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Photos: Ubuntu unleashes the Karmic Koala
Photo The Karmic Koala desktop makes use of Gnome 2.28 and sports an updated Human theme. Want to know how Ubuntu 9.10 will look once installed? silicon.com sister site ZDNet Australia takes you through the install. [29 Oct 2009]
Nokia lets Maemo developers in on the Qt
News Maemo is currently based largely on Gnome, a rival environment, which uses GTK+. The Gnome community is being invited to work with the Maemo community to get Gnome applications working... [06 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.06.09
Round-Up That's right: if you ever wanted to explore the Swedish tradition of thieving a gnome, taking it on holiday and sending postcards back to the bereft gnome owner ostensibly from the missing garden... [26 Jun 2009]
Photos: The future of mobile life - in the lab
Photo This iPhone app - called CamGnomes - toys with the Swedish tradition of playing pranks on people by stealing garden gnomes and sending postcards back to the owner claiming to be from the travelling gnome. [26 Jun 2009]
Sun launches second version of OpenSolaris
News In addition, the new OpenSolaris release includes a graphical snapshotting interface that is integrated into Nautilus, the Gnome file manager. Version 2.24 of the Gnome desktop is included with... [08 Dec 2008]
Results From Software Engineering Research Into Open Source Development Projects Using Public Data
White Paper The research methodology employed relies on public data retrieved from the CVS-repository of the GNOME project and relevant discussion groups. This paper presents first results from research into open source projects... [03 Dec 2008]
Firefox Browser Running on Top of GTK - DFB
White Paper GTK+ has been constantly evolving in the gnome environment, and the latest to be added is GTK+ porting on Direct Frame Buffer (DFB). So, to make use of this, the existing GTK based gnome applications... [28 Nov 2008]
Photos: A first look at Canonical's Intrepid Ibex
Photo Ubuntu comes with a variety of applications, including OpenOffice.org (though not yet new version 3.0) and Gnome's Evolution software for email and calendars. Canonical recently released Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex. [11 Nov 2008]
Canonical hires Ubuntu makeover team
News The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in user experience and interaction to lead Canonical's work on usability and to contribute to other free and open-source desktop-environment projects, including... [12 Sep 2008]
Intel snaps up mobile Linux developers
News Describing itself as "kind of like the 'Millenium Falcon' of Floss, or worst case, an Ewok village", OpenedHand employs numerous core Gnome developers, and is a member of the Gnome advisory board. Intel... [01 Sep 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News Shuttleworth wrote that, while Ubuntu had suffered from as many reported software flaws as OpenOffice, Mozilla, Gnome and KDE combined, most of the bugs had been found in the upstream source code. The founder of the... [01 Jul 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News However, neither LiMo nor Maemo use Qt or KDE, opting instead for the GTK+ toolkit and a Gnome-based desktop environment. He said he felt Nokia had "a huge responsibility from a desktop and user interface point of view... [12 Jun 2008]
Nokia to buy Trolltech and keep it on the Qt
News Qt is used to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and is the main GUI toolkit for the KDE Linux project, one of the two main desktop environments for the open-source operating system - the other being Gnome. [28 Jan 2008]
Ubuntu Hacks: Switch to a Lighter Window Manager
White Paper The most popular of these desktop environments are GNOME and KDE. Ubuntu defaults to GNOME as its desktop environment but also offers a Kubuntu alternative that automatically defaults to KDE instead. If... [24 Oct 2007]
Intel at work on Linux mini-tablet
News MID tablets will run a simplified "finger-friendly" user interface optimised for the small screens, based on the Gnome desktop but with an Intel-developed "master user interface" layer to serve as an equivalent to the... [16 Apr 2007]
