After Sun Microsystems was bought by Oracle, the last one began to fire many ex-Sun's workers. There are two lead developers of ``GNOME Accessibility'' and ``Orca'' (screen reader for blind people) projects among this big quantity of fired people. One of them have written an open letter to Oracle to review their decision.
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Exaile 0.3.1 Beta Released, Features An Equalizer And A Revamped Tag Editor
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Exaile 0.3.1 beta (a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python) has been released today and it's a preview of the new 0.3.1 version but should still be pretty stable to use already! The new Exaile version finally adds a long awaited equalizer, but also includes a revamped and much more powerful tag editor (ExFaso):
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Try Gstyle Project, A New Gnome Theme Manager
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Gstyle is a new full Gnome theme manager with some really great features which I am sure you will love if you like to customize your Desktop look constantly. Gstyle can automatically download and install wallpapers, Xsplash, GTK themes, icon themes, full themes, mouse pointers and more from gnome-look, deviantart, customize.org and others, or directly from the software source.
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How to install GNOME Activity Journal in Ubuntu
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The GNOME Activity Journal is a tool for easily browsing and finding files, contacts and other resources on your computer. Using Zeitgeist, it keeps a chronological journal of your activity and supports tagging and bookmarking (using the new Tracker 0.7) and establishing relationships between resources.
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KDE vs. GNOME: Email Readers
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Aside from perhaps the web browser, an email reader is likely to be the first application configured on a new computer installation. And, if you are using a desktop, the default choice is likely to be KMail if you are using KDE, or Evolution if you are using GNOME.
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GNOME 3.0: Fear Not!
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Does GNOME 3.0 necessarily need 3D acceleration? Do GNOME 2.0 apps run under 3.0? A website tries to provide answers to some unsettling questions.
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Nautilus Elementary: A Simplified Nautilus For Ubuntu
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The simplified / elementary Nautilus idea firstly begun with the 100 paper cuts for Ubuntu Karmic and it stated that the menu and columns are too big and take away space for the really important stuff. Unfortunately, a fix was never released. Here is where Nautilus Elementary comes in: a Nautilus patched for simplicity.
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GNOME Shell tryout
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I’ve been using the GNOME Shell preview available in Fedora 12 this week and I’m really enjoying it. I was testing out some candidates for updates to the free drivers for my ATI Radeon HD4850 (and the stuff that went with them) already, and decided to see what happened when I picked GNOME Shell. At F12 release time, my graphics card wasn’t quite ready for GNOME Shell use.
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GnoMenu is an interactive main menu designed for Gnome (targeted specifically at Ubuntu) but it lacks a native 64 bit package. Here's how to make a few changes to the source code and installer to get it to work on a 64 bit system.
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How To Install GNOME Activity Journal (Zeitgeist) In Ubuntu Karmic
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Gnome Zeitgeist is a tool for easily browsing and finding files on your computer. It keeps a chronological journal of all file activity and supports tagging and establishing relationships between groups of files. GNOME Activity Journal provides a GUI for Gnome Zeitgeist and it is somewhat similar to a Linux file browser called Nemo.
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How to get popup window before empty gnome trash in Ubuntu
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We have already discussed how to empty gnome trash from command line this will delete all the contents without prompt any warning this tutorial will explain how to get popup window before empty gnome trash.
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Manage your secure shell connections from the GNOME panel
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One tool to help you manage your secure shell connections is the GNOME SSHmenu tool. This helpful application adds a small applet to the GNOME panel that allows you to make secure shell connections with a single click.
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GnoMenu – A Customizable, Good-Looking Application Menu
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One of the great things about Linux is that there are a number of options for almost everything that you can hope to achieve. A very slick application menu is the GnoMenu. GnoMenu is a highly customizable application launcher. Let us see what all it can do.
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GNOME 2.29.4 released
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Version 2.29.4 of GNOME, a development release, has been announced. "And here comes 2.29.4, just in time for the holiday season."
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GNOME Panel tips and tricks
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GNOME is one of the more stable and user-friendly desktops around. And of course, like most of the Linux-verse, with a little tweaking you can make it even more user-friendly. The GNOME panel is one aspect of the GNOME desktop that certainly does not escape possible tweaks.
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