Gnome

GNU Network Object Model Environment abbrevated as Gnome which is a part of GNU Project, is an desktop enviroment, graphical user interface that runs on top of Operating System. It's intended to make a Linux operating system easy to use for non-programmers and generally corresponds to the Windows desktop interface and its most common set of applications.

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What should be the colours of Gnome-Terminal?

Written on March 8th, 2010 at 05:51 am by shredder12

While clearing out the big pile of emails today, I came across this huge discussion on ubuntu-dev -discuss list about the colours of gnome-terminal. Honestly, I never thought this could be a point of discussion at all , but I was wrong. This article is just a brief summary of that discussion. This might not look of any use but its always good(and a little fun) to know other's opinion about such issues.

Gnome Nanny, a Parental Control System for Linux

Written on February 15th, 2010 at 04:09 am by shredder12

I am not in favour of monitored or filtered Internet at all. I love Internet the way it is and I hate if someone tries to censor it. But we have to admit that there is a lot of bad stuff on the Internet that you definitely don't want little kids to come across. Gnome Nanny is a parental control system build for this purpose. Not just the websites, it can also be used to monitor and control the time spent on web or chatting.

Enable Alt-Shift-Tab shortcut in Ubuntu

Written on January 29th, 2010 at 13:32 pm by shredder12

While working I have a lot of windows open in each of my workspaces. Switching through them can be done easily using the usual <Alt>Tab shortcut but backward switching is disabled by default in Ubuntu. And its pretty hard to work with a lot of windows if you only have one-sided switching. In this tip I will tell you how to tweak your gnome settings to enable this feature.

Tomboy 1.1.1 released

Written on January 28th, 2010 at 00:43 am by shredder12

All the Tomboy fans out there, you would be pleased to know that Tomboy 1.1.1 is out now. Its the second development release on its way to Tomboy 1.2. This new release comes with a lot of improvements and new features. From rich html support to a really fast start up time of 0.5-1.0 second, this release covers most of the features planned for Tomboy 1.2.

How to install Emerillon Map Viewer in Ubuntu and Fedora

Written on January 26th, 2010 at 21:53 pm by shredder12

Emerillon Map Viewer doesn't have a stable release yet. So, it is not included in the main repos of many distros. But you can download and install the development packages. Although its always advised to install a stable release but the release 0.1.1 seemed pretty stable. So, if you want to give it a try then, in this small howto, we will see how to install Emerillon on Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" and Fedora 12 "Constantine".

Arista, a Multimedia transcoder for GNOME Desktop

Written on February 25th, 2010 at 01:29 am by shredder12

Today a friend of mine asked me to suggest him some good video converters in Linux. As of now, I am only aware of the King of all, ffmpeg, but when I searched in the repos for some more video convertors I came across Arista Transcoder, a pretty cool application which makes encoding media content for various popular devices really easy for you.

Support Gnome by shopping at Amazon.com

Written on February 3rd, 2010 at 20:46 pm by shredder12

Yes, its true. Install the Amazon GNOME Search Plugin in your Browser and when you search using this plugin to buy stuff at Amazon.com, GNOME Foundation gets a referral fee. This plugin was launched about 2 months ago. The GNOME Foundation earned a reasonable amount in this time and they are looking for more support from the fans.

How to make gnome-dictionary work offline

Written on January 29th, 2010 at 00:10 am by shredder12

So, I guess I was wrong about gnome-dictionary, it can be configured to work offline . All you have to do to make it work is, install the server packages, some dictionaries, a little tweaking in the configuration and there is your gnome-dictionary working in offline mode. It might not provide all the features of stardict but it does the job.

Emerillon Map Viewer

Written on January 26th, 2010 at 21:53 pm by shredder12

So, today I was reading about the Gnome 3.0 Usability Hackfest when I found this cool application, Emerillon Map Viewer. As the name suggests, it is a map viewer which features OpenStreetMaps based maps: the street map, the cycling and the transportation map. It provides you a really simple UI and is easy to manage. Its probably going to be a part of the new Gnome 3.0.

Gnome 3 Usability Hackfest

Written on January 26th, 2010 at 20:11 pm by shredder12

As the GNOME 3.0 approaches, the GNOME Community is going to hold a Usability Hackfest in London from feb 22-26. Those who are not aware about the usability project, it aims to make GNOME appearance more efficient and pleasant to the users. In this hackfest, they are planning to work and improve the design and usability of some new GNOME 3.0 components.

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