New mockups for GNOME 3.0 are a doozy!
This story comes via Stefano Forenza’s blog.
The GNOME Desktop, one of (the?) most popular desktop environment for users of Linux (and my personal favourite – kind of forgot to post that I got fed up with KDE’s many little flaws shortly after proclaiming that I had been Konverted), is due to go to version 3.0 in early 2010 (currently scheduled for the 28th of April 2010). Currently developing GNOME 2.27, GNOME 3 would come where GNOME 2.30 would go.
Now, there has been a lot of talk about how the new GNOME is going to look and act. The official plan suggests hiding the File System, because after all “having to deal with a filesystem in their daily work is not what makes users happy — on the contrary, they generally just want to access their documents and not to browse their hard disk” and many more.
Now Stephano has picked up this tidbit – a mockup of GNOME 3:
The user – via his submission on the gnome-look.org website – says that the GTK theme (what draws the coloured window borders and buttons) isn’t important but how the windows act is.
Fine-tuned bits like how applications of the same type share the same colour and a window – when maximized – takes up the entire screen but contains the system tray (wifi, logged on user, any apps running in the tray) will make this really great for netbooks and touchscreen interfaces.
Just a sneek-peak of what’s coming tommorow: Firefox 3.5 will be pushed out to the while and I’ll be there to show you the new features, dramatically speed up your browser, and stop you from whiddling away your time on sites like these when you should be working!
Stay tuned!
June 29th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
It feels like a toy… or flash cards.
Doesn’t look very touchpad friendly to me.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:02 am
Well the GTK theme leaves something – alot – to be desired, but just imagine it with customisable settings and a nice theme like Dust.
August 13th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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