Author: Georges Stavracas
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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…
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Other Locations on Nautilus (GSoC final report)
Did you see what just happened with Nautilus? In case you didn’t, here’s what happened: Yes, Nautilus now is able to display Other Locations view, and finally it caught up with Gtk+ file chooser! It’s already on master, so anyone can test it with jhbuild. Also, Nautilus 3.17.90 already includes it, so Fedora Rawhide users…
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About GUADEC, conferences, contributors & GNOME
As you may be aware, this year I attended GUADEC, the GNOME User And Developer European Conference. This is my first time here, so I have many thoughts to share. Warning: this is a highly reflexive and textual post. If you’re into images and tech stuff, this post may not suit you. The first impression…