The GNOME Project announced a few minuntes ago, January 26th, the immediate availability for testing of the fourth development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings various fixes and improvements. With a delay of one week, the GNOME 3.3.4 desktop environment is ready for testing and it brings updates to main components, [...]

Cinnamon, the fork of the GNOME 3.x Shell by Linux Mint developers to make it more like the GNOME2 desktop, is now at version 1.2. This latest stable, major release does bring some tasty changes. The first major feature of Cinnamon 1.2 are new desktop effects. “Cinnamon 1.2 is a first step towards reintroducing desktop [...]

A recently launched web site is collecting extensions for the GNOME 3 interface. These extensions can be used to individually tailor the shell of the often criticised desktop environment and, for example, give it a GNOME 2 feel. Since its introduction, GNOME 3 has received a fair amount of criticism, as not everyone likes its [...]

For those that don’t remember, the GNOME project had a goal of a 10% global desktop share by 2010, this was their “10×10″ goal. Two years later, they’re still a long way off. You can read about the original GNOME 10×10 goal in this Phoronix news posting. Now two years later they still aren’t close [...]

GNOME 3.3.3 Development Release =============================== Right on time for your end-of-the-year celebrations, here comes the third development release of the 3.3 development cycle. Have fun discovering the latest developments, and see you next year! To compile GNOME 3.3.3, you can the jhbuild [1] modulesets [2] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release): [...]

Gnome 3 has finally won some ‘praises’ from Linus Torvalds. The father of Linux earlier called Gnome 3 a holy mess and asked for someone to fork it. A fork of Gnome 2 was created, called MATE. Yesterday Gnome project announced a site called Gnome Extensions which makes it easier to find and install extensions. [...]

We’re happy to announce that extensions.gnome.org is now in public alpha testing at: https://extensions.gnome.org If you have GNOME Shell 3.2 on your system, you should be able to install extensions from the website via your browser. This uses the “GNOME Shell Integration” browser plugin which is likely already installed on your system if you have [...]

GNOME 3.3.2 Development Release=========================== Here comes the second development release of the 3.3development cycle. This time with some new exciting features (Hello boxes!), and some cleanup work; no more gconf in mutter/metacity/gnome-shell. So go ahead and please download, compile and test this release! To compile GNOME 3.3.2, you can the jhbuild [1] modulesets [2] (whichuse [...]

GNOME 3.2.2 stable release ================= Third update to GNOME 3.2, second of the stable release. To compile GNOME 3.2.2 use jhbuild [1] and the modulesets files used at this release [2]. If you want to know what is new on this release, you can check the release notes of those modules: core – http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/core/3.2/3.2.2/NEWS apps [...]

GNOME 3.3.1 Development Release =========================== It never stops ! Here comes the first development release of the 3.3 development cycle. We are off to a slow start, with most features still on the drawing board or in early development. Expect things to become more exciting in the next development release. But for now, we want [...]

Last week the 2011 GNOME User Survey began, which is an independent survey that was devised by members of the GNOME community to collect feedback on their desktop platform. With the GNOME Foundation not interested in hosting the survey, these survey creators came to Phoronix to host the survey. Some of the initial GNOME comments [...]

The first update to GNOME 3.2 series is now available. As usual it provides bug fixes, translations updates and tiny improvements, in order to make our stable release even more stable and useful. Of course these improvements are kindly provided by our vibrant GNOME community members and contributors: so, thanks to our wonderful GNOME people. [...]

The 2011 GNOME User Survey, an end-user survey that was assembled by independent GNOME users and hosted on Phoronix, began less than 24 hours ago and we’re already approaching 2,000 submissions. There’s still one month to go, and from these submission so far when simply dumping the comments it amounts to about 148 pages. However, [...]

Gnome 3.2 has been released. This time around, the developers have focused on a large number of small improvements rather than big, headline features. That said, there are a couple of interesting new additions in the areas of web integration and personal data management. Adhering to a six month release schedule, this is the first [...]

The first major revision of GNOME 3 offers tighter integration of online services into the desktop environment. The development team has also introduced many minor enhancements and resolved a number of irritating idiosyncrasies. The GNOME Project has released GNOME 3.2, the first major revision of the third generation of GNOME which first saw the light [...]

GNOME 3.2 Released ==================== Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 3.2, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. With this timely release, we are continuing our very successful, reliable six month release cycle into the GNOME 3 era. GNOME 3.2 is the first major [...]

While not replacing the Nautilus file manager or playing a major role within the soon-to-be-released GNOME 3.2, there is a new GNOME file manager available. This new GNOME file manager just had its first official release and it’s being called the Emperor file manager. The file manager is inspired by Midnight Commander while having a [...]