The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

Trolltech developer Jens Bache-Wiig is working on a new style engine for Qt that can leverage the user's default GTK+ theme. This will make it possible for Qt applications to optionally share the ...

The latest release of the GNOME desktop environment includes a number of significant architectural enhancements and new applications that offer increased power and usability. Released after six months ...

JavaScript should be used as the main development language for writing Gnome applications, according to Gnome's development team. Gnome is a popular desktop environment and graphical user interface ...

The basic set of GNOME panel apps ranges from the practical, such as clocks and system monitors, to the mildly amusing, but apparently too traditional to dispense with, such as Fish. However, in the ...

Google still hasn’t launched Google Drive for Linux, despite repeated promises many years ago and leaked images from early this year showing a functioning Google Drive client on Ubuntu. Some ...

Linux Mint has forked and modified many GNOME and GTK applications to keep them working with the Linux distro’s custom theme support. The team is now trying a new approach that would allow more ...

Six months after the last edition, version 47 of the Gnome desktop environment has been released according to the usual schedule. Two functions of the interface that were previously marked as ...

Linux only: Recent switchers from Windows to Linux are probably used to using the Windows key to open up the start menu. To get the same thing on Linux, you'll have to tweak a simple setting instead.

As planned in the well-established development cycle, Gnome 48 will be released half a year after the previous version. The new version marks one of the more important releases of the free desktop ...