GNOME News

So I have been using the GNOME shell for quite some time now, and I guess like any desktop experience it has its ups and downs, but at least I think I reached a stage where my remaining quibbles with the GNOME Shell is related to how it works as opposed to irritations caused by me being used to something else.

Florence is a scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when you don't need it.

The polls are closed and the official results are in. You can view the detailed results here , but I'll include a list of winners at the end of this post for convenience.

I think after so long without posting anything it is time to put some of the cool stuff we were doing lately.

"Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL.

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, such as PostScript, PDF, single page and multi-page TIFF, DVI, DjVu, and others.

Admittedly, Linux is a little talked-about subject on LockerGnome, but we admire all operating systems and try to cover them as best as we can.

Following its launch in 2006, Linux Mint spent a long time in the number two position on DistroWatch 's page-hit rankings, standing behind only the Ubuntu Linux distribution on which it's based.

The openSUSE artwork team has dream and needs your help. A new initiative seeks to collect information on how users customize and use their desktops.

Yawf is simple tool for creating WBFS files from Wii ISO images. It is just a front-end for the Wiimms ISO Tools and features Gnome desktop integration and a focus on usability.

Can a back to the past Linux desktop win more fans than GNOME 3.x, KDE 4.x, or Ubuntu's Unity or HUD? I think so.

I've provided links to the site of each application. However, you can usually find these in your Linux distro's software library application.

"A popular open source distribution of the Linux operating system that provides several desktop environment options for users dissatisfied with GNOME 3 or for users looking for a desktop environment more similar to the task-oriented GNOME 2 than the more application-oriented GNOME 3. Linux Mint users can select the GNOME 3 environment with the ... (more)

Cainteoir Text-to-Speech is a GNOME/GTK+ GUI for the Cainteoir Text-to-Speech Engine.

Are you fed up with Microsoft Windows and ready to give Linux a try? Here's how to get started.

Members of the KDE Plasma Active community announced an open source tablet platform that runs the mobile-oriented version of KDE's Plasma UI layer on a MeeGo Linux-based "Mer" operating system.

It supports multiple mailboxes, pop3, apop, imap4, mh, qmail and mailfile, SSL and certificates, GNOME with integration to the panel, GTK standalone, automatic detection of mailbox format, mail header and content display, PNG animation, HIG 2.0 compliance, and spam filtering.

GhostBSD 2.5 was released a few days ago and the headline on ghostbsd.com reads "Now with an Easy and Secure Graphic Installer." GhostBSD is obviously a free BSD , but it aims to be a user-friendly free BSD and to improve the GNOME experience on FreeBSD.

The KDE community announced version 4.8 of its desktop environment and software bundle for Linux, featuring improved, adaptive power management and new windowing functions.

Toorox 01.2012 GNOME was released on January 20. Toorox is a Gentoo-based binary distribution that installs additional software and updates from source.