How To Install GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/see-whats-new-in-gnome-310-video.html">GNOME 3.10</a> has been released yesterday and I've received requests to write an article on how to upgrade to it in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, so here goes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The instructions below are only for those who want to use GNOME Shell (Ubuntu GNOME users, Unity users who want to switch to GNOME Shell, etc.) because of some bugs with the GNOME 3.10 PPA packages and Unity.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdA139p9eXWhLuqMON2TOn41E0YDjHjFM4rq9AldMq1-3Lp-ucH989xdqHaHsD5M25LumBeHnhsIvJ_jZldKmAo2B7GJQ_zQhY1HuDlp8qlFrkrJuE-j54v5G_9blGAZrnBfZapc-i5I/s1600/gnome3.10-ubuntu-saucy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdA139p9eXWhLuqMON2TOn41E0YDjHjFM4rq9AldMq1-3Lp-ucH989xdqHaHsD5M25LumBeHnhsIvJ_jZldKmAo2B7GJQ_zQhY1HuDlp8qlFrkrJuE-j54v5G_9blGAZrnBfZapc-i5I/s320/gnome3.10-ubuntu-saucy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-next">GNOME 3 Next PPA</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/new-gnome-310-ppa-announced-for-ubuntu.html">announced</a> not so long ago, contains GNOME 3.10 packages that are considered stable. Unfortunately, the PPA currently only has a few packages: GNOME Shell (including the official extensions), GNOME Themes, GTK3, Mutter, Clutter, Network Manager, Vala, Wayland and WebkitGTK so basically, to get a GNOME 3.10 desktop which includes System Settings, the core apps, etc., you must also add the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">GNOME 3 Staging PPA</a> which contains packages that have known bugs and regressions, "sometimes of critical nature" mentions the PPA description.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test (I'm using GNOME 3.10 right now on my main computer) under Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, I've added both the GNOME 3 Next PPA and the GNOME 3 Staging PPA and I've <span style="color: red;"><b>encountered the following issues:</b></span></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><b>LightDM doesn't work</b> so if you plan on using these PPAs, make sure you switch to GDM prior to upgrading;</li><li><b>using these PPAs pretty much breaks Unity</b>: the AppIndicators don't work, the applications don't show up in Dash, the mouse is invisible (update: this invisible mouse issue can be fixed by using the following command: "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false"), the new CSD applications don't have shadows and there are probably other issues too but I've only used Unity for a few minutes. So only add these PPAs for now if you don't have Unity installed or you don't plan on using Unity;</li><li>some applications may not work properly or not work at all - in my test, Synapse stopped working while gThumb doesn't display the thumbnails properly.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>So only follow the instructions below if you know what you're doing and know how to use PPA-Purge to revert the changes in case something goes wrong!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What will be upgraded:</b> by using the instructions below, besides GNOME Shell (and the default extensions), GDM, GTK, GNOME Control Center, etc. and various libraries, the following applications will be upgraded to version 3.10.0: Cheese, Eye Of GNOME, Evince, Gedit, Boxes, Clocks, Contacts, Documents, Font Viewer, System Monitor, Terminal, Tweak Tool, Weather and Files (Nautilus). Web (Epiphany) won't be upgraded to version 3.10 for now, but to 3.9.91. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What won't be upgraded to version 3.10:</b> unfortunately, the other GNOME 3.10 applications are missing from these PPAs: Music, Notes (Bijben - version 3.8.4 is available in the official repositories), Maps, Photos and Software. Totem won't be upgraded for now either.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That said, let's proceed to upgrading GNOME to the latest 3.10 version in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Upgrade To GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander</h2><br /><b>1. Switch to GDM if you're not using it already.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I was telling you above, in my test LightDM didn't work after using the two GNOME3 PPAs, so install GDM if it's not already installed:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gdm</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And select GDM instead of LightDM when prompted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to switch between LightDM, GDM, etc. see <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu">THESE</a> instructions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Add the GNOME3 Next and GNOME3 Staging PPAs and upgrade to GNOME 3.10</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before adding the GNOME 3 Staging PPA, make sure you read its <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">description</a>.</b></div><br />Now let's add the PPAs and upgrade to GNOME 3.10:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Important: </b></span>when running "dist-upgrade", make sure you read the output before entering "y" to make sure no important packages are removed!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, since GNOME 3.10 doesn't work properly with Unity, you must want to use GNOME Shell, so install it using the following command if you didn't install it already: </div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-shell</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To install all the GNOME apps (and the default GNOME Shell extensions) that aren't installed by default in Ubuntu, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-documents gnome-contacts epiphany-browser gnome-boxes gnome-shell-extensions gnome-tweak-tool bijiben gnome-clocks</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Tip: to avoid issues with black elements in various applications (and to get the default GNOME 3.10 scrollbars which now support fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb), remove the Ubuntu overlay scrollbars:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar</code></pre><br /><br /><b>3. Restart the computer.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For me, restarting via the system menu didn't work so if that happens for you too, reboot via command line:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo reboot</code></pre><br />And in the login screen, select the "GNOME" session. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ambiance doesn't work properly with applications that use client side decorations so if you were using it, change to Adwaita theme using GNOME Tweak Tool (the application should have been installed with the last command from step 2 above). Another theme that supports GNOME 3.10 and client side decorations is <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/new-ppa-for-numix-gtk-and-icon-themes.html">Numix</a>.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If something doesn't work or you simply don't like GNOME 3.10 and want to revert the changes and go back to the default GNOME 3.8 available in the official Ubuntu 13.10 repositories, you need to purge the PPAs added using the instructions above, starting with the GNOME 3 Staging PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've removed the Overlay Scrollbars package, install it back using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install overlay-scrollbar</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you were using LightDM and want to switch back to it, follow <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu">THESE</a> instructions.</div><br />And finally, reboot.

How To Install GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander

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See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GNOME 3.10 has been <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/">released</a> today with some important changes such as initial Wayland support, header bars (client side decorations), a new system menu for GNOME Shell which combines the previous system status menus and of course, updated core GNOME apps as well as some new applications.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspVbin0A3-qS_vLyQF_dheRPnXRvk1uGU8UDQB2fLrY3JrQFLP2NjeTriMUgTtKqeRbgO1L_xMxZKNHtJ3Td15iLSOz57xDeWmiAvCpwrSGyZP0Ai3X09el9yM8MM8GCDcrSdpRT_0ic/s1600/gnome3.10.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspVbin0A3-qS_vLyQF_dheRPnXRvk1uGU8UDQB2fLrY3JrQFLP2NjeTriMUgTtKqeRbgO1L_xMxZKNHtJ3Td15iLSOz57xDeWmiAvCpwrSGyZP0Ai3X09el9yM8MM8GCDcrSdpRT_0ic/s320/gnome3.10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Let's take a look at what's new!<br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.10 video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video I've recorded earlier today with some of the changes in GNOME 3.10:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-MfbuJU6X9U" width="480"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MfbuJU6X9U">direct video link</a>; for more videos, subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>GNOME Shell / Settings changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Shell hasn't received many changes, but GNOME 3.10 introduces a pretty important change: <b>the old system status menus have been replaced with a new System Menu</b>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-system-status-menu.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 system menu" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-system-status-menu_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The System Menu is more compact and includes brightness and sound sliders, quick access to wireless networks, battery status as well as settings, lock screen and shutdown buttons. The language selector continues to use a separate menu as you can see in the screenshot above.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Other changes in the latest GNOME Shell 3.10:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>improved login and lock screens: better layout, nicer transitions, prettier lock screen notifications, etc.;</li><li>various improved transitions;</li><li>pagination in the application picker. </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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-gs-pagination.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 pagination" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-gs-pagination_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">App picker pagination<u><br /></u></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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 pagination" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME 3.10 lock screen</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another pretty major change in the latest GNOME 3.10 is the introduction of <b>"header bars" or "client side decorations"</b>. These decorations use the GTK+ toolkit and theme engine:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 client side decorations" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see, the close button is now displayed inline with the toolbar which saves spaces but unfortunately it also creates an even bigger discrepancy between GNOME core apps and the other applications, because only the core GNOME apps use these client side decorations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Client side decorations can also change state, here are two screenshots that showcase it:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 header bars" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 header bars" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With GNOME 3.10, there are also quite a few changes to Settings (Control Center):</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>the lock screen background can now be changed via the Background settings;</li><li>new date and time settings; there's also a new feature here: automatically change the computer's timezone based on the current location;</li><li>new display settings;</li><li>new universal access settings;</li><li>the background can be selected from your Flickr photos;</li><li>Telepathy integration and Google 2-factor authentication for Online Accounts.</li></ul><br />Here are a few screenshots with these Settings changes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen-background.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 background settings" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen-background_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-time-date.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 time and date settings" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-time-date_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 displays" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 displays" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Other changes include:</b><br /><ul><li>new zoom mode for the scrollbars which allow for fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb;</li><li>smartcards are now supported as an alternate way to log in or unlock the screen;</li><li>password authentication can now be disabled, forcing just fingerprint or smartcard authentication;</li><li>initial Wayland support;</li><li>high resolution (HiDPI) support.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.10 core apps</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With GNOME 3.10, <b>three applications that were available as a preview in GNOME 3.8, are now fully integrated</b>: Bijiben, a note taking app, <b>GNOME Weather and GNOME photos</b>:</div><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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 bijiben notes" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bijiben</u></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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 weather" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 weather" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-photos.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 photos" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-photos_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Photos</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bijiben now supports collections and is integrated with OwnCloud. Also, now the notes can show up in the GNOME Shell search. An interesting feature in Bijiben which might be available in the future for other GNOME apps as well is the right click menu which looks like the one used on touch devices:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes-right-click.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 bijiben notes right click" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes-right-click_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest GNOME Photos features Flickr support, albums, share images to devices that support UPNP such as a TV, phone or another computer and more. Weather hasn't received any important changes except for the new client side decorations.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are also <b>3 new preview apps for GNOME 3.10: Music and Maps and Software</b>:</div><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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-music.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 music" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-music_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Music<u><br /></u></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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-maps.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 maps" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-maps_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Maps</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-software.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 software" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-software_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Software</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another new application is Photos, which features Flickr support, albums, share images to devices that support UPNP such as a TV, phone or another computer and more.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in the other core GNOME applications:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Web:</b> DuckDuck go is now the default search engine; Web now has a search provider for GNOME Shell which allows accessing your web history or searching the web from the GNOME Shell Activities</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Contacts:</b> UI enhancements, updated setup and accounts dialogs</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tweak Tool</b>: redesigned for GNOME 3.10 and includes new options, such as startup applications management, etc.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Evince Document Viewer</b>: improved accessibility, new Caret Navigation mode, improved Djvu support and a new sidebar showing search results</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Clocks: Pretty new analog timer in stopwatch and timer views as well as geolocation support</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Boxes:</b> support for importing system images (QEMU, raw, vdi - Virtualbox 1.1 image format, vmdk - VMware 3 and 4, vpc and cloop) as well as many UI and other 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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-web.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 epiphany web" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-web_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Web (Epiphany)</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-tweak-tool.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 tweak tool" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-tweak-tool_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Tweak Tool</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-clocks.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 clocks" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-clocks_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Clocks</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Up next: GNOME 3.12</b>, which should <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointEleven/Features">introduce</a> a Sound Recorder preview release, full Wayland support, Systemd for the user session, colour tinting in GNOME Shell, videos application implementation, support for Facebook in GNOME photos, integrate Zimbra in GNOME, Git integration in the developer experience as well as ratings, screenshots and history support in GNOME Software.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>3 screenshots via <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/">gnome.org</a></i></div>

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New PPA For Numix GTK And Icon Themes, More

<div style="text-align: justify;">Quick update for Numix fans: <b>a new Numix PPA</b> has been created and it hosts daily builds for Numix GTK theme, two Numix icon themes, a Plank theme and even a Numix wallpaper. More Numix related artwork will be added to this PPA in the future.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, <b>Numix GTK theme is now compatible with GTK 3.4 and Pantheon</b> (it already supported GTK 3.6 and 3.8), meaning it should work properly in Ubuntu 12.04 and <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/quick-elementary-os-02-luna-stable.html">elementary OS 0.2 Luna</a>.</div><br />Here are a few screenshots:<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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/numix-gtk-theme_1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Numix themes" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjensy3PY_ckUmvwnUjiIvYNInY5S0Lc4UQz3JYwCgsSP-oHHxzzNu-bO2wYO_iHyWt5f6_4o22EDdB4UcK6hbWOHoV0QNZIbhFlEagf-uNg8h_eZN4o_eqDknvuzghjFyKnQI0hjHE-08/s320/numix-gtk-theme_1.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK, icon themes and wallpaper (Unity)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name="more"></a><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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/numix-gtk-theme-gs_1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Numix themes" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/numix-gtk-theme-gs_1_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK, uTouch icon themes and wallpaper (GNOME Shell)</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/numix-gtk-theme-pantheon_1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Numix themes" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/numix-gtk-theme-pantheon_1_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK theme (elementary OS Luna / Pantheon)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And speaking of Numix, if you'd like to use a dark or light variant and want to <b>support the designers</b>, you can purchase these theme variations from DeviantArt: <a href="http://fav.me/d6hds18">Numix with Dark variant</a> | <a href="http://fav.me/d5ygul6">Numix Light</a> or get the official wallpapers:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://me4oslav.deviantart.com/art/Numix-Glimpse-of-the-Future-Wallpaper-387544470">Glimpse of the Future</a> </li><li><a href="http://me4oslav.deviantart.com/art/Numix-Blooming-Spring-Wallpaper-389882686">Blooming Spring</a></li><li><a href="http://me4oslav.deviantart.com/art/Numix-Sumer-Holiday-Wallpaper-394592420">Summer Holiday</a> </li><li><a href="http://me4oslav.deviantart.com/art/Numix-Wallpaper-Glimpse-of-The-Future-Slideshow-393164006">Glimpse of the Future Slideshow</a></li></ul></div><br /><br /><h2>Install Numix GTK and icon themes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the new Numix PPA, available for Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:numix/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br />Then, <b>install Numix GTK theme</b> (supports GTK 3.8, 3.6 and 3.4) using the command below:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install numix-gtk-theme</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are two Numix icon themes in this PPA but please note that they are still in their infancy and the regular icon theme doesn't support Unity for now but it should work with GNOME Shell (the uTouch icon theme should work under both Unity and GNOME Shell). <b>Install both icon themes using the command below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove numix-utouch-icon-theme #to avoid conflicts because the package name has changed<br />sudo apt-get install numix-icon-theme numix-icon-theme-utouch</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're using elementary OS 0.2 Luna and want to use a matching <b>Plank theme</b>, install it using the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install numix-plank-theme</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, to install the <b>Numix Name of the Doctor wallpaper</b> (which you can see in the first two screenshots), copy/paste the following command in a terminal: </div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install numix-wallpaper-notd</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To use the Numix GTK or icon themes, install a tool such as <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/unity-tweak-tool-available-in-ubuntu.html">Unity Tweak Tool</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/tweak-unity-with-unsettings-008-now.html">Unsettings</a>, GNOME Tweak Tool and so on and use it to change the theme.</div><br /><b>If you don't want to use the PPA or don't use Ubuntu (and derivatives), here are direct download links:</b><br /><ul><li>Numix GTK theme: <a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Numix-GTK3-theme-360223962">DeviantArt</a> | <a href="https://github.com/shimmerproject/Numix">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://launchpad.net/~numix/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=icon&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=">Numix icon themes </a></li></ul><br /><b>Arch Linux AUR links:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-numix/">Numix GTK</a> | <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-numix-git/">Numix GTK (Git)</a></li><li><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/numix-icon-theme-git/">Numix icon theme (Git)</a></li><li><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/numix-utouch-icon-theme/">Numix uTouch icon theme</a> | <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/numix-utouch-icon-theme-bzr/">Numix uTouch icon theme (Bzr)<br /></a></li></ul>

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Slick GTK3 Theme `Numix` Updated With Dark Theme Assets

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Numix-GTK3-theme-360223962">Numix</a>, a modern, flat GTK3 theme, has recently been updated with dark theme assets, along with other tweaks and fixes. The theme is compatible with GTK 3.6 and 3.8.</b></div><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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-2c7wnv0EAXSOhORd3K7vjVyXBDmnjPb02ixeQHU72VcsQ0WT_dX8puj5XdUEBWh9Z16v9JJcu7N2Ar1kriMka6Uqz1fHeRLJjwn7UfEZxWTjrFbJ7P4E3XmM6vOm0twkI2fcrVICPlk/s1600/numix-gtk-theme-1.7-unity.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-2c7wnv0EAXSOhORd3K7vjVyXBDmnjPb02ixeQHU72VcsQ0WT_dX8puj5XdUEBWh9Z16v9JJcu7N2Ar1kriMka6Uqz1fHeRLJjwn7UfEZxWTjrFbJ7P4E3XmM6vOm0twkI2fcrVICPlk/s320/numix-gtk-theme-1.7-unity.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 theme under Unity</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Numix GTK3 is available for GNOME, Unity, Pantheon, Xfce and OpenBox and comes with a matching GTK 2 theme. Besides dark theme assets, the latest version comes with various tweaks to the Metacity and Mutter themes, changed scrollbar style in GNOME Terminal to match the dark theme, redesigned infobars and many other tweaks and fixes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The dark theme is used by default when using applications such as Eye of GNOME image viewer or Totem. In GNOME Shell (does not work with Unity) you can force all applications to use the dark theme by using GNOME Tweak Tool: <i>Theme > Enable dark theme for all applications</i>:</div><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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjkSdvzsDW1bE2EIM7ssVpLUxQ71W4c66YJ43k-OZPeN6mWwkXW9EYjRp0-jX1vfx4nBaawzpkHweW2r_YMbPjN9YzzfJ3PSSrP8yeil2XOi3RVWAWLWlsti5D9X0x5fGtON8CNonPPYk/s1600/numix-gtk-theme-1.7_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjkSdvzsDW1bE2EIM7ssVpLUxQ71W4c66YJ43k-OZPeN6mWwkXW9EYjRp0-jX1vfx4nBaawzpkHweW2r_YMbPjN9YzzfJ3PSSrP8yeil2XOi3RVWAWLWlsti5D9X0x5fGtON8CNonPPYk/s320/numix-gtk-theme-1.7_2.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 - dark theme under GNOME Shell</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Here are a few more Numix screenshots:<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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgIlkGy8Swl9dBS2mLYsJNKmri7HvIApOZhc933zRHS6Z-STf_vN6Bd_aa2pHx5fckNGcsCJMVnbJqlDMD9kZT8JyscQaHy_O5HAGfyReBZNdX3gMw96Cb_seP7N8ckV4uKwEAAP79r4/s488/numix-infobars.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgIlkGy8Swl9dBS2mLYsJNKmri7HvIApOZhc933zRHS6Z-STf_vN6Bd_aa2pHx5fckNGcsCJMVnbJqlDMD9kZT8JyscQaHy_O5HAGfyReBZNdX3gMw96Cb_seP7N8ckV4uKwEAAP79r4/s320/numix-infobars.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New infobars</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jpGfsDUm5o0nNZsaouh2wJERT3cqYDyD2skfPTYkdvdwCCEpMODVrit1htVK29Y0eAxLd7SzKiZc9CU-nLIyxZD0Ap6v7Hu8hJJwrdfjjoP6bR7XkKBp1-eAyAPAzw-sdInOBpBtMVk/s1600/numix-gtk-theme-1.7.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jpGfsDUm5o0nNZsaouh2wJERT3cqYDyD2skfPTYkdvdwCCEpMODVrit1htVK29Y0eAxLd7SzKiZc9CU-nLIyxZD0Ap6v7Hu8hJJwrdfjjoP6bR7XkKBp1-eAyAPAzw-sdInOBpBtMVk/s320/numix-gtk-theme-1.7.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 theme under GNOME Shell</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBFJYMRsdNAYXYsQFI6r-yh5_0rSzIuGD6m5lHrAAkMCia0T2aVXBUzvRGE1sAkkPYeyEVWCbHiZ_0RYt5prM_-Zik0oF3HnLqHdOS-Ff9DQyrX23PCeUJD2TE6Hp0L2pWrxVqCeN0Yo/s1600/numix-gtk-theme-widget-factory-1.7.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBFJYMRsdNAYXYsQFI6r-yh5_0rSzIuGD6m5lHrAAkMCia0T2aVXBUzvRGE1sAkkPYeyEVWCbHiZ_0RYt5prM_-Zik0oF3HnLqHdOS-Ff9DQyrX23PCeUJD2TE6Hp0L2pWrxVqCeN0Yo/s320/numix-gtk-theme-widget-factory-1.7.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 Widget Factory</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/numix-xfce.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHi0hOvy0ZJDTbXCW6Q-sgNBm_PqrpdRYsZFXo8_KvtDDgLrsA-_8zYFNmyhMGUYrgekJYI1n9ewSK23ADKzSCevO1ch3GuT3axS1zbG6XiX90ewfsDWeIT277hK_74HVJQ9RnYLqqBaY/s320/numix-xfce.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 theme under Xfce</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Numix GTK3 theme in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>Numix is available in a PPA for Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04 and 12.10. To add the PPA and install it, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install numix-gtk-theme</code></pre><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install the latest Numix theme via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-numix/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions</b>, download the theme from <b><a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Numix-GTK3-theme-360223962">DeviantArt</a></b>, extract it and copy the theme to <i>/usr/share/themes/</i> .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Once installed, you can use tools like GNOME Tweak Tool, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/unsettings-tool-to-disable-global-menu.html">Unsettings</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/unity-tweak-tool-available-in-ubuntu.html">Unity Tweak Tool</a> and so on to apply the theme.</b></div><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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5I2mUVqZ0s1lvckCfsmmzG4U6getaiWf08EMMGg60LoamUxB4VSR4V3Nls08kUJITwJArN0evDa3nNUe11bvdOp40Gt0zzfSAmJ4OVI9yh3yvAhUN1IxaaJRagOZV8CAp_es6qfvYt4Q/s1600/numix-utouch.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix uTouch" border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5I2mUVqZ0s1lvckCfsmmzG4U6getaiWf08EMMGg60LoamUxB4VSR4V3Nls08kUJITwJArN0evDa3nNUe11bvdOp40Gt0zzfSAmJ4OVI9yh3yvAhUN1IxaaJRagOZV8CAp_es6qfvYt4Q/s320/numix-utouch.png" title="Numix uTouch" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix uTouch icons; image via <a href="http://mechoslav.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/numix-utouch-is-now-desktop-ready-icon-theme/">mechoslav</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">For GNOME Shell, there's a nice <a href="http://mechoslav.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/numix-utouch-is-now-desktop-ready-icon-theme/">Numix-uTouch</a> icon theme you can use. To install it in Ubuntu, copy / paste the following commands in a terminal:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:numix-icon-theme-dev/utouch<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install numix-utouch-icon-theme</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, for a matching GNOME Shell theme, you can use <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/highly-configurable-elegance-colors.html">Elegance Colors</a> with the Numix preset.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to change the red used by the theme to something else, you can easily do this by using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/customize-gtk3-gtk2-theme-colors-using.html">GTK Theme Preferences</a>, a tool developed by +<a href="https://plus.google.com/114564489020097923600/posts">Satya</a>, who's also the main Numix GTK3 theme developer.</div>

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Highly Configurable GNOME Shell Theme `Elegance Colors` Sees New Release

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Elegance Colors, a highly customizable, chameleonic GNOME Shell theme, has reached version 2.2.0, bringing some major configuration UI changes, new theme customization options, performance improvements and more.</b> Since our last article, the theme has also got support for GNOME Shell 3.8 (it now supports both 3.6 and 3.8).</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwgzf9bkMZmLYgUylTw6xvh8ZxKeiPLK1WNM5A7T0iPiRFmNoUEITu_8iH0qiaD5K7U1myKIDfd6FKUFtBrP9WB2PtA3XJ4kJdwD2ffMYH8CnocdoCzlzP1YshwTmlgc24GIAQdB6H4qb/s1600/elegance-colors-2.20_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Elegance Colors GNOME Shell theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwgzf9bkMZmLYgUylTw6xvh8ZxKeiPLK1WNM5A7T0iPiRFmNoUEITu_8iH0qiaD5K7U1myKIDfd6FKUFtBrP9WB2PtA3XJ4kJdwD2ffMYH8CnocdoCzlzP1YshwTmlgc24GIAQdB6H4qb/s320/elegance-colors-2.20_1.png" title="Elegance Colors GNOME Shell theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Elegance Colors is a GNOME Shell theme that <b>can automatically change its colors based on the current GTK theme or wallpaper.</b> But that's not all: <b>the theme comes with a configuration GUI that lets you change most of the GNOME Shell theme elements</b>, so <b>you can basically make brand new themes using it</b>.<br /><br />The configuration GUI lets you change the panel text color, border color and width, change the gradients for the background, search entry and more, change the buttons colors, set the theme roundness, enable or disable drop shadows, set the transition duration and many other settings. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, the theme comes with some <b>default presets</b> (which change the theme look completely): Google, Numix, Pantheon, Gaia, Dark Shine, Clear, Matte, Tron Legacy and Ubuntu Phone. You can also export or import presets from the Elegance Colors Preferences. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Elegance Colors 2.2.0 since our previous article:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>supports GNOME Shell 3.6 and 3.8;</li><li>major UI changes with better organized options in the GNOME Tweak Tool style;</li><li>undo/redo abilities;</li><li>many new options to customize the theme;</li><li>the text color of highlighted elements is now automatically adjusted</li><li>5 new presets (there are 10 presets now);</li><li>you can now use symbolic colors and add custom CSS and images in the configuration file/preset (this isn't available via GUI);</li><li>performance improvements.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Note:</b> <i>don't confuse this with the GTK theme: only the GNOME Shell theme, meaning the top panel, the Activities Overview, some dialogs like the shutdown dialog and Dash are part of a GNOME Shell theme so the GTK theme won't change its colors!</i></div><br />Here are a few more Elegance Colors screenshots:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elegance-colors-2.2.0_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Elegance Colors GNOME Shell theme" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elegance-colors-2.2.0_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elegance-colors-2.2.0_3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Elegance Colors GNOME Shell theme" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elegance-colors-2.2.0_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elegance-colors-2.2.0_4.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Elegance Colors GNOME Shell theme" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elegance-colors-2.2.0_4_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2>Install Elegance Colors in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Before installing the theme, <b>make sure you've installed the GNOME Shell User Theme extension</b>. This is a part of the official GNOME Shell extensions pack which you can install it in Ubuntu using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Then, install Elegance Colors GNOME Shell theme in Ubuntu (for GNOME Shell 3.6 and 3.8, so Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 only) using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-theme-elegance-colors</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, start the Elegance Colors process, required only once (it will then start automatically when you log in):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>elegance-colors</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, use GNOME Tweak Tool to change the current GNOME Shell theme to "Elegance Colors". This can also be done via command line:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name 'elegance-colors'</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions downloads or more info, see Elegance Colors @ <a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Gnome-Shell-Elegance-Colors-305966388">DeviantArt</a> or <a href="https://github.com/satya164/elegance-colors">GitHub</a> (includes Fedora / openSUSE and Arch Linux packages).</b></div>

Highly Configurable GNOME Shell Theme `Elegance Colors` Sees New Release

Elegance Colors, a highly customizable, chameleonic GNOME Shell theme, has reached version 2.2.0, bringing some major configuration UI chang...

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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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsXgqrNq226XfvsDTcNrkXNXTMc7nmQVFLTcKG9DxzGHTUrnuIN16zefZQWmpMhqPIIW64QmI17g_jF7Ut86PpwiS-c7XL1NgOXNaysmx_b5U-FmAjQTB1MJXFOW90huk0gsQmNZn7ijB/s1600/gnome.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gnome logo" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsXgqrNq226XfvsDTcNrkXNXTMc7nmQVFLTcKG9DxzGHTUrnuIN16zefZQWmpMhqPIIW64QmI17g_jF7Ut86PpwiS-c7XL1NgOXNaysmx_b5U-FmAjQTB1MJXFOW90huk0gsQmNZn7ijB/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWdCQIiTwwfPrXw_6ALyWWtkHMDGUikEFXBLvzmup9ZGOzLT4pS88mHpaKUQFCVmXyOL4Ctz9pvfBQvGnWoVPdK0ErkJbuiyLBJ4NUl4PxmKqXAzFxvtBzwk2tpMKg90ub3EkoTOxasf34/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4BpciRI3z1oyDz4MBSE5O9BPP85FNvDyGg5ZXfc7WtBiUSIbyAjzcNWJhyNfVnGTWaDK1qk3ZxR5H0pllSmM7eTARpnMzRm8wM-co6MemfRs8Sjhj_1mX_BLCHH0h1QTDh4w1j8wcraQi/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglz2mBSe11V6xiIn3gm-W3O-rFdP_B-1yr0O9ui0hdrLQJcjJDqLXPLTisazYfvt-No73EeCLhwb6EUMBf-mqn5QkLasEkJBezBau3RwnKEUKdoBcgSfJ4JAUsE9BHIJzzCHlEUh1tqDQU/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWrFTnqQmGwOf4lRq0vU6gd77zrjZ0xsh7mbeGXWeaIvnjz1_oH-P0DGEwfb0M8hP625EJOxYsEYZdki0BBcyWf1unOC6-nmzjd_tySzbcXR9eVvYnsld-iOE-UXBkeY6oT_wZSEpeFdl/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADCftIPvvhjo0mCj2m_7tvJWR7cLWC0aIcJja-eYNWr4N6qgZt9fC5T9cKEEy0RI_l5SEqwDyW2TBlECHDQO_-oCRCM0SzkrFPhs4ottzZuYCGEemcvuCBzisk8xqjpbmnYHZ4jEYAw-f/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeGzoSe50f_ezrSEMbcLaRdadNpDldSH60VuqpZ7zQ_yxJ_mMxc_JglTCi_hZJ7mUQfkPPJjxCF_m3VOpLYq3iF9bGWjZwj-kWMXqNjPcIlxOrWYsN0SWy3zf9gkrPupigDibR7POQ-6t/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0CMkHorMEZ026kNT_JqZALOD6cZAJMf1wXWrCXFHvzZyE5cTPKhs8kf_xzyG9Y4fYUQWar3KucI9fSMb1L3yp0bV9VzHa8IhSShm4JaMDwKMSeIsw4lxe7iwkEKONnMdLIdzUnAg93EIM/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CDoEC3cXfRWNRaw2VatessighBwIC_slvxBj54LSzArwLPB-re7nbn1e9c51LCA5n8DZRBqe5SSZ7Yu0uRiZ8FMLC_rkxduZo-kyPfwC5pVlKx2L48Ijf7jieJj6XtyazF9vtKMQTlsc/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhez5oKyc1-Npz9bdOmgklHFSJmg5rd0841_0z4vCsT7Jp8Wx93EDFX_JGYTWTNgDKfgiaZmmH5e_7S3hDe6VpVj1LgBOGY5tGakkhBsYsyWN_bupFw8zZpLxUfu-ECJ-TZ1p8TNnDQftbw/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5np177e_G0k3v21ZXHRSA05nY5Fa3ydJ2M4JrOi390KvmhswH-1n63GFKP4IM-FHL5bQ-ay4W1PvtCf0I4xf4PpRYQuUeVkaWomThzuHKK9Q56H0Rxitza_oKoL8IreZCMZVvlvOBwSVJ/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5pCLHfwOtHNZBnF28TidMqz90v0_00xMeBX5pQKqMZYcCg1_wfDq3HmmG4c-trxF1PgIxCiujKazjL2bQuhCL0kLGXiPIZlE034sXsdUd6iSOA06958pfy9b3Tcl4mxLOgaBK7tMSzkp/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitw8F8GDYOxnGmCKbC3AWWv_p6zDJFkw6eCm_efJP1hQ16QCzKDir_uDFDtQzRt36Z0w74YqInEbCy7cOfACHJchANWjo21usZE4YFFGxcthCasGFMFNYgdkW3CVQZuDaJJsz1Lfbjzz9s/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWTlNx0WocM9BUgp7P6pihFTbeavhKYZ-0JEbV01RvhjE1qmP7DNV7dDqsXTcxrpRX6jFNaJF18O8DaUHYDtwKIdpEuCRvUOVJ6Gh2ehhC-AwKacSrOsOSN39dlaXQnf_CV1hcrt8Wfg2r/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYhVUmdSYbwc8bg1FzqheBNyfVB7RkBmYPrYWiUo-uRFyj8IEhRqHzz-xuuf-xiUYoB7uFAHVzA8XmZNWWEwvcX-Bu8eYmsOcoefHnNj_nb8h_e2rHqPIx-kk-aDbVMRUT0PEyScoNf-3/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54dprPZ68ziOygVZo0jsbwGrB3_QDrnMu-C0uYuJ_kaCVIeCZ17TMBBEGAHhJAGXkAvqcIrbLzVPzT1nP5pQHxaTRTrW-jGS9Cf3fdezkIPNmL28JAXOvmt1rARI3xzOwCUmgJKWN5Y7O/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghuaF36nkVGZX9ezomeRXoGa4TopEqrigFPmf4QJTaOd_niUVy6yTpPIS4WYC3Wp5X9Wde6ZKBPBGJUSpiJ_f7enEb1bhyMmLLsgHzwduH4XJUuUP7dVs5z3lQwckOijvFVn_zFn3tqjVz/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTknBlmiqWnlAqhv2W4Qh5cYa4TautAW11RqCfM5nGctH2BW8js2pTxk3pVrQdAPoBWbKkHRIXILVJz6WBYkPIEokYG3MG-kPnR5863PKRqHANxoDA48qXbQ-VflLLU3FFdVB8Xhd-6MU/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mkRnJJR7X2l5Vh5UGCqb_UNyHHtMi2cdbt_QnwfVyXo1P0KpiX3q6YjCWW1SHbOph_3h2uWA82atgg0pbHFC_zB8rk5h07VL7vNd9y0JwUDpWYkQOu_a-4jDq8lHdJNzSO4m9DqgBc3r/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLssegv9OlBuuvbXUKjjiSA4-LgPpkI-hgGD9lfq5g0KBcBXb3wfb1HJGRo2vCRLIVpRYKPLRbaS0YBjHcNAywbSprX45nA5xPw6mZxOgQIRPtO5zp6mjGs_VodDE2rUYc5KOitgp7y_Q/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvXCZl0uV1EQmcVVkSOI6umKeoJ-SkPRezwuXVXXYLRNV7qHJbBDscSGvp93sq-n9f0yJvOvyg6kRbCpQy0JWyeejTBf-NmxeNDPdBEPmqFqG6RwEELqbNvm3DDFb2cBkIX7etArP33S5/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuICP6GxQ_k14iNYUlySCc0KqUiG6aYanDwdTU8AUEkz3won_UMQz1AKEel1sFNJc1YtDxRx3QbeZIJ7jjXvrN-P4elzP83TQELqTC3_XnKSmAySqHUOzNO1bR0tx2HdXRphNEInj_RSxH/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsZe4wwFDaCFLPBM_PB0V-GmshxS-L1uaTHC1QjxN3LZ1OsFcj0YzS0yETzFEoGO5DUOzmQozjuzowApIbSKjOYBJrKRhiG1Y25kdMGgUJJSr5MbGlDhwNTum9-UmZcB6XfKFIcdar0aGO/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgksi6sdog-ZZpy-NdYfB461WDHvmdPseGeOtgb-jeFEHbFXcd9kmPdoeYFxUGdPepHzRjrJlT9oqpgBWl5Uov5UcFuQMrMEiRPPwk16fDE7yDh16orQeldGzgk8Dbley8-6zdUA6PU1ST/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuUUNbzbjah9SZiacmqOZwOy2tD7uI2A0QJ2gE054GpBph6aGYNXz5fbHg0c9Sk2Br7cNKofvlzrKhdT654_4hRbZsovDumkk6bKMvJZCOv-p-vBRNdw2HmEusXttLIUfH006W9yfoDWA/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_3Ej0FqnI0D4krxrgSNtVd0qm7NMJ-zJcyD0CHzd58ruvjhhTOyas4NnjSAG613yFv73Rqu7CnlHi14kRRS5-TAbk3IJiAIhA8o9I062rfr4wrVUmieaaiR6vT0EsCpIM9QBUeZmS38Yp/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>

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

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