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Free as in available space (Nautilus & Gtk update)
One of the greatest things in contributing to GNOME is the ability to have a really close contact with highly skilled designers. We, mere programmers, learn a freakin’ lot by talking to them and trying to understand their points of view. While working on the Other Locations view, one of the most requested features was…
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I’m joining Endless
Some of you may have asked why I’m so silent for the last 3 weeks. Well, the titles pretty much explain things: between university duties, moving to a new house and conducting my research, I’m also joining Endless! I’m ridiculously happy with this opportunity, and Endless folks were extremely respectful of my schedule – I’m…
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The new search for GNOME Files (aka Nautilus)
As some (most? none? who knows =P) of you already know, last cycle I worked as a Google Summer of Code intern with Gtk+ and Nautilus. We saw the very positive results of it. And the picky eyes out there noticed that I wrote with these exact words: “While the project is over, I won’t…
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Why Epiphany isn’t my default browser (and how that just changed)
GNOME has a collection of highly integrated applications that follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and, for me, many of them aren’t quite useful. That’s pretty sad. Actually, that’s the reason that motivated me to start working with GNOME – to make the apps be useful to me, and craft new ones if they don’t…
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What the future holds (or plans for GNOME 3.20)
We did it. Yes, we finally made it. We’re having the 3.18 release, and is the best release ever – just like every GNOME release. We saw many cool features landing, a number of awsome project which the GNOME interns (hey, I was one of them too!) worked on this summer and lots of exciting…
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Productivity, made better
Two months ago, GNOME To Do was introduced to the outside world. People got (unexpectedly, I must admit) excited about it, and said that the app looks promising. A month lated, another version was release with a bunch of new features. Now that we’re reaching the 3.18 release, it’s time to settle things down and…