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GNOME 3 platform cleanup

Long time no update on the Cleanup part of GNOME 3, hence if somebody wants to spend the Christmas days with hacking a bit on boring stuff, here’s the ToDo list! ;-) Killing libgnomeui: gnome-panel Killing libglade: gdm (patch available … Continue reading

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To GNU or not to GNU

Being not subscribed to GNOME’s foundation-list mailing list (and having no intention to subscribe to it), I tried to catch up a bit with the controversy of the last days. I might have missed stuff of course. Trying to summarize: … Continue reading

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GNOME 3.0: September 2010!

After collecting some feedback, the GNOME Release Team has finally decided on the release date for GNOME 3.0: It will be September 2010.To take a look again at the GNOME 3 plan that was released in April 2009: Click here. … Continue reading

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GNOME 2.28 released!

Just came back from the wonderful Vypsaná fixa album release party to see that there is yet another great GNOME major release available. Go check out the improvements and changes! Made to share! Work on GNOME 3 is ongoing, of … Continue reading

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The N900 & Maemo 5

It’s announced. And I’m proud to be part of it. See it in action.

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Wishlist: Evolution Instant Messaging integration

Apart from the missing code required to sync evolution-data-server’s contacts with Empathy (Nat once wrote an Evolution plugin for Pidgin but nowadays Empathy and the Telepathy stack are official part of the GNOME platform) I’ve spent an evening a few … Continue reading

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GNOME 3 update + Module proposals welcome now!

Propose your module for GNOME now Module proposal period for the next GNOME release has started! If you are a maintainer of a module that you want to propose for official inclusion in GNOME: Do it now! See the wiki … Continue reading

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GNOME Bugsquad policy changes

One week ago the GNOME Bugsquad had an IRC meeting initiated by Javier Jardón. The log can be found here. To summarize the important decisions: Bug reports in GNOME Bugzilla (not: enhancement requests) with 1 year without any activity will … Continue reading

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GNOME 3 cleanup status update

This is another (shortened) update about cleaning up the GNOME stack for GNOME 3. This has also been posted to the desktop-devel mailing list. This status report refers to the aims listed in the 2.27/2.29 schedule and the automatic statistics … Continue reading

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GNOME Bugsquad meeting

The ever-active Javier Jardón initiated an IRC Bugsquad meeting on Monday 3rd of August, 18:00 UTC in #bugs on GIMPnet Click here for the agenda plus feel free to add any ideas that might be worth discussion with regard to … Continue reading

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