mailing lists are parties. Or they should be.
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| Bottom line: Software canât save a mailing
| list full of people who actively dislike
| each other. Maybe Iâm crazy, though, but it
| seems like software that helped mailing
| lists function more like parties could
| really help mailing lists cope better with
| anti-social people.
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http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/03/17/lists-parties/
GNOME Shell 2.29.1 released
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| GNOME Shell provides core user interface
| functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like
| switching to windows and launching
| applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage
| of the capabilities of modern graphics
| hardware and introduces innovative user
| interface concepts to provide a visually
| attractive and easy to use experience.
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http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2010-March/msg00059.html
Build a lighter Gnome in Ubuntu
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| In light of the last post and this post
| from a day or two ago, I suppose itâs worth
| mentioning (or showing) that a simplified
| Gnome desktop is possible in Ubuntu too.
| But in showing it, I will probably be
| underscoring a few other issues that I have
| grazed in the past.
|
| [...]
|
| Beyond that itâs quite slender, and youâre
| in a good position to build upward. If you
| have a preference for certain parts of what
| Ubuntu delivers, but an extreme distate for
| anything else, I would recommend starting
| with gnome-core.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/build-a-lighter-gnome-in-ubuntu/
Recent:
GNOME and KDE to co-locate 2011 Desktop Summit
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| Following the success of last year's Gran
| Canaria Desktop Summit (GCDS), Joe "Zonker"
| Brockmeier, former Community Manager at
| Novell, has announced that the GNOME
| Foundation and KDE e.V. boards have decided
| to once again co-locate their flagship
| conferences, Akademy and GUADEC, in 2011. In
| addition to simply co-locating the events, as
| they did in 2009, GNOME Foundation board
| Member Vincent Untz says that he hopes that
| the projects can "actually plan a combined
| schedule in 2011 so that KDE and GNOME
| contributors have every opportunity to work
| with and learn from each other."
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/GNOME-and-KDE-to-co-locate-2011-Desktop-Summit-956667.html
Testing the Gnome 3 Release Candidate
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| Although thereâs no official word on when
| Gnome 3 will become the default desktop
| environment in Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth
| suggested last summer that the October 2010
| release, or Ubuntu 10.10, would be a likely
| target.
|
| Given my experience with the new Gnome, Iâm
| not convinced thatâs a good idea, unless a
| lot changes on Gnomeâs end between now and
| the fall. But Iâll save my criticism for
| another post. Below, Iâll focus on what
| Gnome 2.30/3 actually does, and how itâs so
| different from its predecessors.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/03/18/testing-the-gnome-3-release-candidate/
Mutter 2.29.1 Brings Dependence On Clutter 1.2
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| Mutter, the new window manager designed for
| GNOME 3.0 integration to replace Metacity 2,
| has experienced a new development release.
| Mutter reached version 2.29.0 last month and
| it integrated the most recent Metacity
| changes (up to v2.26), improved appearance of
| scaled down windows using mipmap emulation,
| new signals and properties, and many other
| changes. Metacity 2.29.1 that's been released
| today doesn't bring as many changes to the
| table.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA3NQ
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