Category Archives: gnome3

Sandboxed applications for GNOME

Posted on July 10, 2014 by

Application sandboxing is a subject that I am passionate about. In recent months I have been involved in a design initiative to plan out how sandboxed applications would work on GNOME, and I gave a talk on this subject at … Continue reading →

Posted in gnome, gnome3 | 3 Comments

In praise of Jim Hall

Posted on June 27, 2014 by

At the beginning of this year, Jon was contacted by someone who was interested in doing user testing on GNOME. This person said that he wanted to promote usability in open source software, and had research experience. His name was … Continue reading →

Posted in design, gnome, gnome3, usability | 4 Comments

A notifications update

Posted on June 18, 2014 by

A couple of weeks ago I posted about ongoing work to redesign notifications in GNOME 3. Since then, the redesign has moved on a fair bit, so I thought that an update was in order. My previous post also generated … Continue reading →

Posted in design, gnome, gnome3 | 11 Comments

Notify me

Posted on June 5, 2014 by

Over the past several GNOME releases, we have been aiming to stabilise GNOME Shell as much as possible. We have been largely successful in this: the last major UI change was in 3.10, when we introduced the combined system status … Continue reading →

Posted in design, gnome, gnome3 | 65 Comments

Looking Forward to 3.12

Posted on March 25, 2014 by

I usually do a review of what is coming in the run up to a release. However, there have been so many blog posts about 3.12 already that I don’t feel I need to go over individual features. If you … Continue reading →

Posted in developer experience, gnome, gnome3 | 6 Comments

Popovers & You

Posted on February 26, 2014 by

GTK+ has been getting some really nice new features in recent times. Over the past few releases the list new of widgets has come to include things like ListBoxes and FlowBoxes, stacks and stack switchers, revealers and header bars. Now, … Continue reading →

Posted in design, gnome, gnome-ux, gnome3, gtk+ | 6 Comments

Help Me! (Yet another docs hackfest blog post.)

Posted on January 30, 2014 by

Over the past couple of years, I’ve tried to sit down and do some work with the awesome GNOME docs team on a number of occasions, but something always seemed to get in the way. So I was really happy … Continue reading →

Posted in design, gnome, gnome-ux, gnome3, hackfest