The K Desktop Environment community came out earlier this year with their brand new KDE 4.0 release that marked significant advancements to this open-source desktop environment compared to its KDE 3.5.x code-base. Meanwhile, the GNOME community has been living in a 2.0 cycle for quite some time with no signs of a major overhaul, but their six-month release cycles just continue to deliver new refinements and minor improvements. The plans for GNOME 3.0 just put this release out when there is significant API/ABI breakage to GNOME 2.0 / GTK+ or a major rewrite. Well, in addition to announcing Stormy Peters joining GNOME, at GUADEC 2008 they have just announced plans for GNOME 3.0!
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Support for a tabbed user interface in the Nautilus file manager is a feature frequently requested by users of the GNOME desktop environment. It’s finally here and you can try it yourself.
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One of the most commonly used application of a system administrator is a terminal, I personally use gnome-terminal. Most of the time I open 4 terminal neatly tiled together but there are times that I open a lot more, it will depend on what I am doing. I know there’s a tab feature for gnome-terminal but I prefer terminal displayed side-by-side which is faster to navigate than in tabbed mode.
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Wine allows users to run Windows programs natively under Linux without paying a dime. However, there’s a tiny problem: programs running in Wine don’t look so great. They don’t even try to fit into your native GNOME or KDE color scheme or use your preferred fonts. You could use a Windows theme, but themes make Wine run extremely slowly. Luckily, with a little configuration editing, it’s easy to make Wine applications look at lot more like the rest of the apps on your desktop.
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