The openSUSE GNOME team has launched itself full throttle into preparations for openSUSE 11.4, which will be released with GNOME 2.32 as one of the desktops. Along the way, we decided on our focus points for the upcoming release:-
- New packages: More applications for a richer desktop experience
While there are a large number of excellent GNOME/Gtk-based apps in openSUSE already, this looked like a great time to start getting more apps catering to a variety of requirements into the GNOME:Apps and GNOME:Factory build service projects. Since deciding on this, several new packages have already been worked on and are now available in the corresponding repositories. The status of new applications is tracked here. Many of these applications will, subject to review, reach Factory and a few might even become part of the default openSUSE GNOME desktop.
You are welcome to request the packaging of applications you have found particularly useful or impressive, and if you are in earnest, why not join us at #opensuse-gnome and start packaging them for yourself? Requests for new applications may be made through comments here, on the mailing-list or at irc, but the best way to do this would be to open a feature request and tag it as “gnome-wishlist-packages”.
- The GNOME Pet Peeves Project: Dealing with minor irritants on the desktop
I bet there have been times when you have come across a little but pesky irritant or a usability issue that left you feeling “this could have been done so much better…” We decided to track down such issues and try to have them fixed before the next release. Thus the GNOME Pet Peeves Project, where we note and research such issues, their workarounds and solutions. As you can see, we have located a few of these already, and started working on them.
We invite you to report your pet peeve with GNOME through comments here or otherwise. Of course, the good Samaritan is more than welcome to help with the process of solving such problems as well by providing fixes, pointing to existing upstream patches or even nudging upstream developers at bugzilla or irc, to ensure a more polished GNOME desktop on openSUSE.
- There is much to celebrate about, in GNOME-land come March 2011… and we hope to join the party, as well, with an (unofficial) GNOME3 take on openSUSE 11.4 to be released on the GNOME3 release day!
That and more… indeed there is so much to look forward to, with the launch of 11.4, from the GNOME desktop user’s perspective. With your feedback and other contribution, you can help shape that perspective while also having a lot of fun.
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I recently switched to lxde after using gnome for months under different distros.
Could you confirm the release date of OpenSuse gnome edition? It might well entice me back to gnome if it’s more polished as the article suggests.
openSUSE 11.4 is slated for release on March 10, 2011.
In the meanwhile why not try out an openSUSE 11.3 GNOME LiveCD and let us know what improvements, etc. we can make?
I´d like to sse Pidgin Embedded Video a GTK plugin for Pidgin
more here – http://www.ubuntugeek.com/watch-videos-directly-into-your-pidgin-conversation.html
Guys, I think the Gnome version is great as is –! I just fired up the Ubuntu 10.10 beta and think it pales in comparison to the mature, clean look of OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome. At any rate, from my perspective probably making it easier to customize the slab would be a good idea. Other than that, I think as long as you lads stick to the upstream version of Gnome and add a bit of the ol’ OpenSUSE style to it things will be great. Thanks for your hard work!
yeah, customize of slab is an great idea, because it doens’t give me any benefit when comparing traditional gnome menu.