Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
GNOME 3 Edition of GNOME Journal Published
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I just pushed the button(s) to put out a new edition of GNOME Journal! This one focuses on the launch of the 3.0 version of your favorite desktop environment (assuming your favorite is GNOME). You can read these now at http://gnomejournal.org:
- "Letter From The Editor": Editor-in-Chief Paul Cutler celebrates the release, and discusses innovation, pain, and history.
- "How We Got Here: A Design History of GNOME 3 & the Shell": Daf Harries asks designers Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner the hard questions.
- "PyGTK, GObject, and GNOME 3": I interview Tomeu Vizoso and John "J5" Palmieri about PyGTK, GObject, introspection and PyGObject. What's new, what's been surprising, and what's next?
- "The Two Most Urgent Tasks: Simplicity and a Keyboard": Cathy Malmrose of Linux hardware firm ZaReason asks the GNOME community to solve the two biggest pain points she sees.
- "Fonts in GNOME 3: Cantarell, Tweaking, and Trailblazing": Nicolas Spalinger explains why Cantarell is more than just a font -- it's a symbol of a whole new design process. And he shows you how to tweak the font settings in GNOME 3.
Thanks to the authors, our interviewees, the GNOME sysadmin team, and my fellow editors! And thanks to the hundreds if not thousands of contributors who have put their energy into GNOME 3.
