GNOME Shell 3.2.1

GNOME Shell 3.2.1 is a desktop.

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Starting Development Of GNOME Shell, Mutter 3.10: With the first GNOME 3.10 development release due this week, the first GNOME 3.10 development snapshots (v3.9.1) of the GNOME Shell desktop and Mutter compositing window manager were checked in...

Freedreno Driver Now Runs GNOME Shell: The reverse-engineered Freedreno Gallium3D driver is now capable of running the GNOME Shell desktop...

Fedora Proposal To Use Cinnamon Desktop By Default: A new Fedora 19 feature proposal has surfaced, which is rather interesting but sure to spark controversy: replace the default GNOME Shell desktop with Cinnamon...

GNOME 3.x Will Bring Back Some GNOME 2 Features: Earlier this month it was decided that GNOME 3.8 would get rid of the GNOME Shell Fallback mode used for running the desktop environment in a way similar to the GNOME 2 "classic" environment while also not requiring any 3D GPU/driver configuration. Earlier today there was basically a call for forking the GNOME Classic/Fallback code so it could live on, but now it's been announced that some of the user-interface/experience elements will be brought to the GNOME 3.x world in a manner that's more easy for users to optionally enable...

Features Coming In For The GNOME 3.8 Desktop: While many GNOME Linux users are upset over GNOME 3.8 dropping its fallback mode, this next release of the GNOME desktop environment is set to offer a number of new features...

GNOME 3.x Shell Isn't Yet Primed For FreeBSD: While the GNOME 3.x Shell is working its way around to most major Linux distributions, within the BSD world, it's still mostly a GNOME 2.30 world...

Fedora Wants Your Help To Improve GNOME's Shell: The Fedora Project is seeking your help to improve the GNOME Shell and its extensions...

3.3.3 Of GNOME Shell, Mutter Try To Fix Things Up: Version 3.3.3 packages of GNOME Shell and Mutter were independently released today. These latest development snapshots in the road to GNOME 3.4 mainly try to address outstanding issues...

Cinnamon: Making The GNOME Shell Like GNOME2: Developers behind the Linux Mint project have forked the GNOME Shell into a new project they currently refer to as Cinnamon. The goal of this GNOME Shell fork is to morph the modern GNOME desktop into one that's more like GNOME 2.x...

GNOME 3.2 Release Is One Step Away: The GNOME 3.2 release is imminent, but there's one last step before going gold: testing out the release candidate. The release candidate of this desktop environment's 3.2 release is now available for everyone to test...

Intel SNA With Unity, Unity 2D & GNOME Shell: After the benchmarks a few days back of Intel Sandy Bridge Acceleration On Non-SNB Hardware, Chris Wilson of Intel who has been responsible for much of the "Sandy Bridge New Acceleration" work requested more tests, but this time to see the effect that the compositing window manager has on this new acceleration architecture.

GNOME Shell Multi-Touch Support State: On the third day of the Berlin Desktop Summit there wasn't any major announcements like the previous two days when we found out the KDE plans for Wayland, basic plans for KDE 5.0, and initial thoughts concerning GTK4. One of the talks that I attended on Monday that was of closest interest to that of Phoronix content is the work being done towards making a multi-touch GNOME Shell...