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GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March 2011

Posted by timothy on from the so-little-time-until-2012 dept.

Julie188 writes "GNOME 3.0 was scheduled to be released in September but during the developers conference, GUADEC 2010 in Den Haag, the organization had to face facts: the much ballyhooed GNOME Shell really wasn't ready. The Shell is supposed to bring 'a whole new user experience to the desktop.' So now, in September, what users will see is GNOME 2.32, distributed as a new stable release. Next target date for 3.0: March 2011."

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  1. Not a huge loss... by Sheetrock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I like the looks of the new interface, but am rather concerned it might put people off by being too different from Windows.

    I've been playing around with soft lighting in the GIMP, and I think one innovation I'd like to see come up (in X-windows or wherever) would be to allow users to "tint" the whole desktop with a particular color scheme and pattern... something that can hit the windows and wallpaper evenly not unlike the sun is currently hitting my monitor, only not so bright, blurry and distracting.

    Think looking at a monitor with the faint reflection of light hitting rippling water... ahh, soothing!

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  2. What about GNOME 3? by assertation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I haven't kept up on it. What will be special about GNOME 3, particularly from an end user's perspective?