Evangelising the Metaverse since 2001
|
|
|
Gnome 3.0 desktop tips up
OPEN SOURCERERS at the Gnome Desktop Project have released Gnome 3.0.
After three years of tinkering away, the Gnome team has finally released the biggest upgrade to the Gnome desktop in nine years, which is available for download now.
The project hasn't just given Gnome 3.0 a cosmetic makeover. It has created an entirely new Gnome shell that offers an overhauled desktop experience and has a new application programming interface (API) under the bonnet.
"We've taken a pretty different approach in the GNOME 3 design that focuses on the desired experience and lets the interface design follow from that," wrote Gnome shell designer Jon McCann.
The Gnome team said the new graphical user inteface (GUI) is more task oriented, so it should minimise distraction by notifications and provides extra workspace and background windows. Punters will get integrated messaging and improved windows grouping, making it easier to navigate desktop software applications. It has also given the Gnome file manager, Nautilus, an update with additional icons on the sidebar to make filing more robust.
The new API adds tweaked search, user messaging, system settings, and streamlined libraries. The Gnome graphical toolkit also uses Xinput2 advanced input device handling to support multi-touch for future iterations.
Gnome 3.0 is also backwards compatible with Gnome 2.X apps and the team said it developed the desktop from the ground up with Javascript to make sure the user interface is optimised for next generation users.
Gnome is a highly capable, well integrated, heavyweight desktop GUI that is primarily used by some of the major Linux distributions. µ
Tags: Software
Share this:
Share
Oh good god I hope not! The OSX GUI is a triumph of minimalist design over functionality. Even the most simple thing like finding the size of several files together, or searching a particular folder tree for a particular file involves clicks, 3 keys pressed simultaneously and an incantation chanted in the direction of NW USA.
Even windows 95 has more functionality than the OSX desktop.
I heard that it didn't fix the icons that keep changing place inside the toolbar when you change the screen resolution.
The biggest bug of Gnome that was introduced at its very birth still lingers there, so I wonder how this is a complete rewrite.
Nevertheless, it is by far the best Linux desktop GUI.
This new version is more akin to the DOS menuing programs from the past. It isn't really a desktop in any sense of the word. You select an icon rather than a text based menu entry.
I've played with it some via a live CD and though it is pretty fast it isn't worth it. It and Unity both are essentially junk as far as desktop managers go. They are trying to simplify without adding any real functionality. I see a prettier set of icons and a snappier bit of graphics but it lacks almost all things "desktop".
Whatever Gnome 3 is it will take a hell of a lot to sway me from KDE 4.6.
I'll give it a try but KDE imo is where it's at as far as useability and functionality is concerned on the desktop.
Now all Linux needs is driver work from AMD
FFS AMD WHERE ARE THE AWESOME LINUX DRIVERS!
Which is a good thing !