Karin Chan

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-16EVaTKloTA/UVx2VL-AQ7I/AAAAAAAAO14/RPVnKEMpG_U/s320/mate-desktop_1.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After 8 months of development, <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/">MATE</a> 1.6 has been <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/2013/04/02/mate-1-6-released/">released</a></b> yesterday and its Ubuntu and Debian repositories have been updated a few hours ago with the latest MATE desktop. <b>The new version comes with</b><b> many changes such as Systemd-logind support, Caja (file manager) improvements and more.</b><br /><br /><b>MATE 1.6</b> is "<b>a giant step forward from the 1.4 release</b>" according to the MATE developers and with this release, many deprecated packages and libraries have been replaced with new technologies available in GLib. <b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with MATE, this is a <b>GNOME2 fork</b> which lets you use the old GNOME 2 desktop interface and applications but it also allows you to use new applications so for instance, you can use Nautilus 3 with it and so on. Also, MATE can be installed in parallel with GNOME 3, something that wasn't possible with the vanilla GNOME 2. </div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>Changes in MATE 1.6</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Caja</b>, the default MATE file manager has received some interesting improvements, including support for new thumbnailers specifications and a new thumbnails frame, a new connect server dialog backported from Nautilus 3, the sidebar has been improved and there were many bug fixes:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--5KkRiSm6r4/UVx3Z3FLwDI/AAAAAAAAO2Q/xjPWcO7lxdM/s320/mate-desktop-1.6.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>MATE panel</b> Window List now supports middle clicking to close a window and the workspace switcher now has an option to wrap around between workspaces with the mouse wheel.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zXpAC5Mh0vY/UVxGLpB2vJI/AAAAAAAAO0o/xNrZ7YLdwss/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATE Control Center</b> has received some improvements too, including an <b>option to enable Marco compositing manager</b> and fast alt-tab window preferences and others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another interesting change has been made to the <b>Notification Daemon</b> which now has an <b>option which allows users to specify on which screen the notifications should be displayed</b> on and there's also support for notifications that "never expire".</div><br /><br /><b>Other improvements in MATE 1.6:</b><br /><ul><li>added support for systemd-logind in mate-session-manager, mate-screensaver and mate-power-manager (now you can reboot/shutdown without ConsoleKit);</li><li>MPRIS V2 support to send media keys to media players;</li><li>Caja now supports opening remote terminal;</li><li>other changes and bug fixes.</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0vlnl5VrFZU/UVx2r73JWnI/AAAAAAAAO2I/pQPEMfl2N3k/s320/mate-desktop_3.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BlackMATE theme</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9GgB3En4rY/UVx2f3LMyII/AAAAAAAAO2A/2aqch2uNqCQ/s320/mate-desktop_2.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GreenLaguna theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, <b>MATE 1.6 ships with new GTK2/3 themes</b>: Menta (seen throughout most of the screenshot of this article), BlackMATE, GreenLaguna and Traditional Green and there's a <b>new icon theme</b> as well: Menta. Also, GTK3 support has been added to some of the existing themes: TraditionalOk, TraditionalOkTest and ContrastHigh. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With version 1.6, MATE has transitioned to some new packages: GSettings has replaced MateConf, DBus has replaced MateCorba/MateComponent, GIO/GVFS has replaced MateVFS and libnotify has replaced libmatenotify.</div><br /><br />Here are a few more MATE 1.6 Desktop screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ibG6RZYQbno/UVxGDy4xPTI/AAAAAAAAO0g/wTVBa7tRzW4/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ri7sPSbRONk/UVxGeldicjI/AAAAAAAAO1A/gj0jV2aOfwc/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zTQ1GLnSAq0/UVxG1X2sMAI/AAAAAAAAO1I/h_jm4bGzDeI/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bjV9RrEDaHc/UVxG1v4rPTI/AAAAAAAAO1M/aY4ZRmyxUMs/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J45f6FzjUn4/UVx3tHhRXeI/AAAAAAAAO2Y/KHekf7pdPdk/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MATE Desktop in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>MATE is not currently available in the official Ubuntu / Debian repositories but it seems it will make it soon because it's currently on Debian ftp-master <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">new queue</a>.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and 11.10 users can install MATE Desktop by using its official repositories. To add the repositories and install MATE, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment</code></pre>Then, log out and select MATE from the login screen.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: for some reason, in my test, the MATE Notification Daemon wasn't installed by default so if that's the case for you too, use the following command to install it:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install mate-notification-daemon</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've also seen some Raring packages in the MATE repositories so it seems Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be supported soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, see the MATE installation <a href="http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download">wiki page</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Removing MATE</h2><br />If you've installed MATE in Ubuntu using the commands above and you want to remove it, use the command below in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove mate-archive-keyring mate-notification-daemon atril atril-common caja caja-common engrampa engrampa-common eom eom-common gir1.2-mate-panel libatril libcaja-extension libmarco libmatedesktop libmatekbd libmatekeyring libmatemenu libmatepanelapplet libmatepolkit libmateweather libmateweather-common libmatewnck libmatewnck-common marco marco-common mate-applets mate-applets-common mate-backgrounds mate-calc mate-control-center mate-core mate-desktop mate-desktop-common mate-desktop-environment mate-dialogs mate-icon-theme mate-media mate-media-common mate-media-gstreamer mate-menus mate-panel mate-panel-common mate-polkit mate-power-manager mate-power-manager-common mate-screensaver mate-screensaver-common mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-settings-daemon-common mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-system-monitor mate-terminal mate-terminal-common mate-themes mate-utils mate-utils-common pluma pluma-common</code></pre><br />And to remove the MATE repositories, use:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre>

MATE 1.6 Released, Install It In Ubuntu [GNOME 2 Fork]

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GNOME 3.8 Released - See What's New [Video, Screenshots]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wfuYd1fD34A/UVM4yQrZofI/AAAAAAAAOvg/KU_RvE9N_Q8/s1600/gnome.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gnome logo" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wfuYd1fD34A/UVM4yQrZofI/AAAAAAAAOvg/KU_RvE9N_Q8/s1600/gnome.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</a> 3.8 has been <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/">released</a> today, the new version bringing many new features and enhancements, including a new application view and overhauled window layout for GNOME Shell, new setting panels for privacy, search and notifications and of course, many updates to the core GNOME apps like Web (Epiphany), Boxes, Documents and more.<br /><br />Let's take a look at what's new!</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>GNOME 3.8 video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video with some of the changes / new features in GNOME 3.8 (with GNOME Shell):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ete5Us0-IpY" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ete5Us0-IpY">direct video link</a>; for more videos, subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>GNOME Shell / GNOME Settings 3.8 changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With GNOME 3.8, the Activities Overview has got many changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a new applications view with frequently used and all apps and a new feature called AppFolders that has replaced the old categories</li><li style="text-align: justify;">an overhauled window layout with bigger thumbnails; window thumbnails are also scaled to reflect the size of the actual windows;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the Message Tray now lets you clear all notifications by right clicking on the tray and choosing "Clear Notifications"</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the search view has been overhauled and it can include results from any application and is configurable via GNOME Settings. For instance Files, Contacts, Boxes and Documents can provide their own search results;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new input methods OSD switcher.</li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-apps.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Shell 3.8 applications view" border="0" height="179" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-auWR25zPh3U/UVMlMtYZP9I/AAAAAAAAOsg/2lQQybp0Nak/s320/gnome3.8-apps.png" title="GNOME Shell 3.8 applications view" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New applications view</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-apps_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Shell 3.8 AppFolders" border="0" height="179" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--dhQlF4CEm8/UVMlM9FQ-ZI/AAAAAAAAOsk/uvj2368u9YA/s320/gnome3.8-apps_2.png" title="GNOME Shell 3.8 AppFolders" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AppFolders</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-notifications-clear.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Clear all notifications from the Message Tray" border="0" height="154" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pYRS80RZlYk/UVMlNB6SVoI/AAAAAAAAOso/bwy2cKLXlFs/s320/gnome3.8-notifications-clear.png" title="Clear all notifications from the Message Tray" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clear all notifications from the Message Tray</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-search-files-results.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="gnome shell 3.8 new search" border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9C3gqyM-y-A/UVMlN8dZWzI/AAAAAAAAOs0/UBevxF9-8SQ/s320/gnome3.8-search-files-results.png" title="gnome shell 3.8 new search" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New search view with results from applications</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-window-layout.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pcnCgWw1Ee8/UVMlN6y6XHI/AAAAAAAAOs4/eLvjWtLx00Q/s320/gnome3.8-window-layout.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New window layout with bigger thumbnails</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3-language-input.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Shell language switcher OSD" border="0" height="154" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dTM00Pgd_bQ/UVMlMhsdqVI/AAAAAAAAOsY/wuZgGfXCyxg/s320/gnome3-language-input.png" title="GNOME Shell language switcher OSD" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New input methods OSD switcher and Region & Language settings panel</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME 3.8 ships with a brand<b> new Privacy GNOME Settings (previously "System Settings) panel</b> that lets you purge recent history and control various privacy settings:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-privacy-settings.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 privacy settings" border="0" height="181" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9GdD5B9nPtM/UVMl7048AXI/AAAAAAAAOtI/06gIkRa-xes/s320/gnome3.8-privacy-settings.png" title="GNOME 3.8 privacy settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A <b>new Search GNOME Settings panel</b> which lets you control which search results are displayed in the Activities Overview. Here, you can enable/disable various applications from showing up as well as individual search settings for each application:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-search-settings.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 search settings" border="0" height="233" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uebDSM3nTo8/UVMmCr87B6I/AAAAAAAAOtQ/jGTaS60rEg8/s320/gnome3.8-search-settings.png" title="GNOME 3.8 search settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-search-settings_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 search settings" border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L73KYcCtBbo/UVMmCiJ26oI/AAAAAAAAOtU/ApzdL1QSa0E/s320/gnome3.8-search-settings_2.png" title="GNOME 3.8 search settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's also a<b> new Notifications GNOME Settings panel</b> that, just like the new search settings, lets you control what notifications are displayed and you can enable/disable per application notifications or set which app notifications should be displayed for each application:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-notification-settings_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 notification settings" border="0" height="211" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nQUraBCcL8s/UVMmHPh_LnI/AAAAAAAAOtg/loHTtbM013s/s320/gnome3.8-notification-settings_2.png" title="GNOME 3.8 notification settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-notification-settings.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 notification settings" border="0" height="207" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ljRKCOivQ8A/UVMmHJEneEI/AAAAAAAAOtk/OsR4AKlcxPE/s320/gnome3.8-notification-settings.png" title="GNOME 3.8 notification settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>These are just the most important GNOME Shell 3.8 / GNOME Settings 3.8 changes, there are many more tweaks and enhancements, like:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">the Network, Power, Region & Language and Printer settings panels have received various updates</li><li style="text-align: justify;">access the background settings by right clicking on the desktop, a feature that was missing in the previous GNOME 3.* releases;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">smooth scrolling in the overview and menus;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">easier access to the Message Tray;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/owncloud-5-released-with-new-design.html">ownCloud</a> has been integrated into Online Accounts;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">much more! </li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And of course, like we were telling you <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/gnome-38-to-ship-with-reworked-folder.html">a while back</a>, there are also <b>updated GNOME Icon Theme folder icons</b>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-nautilus-new-folder-icons-color.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 new folder icons" border="0" height="197" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RPnJbPkICqw/UVM18oWsDyI/AAAAAAAAOvY/CAZwGgnyBAw/s320/gnome3.8-nautilus-new-folder-icons-color.png" title="GNOME 3.8 new folder icons" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><br /><h2>GNOME Classic</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like we were telling you a while back, <b>the old GNOME fallback mode has been removed and in its place, there's a new classic mode</b> that tries to provide a GNOME2-like layout. The new Classic mode uses some GNOME Shell extensions to achieve this so even though on a first look the layout is similar to GNOME 2, you're still using GNOME Shell and you can access the Activities Overview and other GNOME Shell features.</div><br />Here are a few GNOME Classic mode screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-classi.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K2lnHgzwFCA/UVMzr04vE3I/AAAAAAAAOuw/Q1kqAhUx9Oc/s320/gnome3.8-classi.png" title="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-classic_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1BLkyhXI9jE/UVMzr8ufx6I/AAAAAAAAOu0/PAGSVOI8hiE/s320/gnome3.8-classic_3.png" title="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-classic_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ljI_RzgVlrc/UVMzr0FO34I/AAAAAAAAOu4/liHsbRW7-yg/s320/gnome3.8-classic_2.png" title="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-classic_4.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LM8lj4ySIo4/UVMzsqk-QJI/AAAAAAAAOvE/pYdcEMFZQ_8/s320/gnome3.8-classic_4.png" title="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />More about the new GNOME classic mode in our previous post: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/a-quick-look-at-new-gnome-classic.html">A Quick Look At The New GNOME Classic Session</a><br /><br /><br /><h2>GNOME applications</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The core GNOME applications have received many enhancements and there's also a new application: <b>GNOME Clocks</b>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome-clocks_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 clocks" border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zLxacThK6aU/UVMmPfhte8I/AAAAAAAAOtw/N2p2CQcQEko/s320/gnome-clocks_2.png" title="GNOME 3.8 clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome-clocks.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 clocks" border="0" height="242" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j1BEav0TVk8/UVMmPQAfwWI/AAAAAAAAOt0/63DfDMmiIcE/s320/gnome-clocks.png" title="GNOME 3.8 clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME 3.8 is the first GNOME release to include Clocks by default. This is an application that lets you see the time in various places around the world (that you add), set up alarms, stopwatch and a timer.</div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-document-editing.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 Documents" border="0" height="173" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Q3xYUdpAck/UVMoE40IpMI/AAAAAAAAOuY/CS7CjAjIsig/s320/gnome3.8-document-editing.png" title="GNOME 3.8 Documents" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-document-scrolling.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 Documents" border="0" height="173" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9M-DK1xb7ZE/UVMoFIKgj0I/AAAAAAAAOuc/s8eve6sBPIA/s320/gnome3.8-document-scrolling.png" title="GNOME 3.8 Documents" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GNOME Documents</b> has received some new features, including an embedded edit mode for Google Docs so you can edit documents directly from the application, a presentation mode and more:</div><ul><li>new preview scrub bar and page controls; </li><li>better document preview reading width and dual page mode;</li><li>bookmarks and Table of Content dialogs;</li><li>support PDF files from Google Drive;</li><li>sharing dialog for Google Docs.</li></ul><div style="text-align: right;"><i>GNOME Documents screenshots via <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/">mclasen</a> because I couldn't get the app to work. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nautilus</b> (Files) has got its treeview back and also, it is now integrated with the Recent Files feature in Privacy Settings.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-web-incognito.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 web epiphany" border="0" height="205" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PV8U6vt2Gv0/UVMmjNwGHrI/AAAAAAAAOuA/cP63lLd59XU/s320/gnome3.8-web-incognito.png" title="GNOME 3.8 web epiphany" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-web.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 web epiphany" border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bb44i8q6fp0/UVMmjBd5ldI/AAAAAAAAOuI/KMFBUdJ-iWc/s320/gnome3.8-web.png" title="GNOME 3.8 web epiphany" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Epiphany (Web)</b> has switched to WebKit2 with the 3.8 release and it now includes an incognito mode, a new search UI and it now supports GTK+2 plugins, including Adobe Flash plugin. Other Web changes:</div><ul><li>pages can now crash without bringing down the entire browser;</li><li>revamped UI for HTML5 media content;</li><li>undo closed tab;</li><li>new tab button in the toolbar;</li><li>async session save and restore;</li><li>delayed tab restore on startup.</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome-boxes.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME Boxes" border="0" height="255" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-El2Pa9rosPQ/UVMmpztx0LI/AAAAAAAAOuQ/hr4dOt3a3O8/s320/gnome-boxes.png" title="GNOME Boxes" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There have also been many changes to GNOME Boxes, Contacts, Gedit has got an appmenu like the other core GNOME applications and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally,<b> GTK+ 3.8</b> includes support for Wayland 1.0 and there have been various improvements to text handle theming, various GTKWidget improvements and <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.announce/10933">more</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more info about GNOME 3.8, check out the official <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/">release notes</a>.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>What's next?</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The GNOME 3.8 release notes mention two new applications that are available as preview in GNOME 3.8 and which will be integrated by default with GNOME 3.10: <b>Weather and Bijiben</b>:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/bijiben-note.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Bijiben note-taking app" border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A3IXAh4ybuw/UVNGFfqUXEI/AAAAAAAAOvo/qcmjFglt45Q/s320/bijiben-note.png" title="GNOME Bijiben note-taking app" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bijiben note-taking app</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/weather-zurich.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Weather app" border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CSTGz_A7xvk/UVNGFf7gjVI/AAAAAAAAOvs/r-bo4ud1LvY/s320/weather-zurich.png" title="GNOME Weather app" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> The next stable GNOME release - 3.10 -, is also supposed to <a href="https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointNine/Features">bring</a> automatic extension updates, Git integration in the developer experience, a new Maps application, Colour Tinting in GNOME Shell, Videos application implementation and Focus-caret tracking in GNOME Shell. The feature list for GNOME 3.10 is still being discussed so this is not a final list of improvements we'll see in the next stable GNOME release.</div><br /><br /><h2>Getting GNOME 3.8</h2><br />Ubuntu 13.04 will ship with GNOME 3.6 for the most part but you'll be able to install GNOME 3.8 by using the GNOME 3 PPA. You can already install most GNOME 3.8 development builds in Ubuntu 13.04 - see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/gnome-38-beta-available-in-ppa-for.html">GNOME 3.8 Beta Available In PPA For Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME 3.8 will be available in distros that ship with GNOME, such as Fedora (19), etc. and there should also be some ISO files available for testing on the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/">GNOME.org</a> website (they aren't available yet).<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Note: the screenshots / video were made using GNOME 3.8 RC2 so there might be some slight differences between what you see here and what's in the final GNOME 3.8 release. But only minor changes (if any)! </i></div></div>

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Variety Wallpaper Changer Sees New Release

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://peterlevi.com/variety/">Variety</a>, a cool <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/keep-yout-desktop-fresh-with-variety.html">wallpaper changer</a> that works with most desktop environments (KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Unity, GNOME Shell, Cinnamon or Pantheon), has reached version 0.4.12.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/variety-wallpaper-changer.png"><img alt="Variety wallpaper changer" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/variety-wallpaper-changer_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Changes in Variety 0.4.12:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><b>quotes support</b> - Variety can fetch quotes from QuotesDaddy and display them on top of the desktop. The quotes are highly customizable: you can change the text color, backdrop color, font, transparency, shadow, placement, and you can also filter quotes by tags or authors or set the interval between quotes</li><li><b>customizable appindicator icon</b>: you can now select between dark and light appindicator icons but not only that. In the latest Variety, you can also use the current wallpaper to be used as an indicator icon (so the icon changes with the wallpaper). The icon can also be hidden in which case you can control Variety via keyboard shortcuts or using the Unity quicklists</li><li>the option to display a digital clock on top of the wallpaper has been enhanced: <b>both the clock and the date font can be customized</b> (the typeface as well as the font size)</li><li>Preferences take effect immediately</li><li>Support for XMP/EXIF image ratings</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/variety-quotes.png"><img alt="Variety wallpaper changer - quotes" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/variety-quotes_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br />For those not familiar with Variety, here's a quick feature list:<br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>should work under KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Unity, GNOME Shell, Cinnamon or Pantheon (elementary OS)</li><li>can automatically download wallpaper from Flickr, Wallbase.cc, Wallpapers.net as well as NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.</li><li>Ubuntu appindicator support; you can scroll over the indicator icon to change the wallpaper</li><li>can apply fancy filters to the images: grayscale, heavy blur, oil painting, charcoal painting, pointilism, pixellate</li><li>option to display the time on the desktop, using a nice digital clock</li><li>clipboard support: can monitor the clipboard for image URLs and fetch them</li><li>more</li></ul><br />Below you can see the latest Variety 0.4.12 in action:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="280" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/54322138?badge=0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="500"></iframe><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/54322138">Direct video link</a></center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Variety wallpaper changer</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Variety is available in the Ubuntu Software Center (for Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10), but the version is quite old so to install the latest version, you can use its official Ubuntu PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install variety</code></pre><br />Arch Linux users can get Variety wallpaper changer via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=63454">AUR</a>.<br /><br />For other Linux distributions, the Variety source code can be downloaded via <a href="https://launchpad.net/variety/+download">Launchpad</a>.

Variety Wallpaper Changer Sees New Release

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Fallback Mode (Classic Session) To Be Dropped From GNOME 3.8

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OmKT5NXIjDk/UJweUW8JBiI/AAAAAAAALwY/XniJnoaArNc/s1600/gnome-fallback.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gnome fallback mode" border="0" height="208" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OmKT5NXIjDk/UJweUW8JBiI/AAAAAAAALwY/XniJnoaArNc/s320/gnome-fallback.png" title="gnome fallback mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The fallback mode, also known as the classic GNOME session, will no longer be included starting with GNOME 3.8, the next stable GNOME release.</b> Users running computers without graphical acceleration can use GNOME Shell through <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a>, which is already supported for some releases.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><blockquote>I'm <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2012-November/msg00009.html">writing</a> to inform you that the release team discussed ["<a href="https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode">Drop or Fix Fallback Mode</a>"] yesterday. We've come to the conclusion that we can't maintain fallback mode in reasonable quality, and are better off dropping it.</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The GNOME 3.8 features page <a href="https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode">mentions</a> some of the <b>reasons behind the decision </b>to drop the fallback mode of which, the most important one seems that "<b>it's in maintenance mode</b>", without no new features or active development for a long time. <b>Other reasons include:</b></div><ul><li>nearly nobody actively tests it</li><li>the presence of fallback mode is having a negative impact on the quality of the primary GNOME 3 user experience</li><li>several apps such as Totem or Cheese now require Clutter and can't work without GL. Thus they won't work in fallback mode</li><li>some changes in the architecture require additional work to keep things somewhat working in fallback, even though they won't offer the full experience</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Dropping the follback mode doesn't just mean there will be no more classic GNOME session. With it, <b>some GNOME modules might go away</b>, like Metacity, GNOME Panel, GNOME Applets, notification-daemon, GNOME Screensaver, polkit-gnome and nm-applet. Furthermore, <b>this decision affects Unity, LXDE or Xfce too</b> because they make use of some fallback components like tray icons of GNOME Settings Daemon. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But not all is bad, because <b>dropping the fallback mode means that some modules </b>like GNOME Control Center, GDM or Nautilus <b>could be simplified</b>, mentions the "Drop or Fix Fallback Mode" <a href="https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode">page</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The GNOME developers didn't forget about the users who prefer a <b>GNOME 2-like layout</b>, and it looks like they will <b>compile</b> and maybe help maintain <b>a list of GNOME Shell extensions</b> that provide such a layout.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu users don't have to worry about this just yet, since the next Ubuntu version - 13.04 Raring Ringtail -, will <a title="Ubuntu 13.04: Only Some GNOME Components To Be Updated, GTK Not One Of Them" href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/ubuntu-1304-only-some-gnome-components.html">continue to use GNOME 3.6 for the most part</a> and not the latest GNOME 3.8 which will ship without the fallback mode.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-3-8-is-dropping-fallback-mode/">worldofgnome.org</a>, <a href="https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode">live.gnome.org</a> and gnome <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2012-November/msg00009.html">release-team</a> mailing list</i></div>

Fallback Mode (Classic Session) To Be Dropped From GNOME 3.8

The fallback mode, also known as the classic GNOME session, will no longer be included starting with GNOME 3.8, the next stable GNOME releas...

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