Intro to the New GNOME Desktop
Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Jon McCann, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters
Wed Jan 13, 07-10:00pm, 32-124
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Familiarity with Linux desktop; bring a laptop running Linux
GNOME, an open source desktop, is most commonly available on Linux distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu. The GNOME Shell project redefines the look and feel of the GNOME desktop for GNOME 3.0, to be released in 9/10, with new ways users can find and open applications and documents, switch between various activities, and view incoming information such as chat messages or system notifications. Written largely in JavaScript, on top of an OpenGL display engine, it allows for easy creation of rich visual effects.
The first half is an overview of the new GNOME Shell features and design goals. The second half shows how easy it is to get started developing, by contributing code to the GNOME Shell itself or by creating an extension for it. We will help you with building GNOME Shell from source and answer all your development questions.
Web: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell
Contact: Marina Zhurakhinskaya, marinaz@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Latest update: 14-Jan-2010
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