For GNOME fans out there that love the UI polish but are less than happy about the lack of tabbed browser in the file manager and sometimes obsessive use of the “spatial” paradigm, rejoice! It looks like GNOME developer Christian Neumair has been working on adding tabbed browsing to Nautilus (the GNOME file manager); which ended [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 13, 2007
Andrea Cimitan, GNOME theme designer and author of the Murrine GTK theme engine, has implement transparent widget support to GTK, allowing for Vista-like transparencies for windows, buttons, etc. Ars explains that the implementation was done by adding RGBA maps to the theme engine and Andrea asserts that similar support for transparency can be added to other [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 1, 2006
FootNotes is asking for screenshots of your 2.15.x or 2.16 beta desktop to be included in the new GNOME 2.16 release notes showing off some of the new features. You can make your submissions here, but you can check out the submissions people have already posted here. One that really struck my fancy was the “Ubuntu [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 28, 2006
I’ve been trying to dig up more detailed information about both Ubuntu EdgyEft (upcomming 6.10 Ubuntu release in October) and the GNOME 2.16 release that will be included with it. Most importantly I’ve been looking at the GNOME 2.16 information and have been getting sneak peaks at it by running the nightly EdgyEft LiveCDs to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 16, 2006
I was hunting around the web looking for a LiveCD that would let me try out the new Gnome 2.16 build, and eventually found the Ubuntu daily LiveCD builds. According to the manifest these builds are sporting the 2.15.90 build of Gnome 2.16, which sounds late enough to get a good idea of how it [...]
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