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phoronix
10-07-2009, 08:00 PM
Phoronix: New Preview Releases Of Mutter, GNOME Shell

With GNOME 2.28 having been released last month, all efforts are focusing on GNOME 3.0, which is the first major overhaul of this Linux desktop environment in years. Two of the key components to the GNOME 3.0 desktop are Mutter, the new window/compositing manager, and GNOME Shell, the shell for how a user interacts with the desktop...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzU4OA
bugmenot
10-08-2009, 05:30 AM
Any screencasts showing it in action ?
cl333r
10-08-2009, 05:40 AM
Folks, does Gnome 3.0 have a file browser? Is it still Nautilus?
bugmenot
10-08-2009, 07:34 AM
Folks, does Gnome 3.0 have a file browser? Is it still Nautilus?

No GNOME 3.0 will have a special USB device that connects to your brain and you can see any file on your hard disk just by thinking about it.
cl333r
10-08-2009, 08:04 AM
No GNOME 3.0 will have a special USB device that connects to your brain and you can see any file on your hard disk just by thinking about it.

I hoped they get rid of the slow Nautilus.
StefanHamminga
10-08-2009, 08:30 AM
No GNOME 3.0 will have a special USB device that connects to your brain and you can see any file on your hard disk just by thinking about it.

I think it uses OpenCortexLayer to program your visual cortex directly, driver support is expected to be complete in currentversion+1 or you can try the binary drivers, which are either great but mess with way to much stuff in your head or will give you a splitting headache depending on what flavor you get. :p
moonlite
10-08-2009, 08:32 AM
"The stable releases will not come until GNOME 3.0, which will come next March. "

...if they decide to. They might as well post pone 3.0 to next October.