Author Archives: Owen

Setting Goals for GNOME

November 8, 2010 – 9:57 am

Often in GNOME, we think of goal setting is something that we can leave up to the board, or up to the marketing team. An appearance of direction that we layer on top of the what we are really working on. This is obviously backwards … everybody in GNOME should consider the goals of GNOME [...]

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GNOME Shell GUADEC wrap-up

August 2, 2010 – 2:02 pm

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, if you are a GNOME contributor, you probably know the big news from GUADEC: we decided to push GNOME 3 back another six months. I obviously would prefer if this wasn’t necessary – it feels like we’ve been working on GNOME Shell for a long time now, and [...]

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Measuring GNOME Shell Performance

May 26, 2010 – 7:32 pm

One of the big goals of the GNOME 3 Shell is to use animation and visual effects for positive good. An animation explains to the user what the connection is between point A and point B. For this to work, the animation has to be smooth – it can’t be a jerky sequence of disconnected [...]

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GNOME Shell 2.28.0 – A Preview

October 7, 2009 – 8:29 pm

Going from releasing GNOME 2.27.x unstable releases of GNOME Shell to GNOME 2.29.x unstable releases of GNOME Shell naturally involves crossing 2.28 in the middle, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to make a set of tarballs that are little more stable than the typical Friday snapshots. A good place for people to try [...]

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Splinter – patch review for Bugzilla

September 23, 2009 – 7:19 pm

OK, time to make good on my promise to write about Splinter some more and show it off. The basic idea of Splinter (hinted at in my last post) is that instead of doing patch review as a completely new system and building all the infrastructure from scratch, it should be possible to do the [...]

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