Letter From The Editor

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Editor-in-Chief Paul Cutler celebrates GNOME 3.0’s release, and discusses innovation, pain, and history.
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How We Got Here: Part I of a Design History of GNOME 3 & the Shell

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Daf Harries asks Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner: what was the seed that got GNOME 3 going? How does modularity cause problems? And how do new contributors learn a project’s design philosophy?
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How We Got Here: Part II of a Design History of GNOME 3 & the Shell

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Daf Harries continues his interview with Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner. Should we be treating code and design contributions the same, or differently? What pitfalls from GNOME 2 were designers trying to avoid? How do we deal with community indecisiveness?
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PyGTK, GObject, and GNOME 3

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Sumana Harihareswara interviews Tomeu Vizoso and John “J5” Palmieri about PyGTK, GObject, introspection and PyGObject. What’s new, what’s been hard, and what’s next?
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The Two Most Urgent Tasks: Simplicity and a Keyboard

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Cathy Malmrose of Linux hardware firm ZaReason asks the GNOME community to solve the two biggest pain points she sees.
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Fonts in GNOME 3: Cantarell, Tweaking, and Trailblazing

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Nicolas Spalinger explains why Cantarell is more than just a font—it’s a symbol of a whole new design process. And he shows you how to tweak the font settings in GNOME 3.
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