If you’ve downloaded a good-looking GNOME-Shell theme in the past year then there’s a good chance that the following 25-year-old Algerian designer was the hands behind it. Reda Lazri, or 0rax0 as he is better known online, is a prolific designer. GTK, Metacity and GNOME-Shell themes; application icons, wallpapers and a multitude of mock-ups line the walls of [...]
No-one likes staring at a rubbish desktop wallpaper. Unfortunately for Ubuntu its recent crop of default wallpapers haven’t been the strongest in its seven-year history. So I decided to blend the ‘purple-ness’ of Ubuntu’s recent drapes to GNOME 3′s iconic ”Stripes” wallpaper, and that found in the recent release of KDE Software Compilation. GNOME Stripes Long [...]
Longing for the look and feel of the classic GNOME desktop in Ubuntu 11.10? Well it’s easier to achieve than you might think. Although Ubuntu 11.10 ships with the Unity desktop, and GNOME 3 in its repositories, aping the looking of the ‘old’ GNOME desktop is easy. All that’s requires is installing a few extra packages and performing [...]
The fifteen games maintained by the GNOME Games project are in need of help. With the rest of the GNOME desktop evolving around them the games developers ‘have struggled to keep up with the latest GNOME technology’. And as they fell further behind it’s become harder for the project to recruit new developers willing to bring the titles up to [...]
It’s been almost a week since GNOME launched a public alpha of their handy ‘extensions’ site – which makes adding extra functionality to the GNOME-Shell desktop a wheeze. We highlighted five handy extensions before the weekend, but those were taken from the handful of extensions that were uploaded at the time. Since then even more [...]
GNOME designer Allan Day has uploaded a new proposal for the ‘modification’ of system and application notifications in GNOME 3. Although ‘mock-ups’ are just that – mock-ups – Allan has been at the forefront of designing GNOME 3′s look and feel. His ‘Notifications Redux‘ design proposes moving notifications to the lower-left hand side of the screen. Many of the [...]
