引述 :『At the recent GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC), the GNOME release team announced a proposal for developing the next major iteration of the open source desktop environment. The plan offers a long-term strategy for moving GNOME development forward and defining future goals for the desktop.』

引述 :『GDM佈景主題』

引述 :『gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects. It stores tunnel configurations in a simple XML format. The tunnels (local, remote and dynamic) can be managed and individually started/stopped through one simple interface.』

引述 :『Dragbox is a tool for connecting the commandline with the desktop environment. It summons a drag handle when you are managing files or information in a shell. It accepts both drags and drops, and can be made to output dragged-to items to the standard output. You can also pipe text to Dragbox, or a list of files using xargs.』

引述 :『The Gnome Desktop Environment comes with a set of default panel applets included. A little searching in your distribution´s repositories and on the Internet will uncover a few extra applets which are not included in the official Gnome offering, but which you may find very useful all the same. Let's take a brief look at some of them.』

引述 :『GNOME 2.22 是 GNOME 桌面环境目前最新的稳定版，该版本计划在今天正式发布。根据 GNOME 项目团队的开发周期，每隔 6 个月，GNOME 都会发布一个新的版本。可以预见的是，在 Ubuntu 8.04、Fedora 9、openSUSE 11 等 Linux 发行版中都将装载 GNOME 2.22。在 GNOME 2.22 中都有哪些新特性，让我们一起来关注。』

引述 :『Wallpapoz 0.4 is here! New version of Wallpapoz has many features. It supports i18n. The available translations are Indonesian, Japanese, Deutsch, Swedish, French and Spanish. It works in Beryl/Compiz session. The GUI is redone (conforming more to Gnome HIG). More complex tree operations (cut, copy, and paste) are added. You can add a directory of wallpapers (even recursive!)』

引述 :『每半年釋出一次的 GNOME 桌面環境在本週將會釋出 beta0 版本。而這次新版本的 GNOME 帶來幾個有趣的改進之處』

引述 :『我本身是 GNOME 的愛好者，更喜歡在閒暇時刻聽著音樂邊用電腦，搭配著合適氣氛的歌曲，那是很好的享受。於是今天就來熱血一下，把我在 GNOME 使用各類音樂播放(管理)軟體的一點點微不足道的經驗，分享給有興趣的同好。』

引述 :『For years, discerning Windows users have relied on Tweak UI, a semi-official Microsoft program for system settings not available on the default desktop. Now, in the same tradition and with something of the same name, Ubuntu Tweak (UT) offers the same advantage to Ubuntu users. Currently at version 0.2.4, for now UT is limited to features for GNOME and focuses mainly on changing default desktop and system behavior and how GNOME interacts with your hardware, but this small feature set is more than enough for proof of concept. 』

引述 :『Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for Gnome and XFce desktop environments. Entertainer is written completely in Python using object-oriented programming paradigm. It uses GStreamer multimedia framework for multimedia playback. User Interface is implemented with Clutter UI-library, which allows sleek OpenGL animated user interfaces. Entertainer also uses other great projects like SQLite, pyIMDBb and iNotify.』

引述 :『There's one thing for certain: Now is an exciting time to be a KDE user. The much anticipated launch of KDE 4 is slated for January 11th, 2008. This is a major revamp of the look and feel of the KDE desktop, with the inclusion of a built-in compositor (think eye candy) and something called "plasmoids" (little functional widgets embedded into your desktop).』

引述 :『There are two dominant software projects that provide Linux with a graphical user interface, but only one of them will get long-term support in Ubuntu's next version of the open-source operating system. GNOME, the default user interface for Ubuntu, will receive the support, but KDE won't.』

引述 :『The objective is to have a gnome terminal running as the desktop background, right above the actual background image, that won't be displayed by the statusbar or ticker. It should look something like this: Full transparency or Semi-transparent with shadows (using Xgl) Ok, lets get started... 』

引述 :『For the average computer user -- someone who uses their Linux machine to go online, create documents, and access multimedia files, GNOME is a solid choice. Developers and those who like their systems completely free (as in speech) also find GNOME appealing. GNOME is the default desktop in distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.』

引述 :『Installation of the themes, icons, cursors have totally changed. Now the previous theme/icon control panel, Cursor Control panel has been merged into a single CP i.e Appearance Wizard .. This is available with new Gnome 2.20 .. The Appearance wizard lets you configure your theme,icon , cursor, metacity/gtk windows border, color if supported by theme.. Apart from that you can add wallpaper, change fonts, change Menu/Tool bar Interface, and select the Visual Style i.e Desktop with 3d Effects or without it.. Installation in Gnome 2.20 is very easy as compared to previous version so lets take a look on how to install themes, icon cursor and other customization stuffs..』

引述 :『What in the blazes is a desktop environment, anyway? How is that different from a window manager? When is it more appropriate to use one over the other?』

引述 :『Xorg 1.4 開始支援 hal based 的 xinput hotplug，也就是說滑鼠跟鍵盤這些設備可以拔來拔去而不用在 xorg.conf 裡面設定，再加上越來越多 driver 可以 auto-configuration，xorg.conf 裡面的東西越來越少了。 xorg 的 evdev driver 是利用 linux kernel 的 evdev 支援，來使用滑鼠、鍵盤等多種設備，我的 Logitech V450 就一定要用 evdev 才能支援所有的按鍵。 無奈 Debian Sid 中的 Xorg 以及 evdev 都非常的新，但是一些升級的配套措施跟文件跟不上，導致最近發生許多問題，相關的 bug report 有 #443292、#442316。 今天終於把滑鼠鍵盤都設定好了，關鍵在於 hal 的設定跟 gnome 的設定。』

引述 :『這東西是我在用 python 寫些小工具處理 lazybuntu 中選擇輸入法用到的。因為要選擇輸入法時，需要跳對話視窗讓使用者選擇愛好的輸入法，不過我又不太會用 pygtk，後來想到了好久好久以前好像有在某一版的 gnome release note 看過這種可以簡易產生對話框的小工具，後來找一下就發現了 zenity。』

引述 :『If you use Google Calendar and Gnome desktop, you would possibly want to see your Google calendar events on your desktop. It's quite easy;』

引述 :『The goal of this project is to emulate the look and feel of MacOS X (latest version being Leopard) on *nix. Currently for GTK+ only.』