Author Archives: mccann
Blending and Transparency
Things are brewing in the Fedora Desktop community. Red Hat designers, engineers, and many active Fedora community members have been working hard to make the GNOME user experience great. Some enthusiasts may notice a bunch of this work showing up … Continue reading
GNOME Boston Summit
Things are underway here at the GNOME Boston Summit. After a quick introduction we took proposals for sessions. Owen is posting a schedule to the wiki now. We’re going to be posting regular updates to our Twitter feed. We’re also … Continue reading
Whatchamacallit
One of the things Jeremy Perry and I have been working on in the GNOME Shell design is a way to make application launching work better. You can see some of this in the following mockup: As you can see … Continue reading
Tool KITT
Just because a tool exists that allows you to do something does not mean it is the right thing to do. Sometimes we realize it was not worth doing in the first place. Sometimes we realize there are better ways … Continue reading
Getting the Message
If you are lucky enough to be with us in tropical Las Palmas and attended Owen’s keynote today you saw a preview of some of the new ideas we’ve been toying with for the GNOME Shell. One of these concepts, … Continue reading
The Third Age
(with apologies to Toffler for the title – Third Wave has other connotations these days) In the early days of personal digital computing things were pretty wild. After all it was the 70′s and California (where much of the [computing] … Continue reading
Words are Water
Risk And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom. – Anaïs Nin For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working pretty much non-stop … Continue reading
Presentity
We like to talk. Sometimes we are willing to listen. But not always. Sometimes we are busy, sometimes we sleep, and sometimes we are just sick of listening to you. I’ve tried to look at some of the ways we … Continue reading
Talk Like That
It has been a long while since I posted. Let’s see what I remember. Worked on a new gnome-session. XSMP is one step closer to the curb. Mostly worked to make the logout handling more reasonable. See http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/GnomeSession and http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-session/docs/gnome-session.html … Continue reading
State of the Art :: Wallpapers
For a variety of reasons, I spent some time assembling my observations of the state of the art of desktop wallpapers. I hope that others may find this useful. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, comments, or … Continue reading