Empathy, the default IM client in GNOME, is getting a brand new feature – meta-contacts. It allows you to group together different services belonging to the same user into one.

Here is the thing that has been bugging: I use both KDE SC and GNOME. In GNOME I have given into the charms of Docky and have been using it. But KDE SC is too awesome and I would rather use the default KDE Task Manager rather than Docky. But since Docky is set to [...]

At GUADEC, Dave Neary presented the results of the GNOME Census. The results reveal some very interesting findings. Around 70% of the developers identify themselves as volunteer and 70% of the commits made in the GNOME releases are made by paid developers. Now, here is the part that has started out something like a war [...]

Today I saw a mockup of GNOME Shell and cannot believe at how much it looks like Unity, the UI which Canonical is developing for Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Have a look :

News “Bharat Bandh” Tops Twitter’s Trending Topics – Power Of 1 Billion Bored Indians Political Parties in India called for a nation wide strike, called “Bandh” in Hindi. Whether they achieve their objective or not, they managed to get the term “Bharat Bandh” as a trending topic in Twitter. Naturally people from other countries are [...]

In this article we will tell you how to reset all Gnome settings to default in Ubuntu or Fedora Linux. This method works in other standard Linux distributions too.

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The KDE network manager (KNEtworkManager) has just too many problems. So, I prefer using the GNOME Network Manager (NetworkManager) even with KDE SC. Here is what you need to do to use the GNOME Network Manager insted of the one that comes with KDE SC.

In some new builds of Google Chrome a bug has been reported which makes it the browser hang when it is used in KDE but it works fine in GNOME. In Google Chrome, the bugs results in the tab hanging after a page has been loaded. After sometime a pop-up usually comes saying some thing [...]

After about two years of development, the Gnumeric developers have announced the release of version 1.10.0 of the spreadsheet application. The first stable release in the 1.10.x series includes several changes, updates and improvements. This release removes the 65,536 row restriction on spreadsheets and includes many new functions, better OpenDocument Format (ODF) support, new statistical analysis tools, [...]

The GNOME Activity Journal is a tool to easily find and access files and other resources  in your computer. It was previously known as Zeitgeist. While the early release supports basic file management activities. It is expected to develop into a much more capable tool because of its underlying framework. In this post we will [...]

GNOME 3.0 which is due for release in September 2010 has been getting some bad press for quite some time now. We did an article about the new GNOME Shell that is making its way into GNOME 3.0 a couple of months ago. If you judge by the response we got to that article from [...]

GNOME keyring as already talked about earlier is a password and key management tool for GNOME. In this article we will tell you how to quickly reset the GNOME keyring access password.

GNOME Keyring is a place where passwords (and encryption keys) for a user are stored in an encrypted file. The user enters a global password when first accessed. But at times you may end up forgetting the password and then you have to change it. In this article we will tell you how to disable [...]

The GNOME community is considering a split from the GNU Project. The proposal for the split came from senior GNOME developer Philip Van Hoof who proposed a voting in this matter. For the voting to take place, the proposal need to first get support from 10% of the members. The whole issue started after a [...]

The Gnome Shell redefines user interactions with the Gnome desktop. It offers new ways for the user to find and open applications and documents, switch between various activities, and view incoming information such as chat messages or system notifications. You can check out this full featured screen shot tour of Gnome Shell. In this article [...]

Recently, we wrote an article giving you a visual tour of Gnome 3 Shell. If you want to experience it first hand, we will tell you what you how to do it in this article. Just to start off here is a screenshot of the Gnome 3 Shell:

GNOME 3 is the much talked about next generation GNOME that was supposed to come in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

There has been a change in the way you used setup your Root account to login to it via the Gnome startup manager when your  computer boots up, in Ubuntu Karmic. In this we will tell you how to enable root login at startup in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10.

If you are using Amarok in GNOME, then you need to check out this tip in order to set a proxy for Amarok.

With Empathy replacing the ever so popular IM client, Pidgin, from two of the most popular Linux distros, Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12, as the default IM client, it certainly is a big deal right now. Along with Empathy, the much hyped Telepathy is also making a lot of noise in the build up to [...]

In case you are wondering, the title was not a mistake. The GTK developers are actually planning to break the GTK 3.0 API intentionally. If you do not know, GTK is a toolkit for creating Graphical User Interface. GTK is one of the most popular toolkit for for the X Window System, along with Qt. [...]

Ubuntu 9.04 comes with GNOME 2.26. However, there is another very good alternative to GNOME 2.26 which is KDE 4.2. While I would have never recommended KDE before, KDE has really improved a lot with version 4.2. So, this is worth giving a try. In this article we look into the various steps in shifting [...]

In this article we will show you how to optimize the Gnome Desktop of your Linux system (say you are using Ubuntu) so that you can maximize the viewable area of your Netbook Screen.