This new “spatial” user interface presents just one window for each folder, and remembers their location and size.

Gnome 2.6 Release Notes

Now…

Nautilus features a number of user interface changes including a new split view mode and is now set to browser mode by default, replacing spatial mode.

Gnome 2.30 Release Notes

Is this progression or development in circles?

2.3. Evolution Evolves its Migration from Windows

GNOME’s e-mail and groupware suite, Evolution, has gained two important features for helping users who are migrating to GNOME from Microsoft Windows environments.

First is the ability to import Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (PST files) directly in Evolution. E-mail, contacts, appointments, tasks and journal entries are supported. Previously, the files had to be imported via a third-party utility, such as Thunderbird on Windows.

Second is support for Microsoft Exchange’s MAPI protocol. This is the protocol that Microsoft Outlook uses to communicate with Exchange. Previously, Evolution only supported Exchange’s SOAP protocol, which is not available on all Exchange servers. This support significantly improves Evolution’s integration with Exchange servers.

All I can say is WOW!

Linux users will have known that MAPI support into gnome has been on the cards for a while, but .pst access is just brilliant!!

Just like GnuPG it also requires secure memory to get the best privacy; I can never remember how to set this up, fortunately there’s an faq on gnupg.org so a quick…

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/seahorse*

and we’re done, no more error messages

I stumbled across this the other day, I’ve no idea why the fedora team would go to the effort of making a really nice theme for the lock dialogue for gnome screen saver then leave it “disabled by default”. After a quick google I found the ubuntu guys have been up to something similar, so here a quick how to enable the fedora art work on the gnome-screensaver lock screen.

To enable paste this into a terminal (NOT root, as your normal user).

gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme system


To switch it back:

gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme default


The only “downer” is that your avatar isn’t shown, but for my work laptop I prefer this theme, much cooler fedora advocate when I’m not at my desk

I’ve updated my repo for fedora 7, so.. yum install weather-wallpaper should do the trick

Edit: Hidden yum transation behind more tag.


[nick@localhost SPECS]$ sudo yum install weather-wallpaper
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
LINICKX 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00
LINICKX : ################################################## 2/2
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package weather-wallpaper.i386 0:0.1.0-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: python-pymetar for package: weather-wallpaper
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package weather-wallpaper.i386 0:0.1.0-1 set to be updated
---> Package python-pymetar.i386 0:0.12-1 set to be updated

Dependencies Resolved

=================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=================================
Installing:
weather-wallpaper i386 0.1.0-1 LINICKX 122 k
Installing for dependencies:
python-pymetar i386 0.12-1 LINICKX 37 k

Transaction Summary
=================================
Install 2 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 159 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): python-pymetar-0.1 100% |=========================| 37 kB 00:00
(2/2): weather-wallpaper- 100% |=========================| 122 kB 00:00
Running rpm_check_debug
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
—> Package weather-wallpaper.i386 0:0.1.0-1 set to be updated
—> Package python-pymetar.i386 0:0.12-1 set to be updated
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: python-pymetar ######################### [1/2]
Installing: weather-wallpaper ######################### [2/2]

Installed: weather-wallpaper.i386 0:0.1.0-1
Dependency Installed: python-pymetar.i386 0:0.12-1
Complete!

I don’t know what it is this month, but the wallpapers are flowing out of me!!

It's like, Gnome meets Mac meets Neo!

EDIT: Now available on art.gnome

Look at this, dry for ages, and 2 posts in a day!

Actually this happened a couple of days ago, my laptop crashed, and this black & stripy screen is what I got, I thought it’d make a cool gnome art

Making good use of the time she crashed.

Not too much, not too little.

I like gradients, blue and was aiming for something simple. A copy can be downloaded from gnome look here. I don’t suppose it’s good enough for art.gnome so I won’t bother

Tiz cold in here!

Frosy Grass is by far my most successful piece of gnome art; it’s got my best rating in art.gnome.org, and has a massive 3209 downloads (art.gnome = 2425 gnome look = 784).

Today, I just found something really cool, Frosty Grass is in a novel presentation video !!!!!!
Take a look at http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/58 it’s a demonstration of new rendering for gnome; fancy transparent windows, flipping desktops, all that cool stuff. As you’ll notice in the 1st few seconds of the video my art work is in the folder that gets moved,stretched and faded in the presentation !

As you can tell I’m over the moon about this, I think It’s well cool, I just wish I’d found it earlier

So here we have it… Gnome Blogger

The back grounds are transparent so you can mess with the colours, I’ve done a light and a dark one depending on your taste !

It looks like gallery2 has buggered up the screen shots , so you can see some at art.gnome or gnome-look:

• Gnome Blogger white.
• Gnome Blogger black