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GNOME Desktop 3.10 Continues to Bring Great GTK-based Applications to All GNU/Linux Users

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Summary: A quick note addressing complaints regarding "fragmentation" and "benevolent dictators"

THE schism -- perhaps even the rivalry -- between KDE and GNOME (or Qt and GTK) often overlooks the fact that both sides benefit from the other. The more they both advance, the more applications GNU/Linux have and the more compelling platform GNU/Linux becomes for more people. With bridges between these two toolkits and desktop environments it is evident that those who use GNOME and KDE as an example of maligned "fragmentation" simply misunderstand or berate GNU/Linux using misconceptions. For choice and freedom to be more than just marketing terms we do need to have competing (and quasi-collaborating) toolkits and desktops. What's important is standards and copyleft.



"If many users are unhappy with a direction that some project takes, then it is probably that a large fork/branch will develop."Many nice applications come with the latest GNOME (either core applications [1,2] or non-core ones [3]). Developers are free to do with these applications as they please [4,5], even port them to Qt if they like it better, so complaints like [6] sort of miss the point. Developers are not in the business of pleasing every user, but they should at least allow any single individual to take the project in any desired direction. If many users are unhappy with a direction that some project takes, then it is probably that a large fork/branch will develop.

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  1. GNOME Settings Daemon 3.10.1 Fixes Memory Leaks
    The GNOME developers announced a few days ago that the first maintenance release of the stable GNOME Settings Daemon 3.10 package, a daemon run by all GNOME sessions to provide live access to configuration settings and the changes done to them, is available for download.


  2. GNOME Control Center 3.10.1 Released with Multiple Improvements
    GNOME Control Center, GNOME's main interface for configuration of various aspects of your desktop, is now at version 3.10.1.


  3. GNOME CAKE 3.10 - Fully Baked, No Bugs


  4. Learn how to compile from source Linux software with AbiWord 3


  5. Writing a GNOME thumbnailer
    How does GNOME generate thumbnails for files? It uses a collection of programs called thumbnailers, each one generating thumbnails for a specific set of content-types of files. For example, totem-video-thumbnailer generates thumbnails for video files using GStreamer; evince-thumbnailer generates thumbnails for PDFs and other document files.


  6. The Linuxsphere - Benevolent Dictators Need Not Apply
    The issue was improving Nautilus by bringing back the ability of adding color and texture to the background. For as long as I can remember, Gnome/Nautilus users have been able to set a background in this file manager.




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