Tag Archives | GNOME

Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu

By on February 16, 2009 in Technology

Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News — apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don’t know, there is a [...]

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Cryptkeeper for Encrypting User Files

By on December 8, 2008 in Technology

In this day and age, encryption has become the focus for securing sensitive data like bank account information, software licenses, or even social security numbers. If you have ever wanted to keep specific folders in your home directory encrypted in Linux there are a multitude of ways. Cryptkeeper and K-encfs come to mind. Both applications [...]

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GNOME File Manager Gets Tabbed Browsing and Column View Support

By on May 30, 2008 in Technology

For GNOME fans out there that love the UI polish but are less than happy about the lack of tabbed browser in the file manager and sometimes obsessive use of the “spatial” paradigm, rejoice! It looks like GNOME developer Christian Neumair has been working on adding tabbed browsing to Nautilus (the GNOME file manager); which [...]

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GNOME Murrine Theme Gets Transparent Widgets

By on December 13, 2007 in Technology

Andrea Cimitan, GNOME theme designer and author of the Murrine GTK theme engine, has implement transparent widget support to GTK, allowing for Vista-like transparencies for windows, buttons, etc. Ars explains that the implementation was done by adding RGBA maps to the theme engine and Andrea asserts that similar support for transparency can be added to [...]

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GNOME-Vista 2.16

By on September 1, 2006 in Technology

FootNotes is asking for screenshots of your 2.15.x or 2.16 beta desktop to be included in the new GNOME 2.16 release notes showing off some of the new features. You can make your submissions here, but you can check out the submissions people have already posted here. One that really struck my fancy was the [...]

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Official GNOME 2.16 Features

By on August 28, 2006 in Technology

I’ve been trying to dig up more detailed information about both Ubuntu EdgyEft (upcomming 6.10 Ubuntu release in October) and the GNOME 2.16 release that will be included with it. Most importantly I’ve been looking at the GNOME 2.16 information and have been getting sneak peaks at it by running the nightly EdgyEft LiveCDs to [...]

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Gnome 2.16 LiveCD and Features

By on August 16, 2006 in Technology

I was hunting around the web looking for a LiveCD that would let me try out the new Gnome 2.16 build, and eventually found the Ubuntu daily LiveCD builds. According to the manifest these builds are sporting the 2.15.90 build of Gnome 2.16, which sounds late enough to get a good idea of how it [...]

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