Category Archives: gnome
GNOME Design Update, Part One
As always, the GNOME design crew have been hard at work of late. We helped to drive many of the changes you can see in the last GNOME release, including a new color picker, updated application designs, new scrollbars and … Continue reading
Every Detail Matters: Objective Achieved!
We set an ambitious goal for the first round of Every Detail Matters: we said that we would aim to fix 20 UX bugs by the end of the current release cycle. That’s not an easy thing to do: seemingly … Continue reading
Looking forward to GNOME 3.4
The first beta of GNOME 3.4 came out at the tail end of last week, which means that we are roughly on track for a final release at the end of March. The beta also marks the beginning of the … Continue reading
A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
One of the things that the GNOME design crew have been focusing on recently is creating a new approach to application design for GNOME 3. We want GNOME applications to be thoroughly modern, and we want them to be attractive … Continue reading
Every Detail Matters: Half Way There!
A small Every Detail Matters update to bring sunshine and joy to your Thursday. There have been four new bug fixes since I last gave an update, which was a little under a fortnight ago. Several of these bugs focus … Continue reading
Welcome to the Post-WIMP Era
It is hard to say exactly when the WIMP paradigm came into being. The mouse and pointer (or ‘bug’ as it was originally called) came out of the work of Douglas Engelbart and his research staff at the Stanford Research … Continue reading
Every Detail Matters: An Update
Last month, I announced a new initiative called Every Detail Matters. Its goal: to make GNOME 3 really awesome by ensuring that small design details are taken care of. Each round of the initiative will focus on a particular part … Continue reading
Announcing Every Detail Matters
Today I’m announcing a new GNOME initiative called Every Detail Matters, the aim of which is to take care of all the little details and make sure that every part of GNOME 3 really shines. It will also provide great … Continue reading
