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delovski · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb

gnome.org - GNOME 2.20 Release Notes

"GNOME 2.20 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-
platform desktop environment. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and
first class internationalization and accessibility support. Based on Free and
Open Source Software, GNOME provides all of the common tools computer
users expect of a modern computing environment, as well as a flexible and
powerful platform for software developers."

delovski · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb

Digg: GNOME Gets Real Drag n' Drop Support with XDS

"The latest version of GNOME, 2.20, was recently released. A surprising addition
was made just a few days before: the addition of XDS support. Now you can
finally drag and drop files from File Roller to Nautilus without trouble."

delovski · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb

developer.gnome.org - GNOME Human Interface Guidelines

"This document tells you how to create applications that look right, behave
properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole. It is written for
interface designers, graphic artists and software developers who will be cre-
ating software for the GNOME environment."

delovski · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb

arstechnica.com - Desktop deliverance: an overview of GNOME 2.20

"GNOME 2.20 was officially released last week after six months of development.
The new version includes strong incremental improvements that contribute
to a better user experience and provide more flexibility and integration
opportunities for third-party software developers."

delovski · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb

Gnome Forum: Nabble » Software » Gnome

"Nabble offers free forum hosting and mailing list archiving. The GNOME
project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive
and attractive desktop for end-users, users, and the GNOME development
platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate
into the rest of the desktop."

XNote · Kapetan Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 532

ars - One step forward: a review of GNOME 2.22

"Anjuta, an integrated development environment (IDE) that is primarily
intended for C and C++ programming, has been added to the GNOME
Developer Suite. It provides a number of useful features that simplify
the process of creating new GTK and GNOME applications including inte-
grated support for user interface design with Glade 3.
...
Additional details about the latest Anjuta release, check out this blog
entry by developer Johannes Schmid."

Ike · Kapetan Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3031 Location: Europe

http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-abyss/

delovski · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb

Slashdot - How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop

"Klint Finley discusses Miguel de Icaza's thoughts on how OS X killed Linux
on the desktop: 'de Icaza says the desktop wars were already lost to OS X
by the time the latest shakeups started happening. And he thinks the real
reason Linux lost is that developers started defecting to OS X because the
developers behind the toolkits used to build graphical Linux applications
didn’t do a good enough job ensuring backward compatibility between
different versions of their APIs.

"For many years, we broke people’s code," he says. "OS X did a much
better job of ensuring backward compatibility."' This, he says, led
developers to use OS X as a desktop for server programming. It didn't
help that development was 'shifting to the web,' with the need for native
applications on the decline."