Gnome

GNU Network Object Model Environment abbrevated as Gnome which is a part of GNU Project, is an desktop enviroment, graphical user interface that runs on top of Operating System. It's intended to make a Linux operating system easy to use for non-programmers and generally corresponds to the Windows desktop interface and its most common set of applications.

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When GTK+ 3.0 meets HTML5

Written on November 27th, 2010 at 02:00 am by shredder12

Ever wondered, if you could access a system application on a browser. Well, thanks to a swedish developer, now this is possible. No! I am not joking. This is has actually been done by Alexander Larsson. In a blog post, he showed a demo of how he has successfully ported applications built on GTK+ to run on Firefox 4 using HTML5 canvas element.

Set Gmail as the default email-client on your Gnome Desktop using gnome-gmail

Written on November 3rd, 2010 at 15:06 pm by shredder12

I use Thunderbird to manage all my mail accounts on my desktop instead of using a web interface, but most of my friends don't. They use gmail and are always annoyed when clicking on a mailto link opens Evolution. I am guessing this would be the case with many of you. What if your desktop could understand that you default email-client is gmail and not a desktop based email client? Yes, this is possible with this small but very useful application, gnome-gmail.

GraphMonkey - a simple, light-weight graph calculator and plotter

Written on August 16th, 2010 at 15:04 pm by shredder12

While doing Mathematics assignment in my second semester, I had to look up for a lot of graphs/curves of various functions. I always used gplot, which is no doubt the best tool when it comes to graphs. But usually before using it I had to take a quick look at the keywords in its help guide. Until I found GraphMonkey, I always wondered if there was an even simpler application, which hardly expects you to know anything other than the equation.

The All in One Deskbar Applet

Written on July 23rd, 2010 at 03:49 am by shredder12

Have you ever gone through the items listed in the "add to panel" option? If not, then you are missing one of the finest GNOME features. It has a great number of some really useful applets. I just ran into one of them, Deskbar applet and believe me, when they say its an "all in one" tool they are not kidding. It really does almost everything one frequently needs.

OpenOffice adopts GStreamer framework to provide better audio/video support on Linux

Written on July 3rd, 2010 at 00:35 am by shredder12

Have you ever wished to embed a youtube video in an OpenOffice document or wondered if you could prepare a presentation with better integration of multimedia content? Well, the time has come, OpenOffice has adopted the Gstreamer framework to improve multimedia support on Linux.

SteadyFlow - A simple and easy to use Download Manager for Gnome

Written on November 27th, 2010 at 00:02 am by shredder12

Steadyflow is probably the simplest download manager that could exist. The good thing is its being light on the resources, quick and easy access from the panel and it could even be managed from terminal. It is not available in Ubuntu repos, you will have to install it through PPA.

Maintain a history of your copy/paste entries using Glipper, a Clipboard Manager for Gnome

Written on September 19th, 2010 at 00:58 am by shredder12

There is always something useful available in the form of gnome-applets. Earlier, I wrote about  Deskbar, that lets you handle almost anything using a single text-box. Now, its this great clipboard manager, glipper, for all of those who(like me) have done the mistakes of overwriting something important they copied and wished for a way to switch to the previous copied text.

Live Bandwidth monitoring became easy with Netmonitor screenlet

Written on August 14th, 2010 at 15:56 pm by shredder12

So, I think my search for a live network bandwidth monitor finally ended with this screenlet, netmonitor. Bmon and vnstat were working fine, but I was looking for something that can be present all the time on the screen without hindering other apps. A Screenlet was indeed the best option to go for.

Edit/Create subtitles with gnome-subtitles, a subtitle editor for GNOME

Written on July 21st, 2010 at 06:25 am by shredder12

I like keeping a collection of my favorite TV shows and Movies along with the subtitles. For a single playback, I won't mind fixing the subtitle from the player's settings, even though its frustrating most of the times, but while making a collection, you need perfect subtitles. Finding the correct one is not an easy task and neither is editing it. This is where a subtitle-editor comes in handy. Gnome-subtitles is one such tool and by far my favorite.

Next Gedit release will have a plugin for Collaborative Editing

Written on June 12th, 2010 at 18:22 pm by shredder12

We have already talked about a web-based collaborative editing tool today, Etherpad. So, after that I started looking for some native linux applications which do the same thing and came across Gobby and a new collaboration plugin for Gedit. We can talk about Gobby sometime later, I am more interested to tell you about this new plugin in Gedit .

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