Control Gnome 3 With Your Hand Gestures [Video]

You can control Gnome 3 desktop just by waving your hands in the air. Igalia has developed a technology called Skeltrack which is a Free and Open Source Software library to provide easy to use human skeleton tracking. Here is a video of controlling Gnome 3 using this technology and hand gestures.

This demo is, as usual, Free Software so you can grab the code from GitHub and tweak it to do what you want to do with it.

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Gnome 3.4 released Install through PPA

The GNOME Release Team has announced the availability of GNOME 3.4. This latest version comes six months after the last GNOME release and includes major new features, significant updates to a host of GNOME applications, and a huge number smaller fixes and refinements.

GNOME 3.4 introduces a range of new features. A new document search facility allows quick access to content stored both on your device and online. Smooth scrolling means that moving through content is slick and graceful. New application menus, which are located on the top bar, provide a useful way to access application options and actions.

Full details of the changes found in GNOME 3.4 can be seen in the release notes.

Installing Gnome 3.4 via PPA

• $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

• $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing

• $ sudo apt-get update

• $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

• $ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

 Enjoy!

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Cinnamon: Bring GNOME2-Like Layout on GNOME Shell

Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME Shell developed by Linux Mint Team that brings innovative features of GNOME Shell and simple layout of GNOME 2. Before we jump into the rest of article, please take a look at the figure below.

As you can see, Cinnamon comes with single panel contains "menu" button on the left, followed by "quick launch" icons and window list. Indicator applet and another notification icon is positioned on the right of panel. Pretty simple, huh? Application launcher is simplified too, with single large box containing installed applications shortcut, favorite applications, and session control to logout, etc.

Installing on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
Although Cinnamon is developed and intended for Linux Mint, it can be installed on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. First thing first, install GNOME Shell by typing the following command:

• sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

Once installed correctly, please download the Cinnamon installer here. Download both "cinnamon" and "cinnamon-session" packages and install them:

• sudo dpkg -i cinnamon_1.1.2_i386.deb
• sudo dpkg -i cinnamon-session_1.0.0_all.deb

Now, you may logout and select "Cinnamon" on session choices when login.
Cinnamon is in early development, so use with your own risk!

Good luck!

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Autohide GNOME Shell Top Panel Bar - GNOME Shell Extension

Autohide Top Panel is GNOME Shell Extension that lets you hide GNOME Shell top panel bar, Autohide Top Panel extension initially created by fpmurphy, this extension now available in GNOME Shell Extension website. See following video to see how it's works

Download Autohide Top Panel Extension
You can install Autohide Extension via GNOME Shell extension here, or download the extension through following links.

• Autohide Top Panel Extension  

If you're not using Ubuntu, download the extension from here, extract it and place it under /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions (or ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions).

After finished downloading, install extension using GNOME Tweak Tool then activate it by switch toggle on/off , once installed, refresh your desktop (log off the computer) to see it works.

Activate Autohide Extension in GNOME Tweak Tool

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Gnome 3 Core Application Mockups

Gnome 3 is contain of several supporting application which tightly integrated with the core OS, all supporting application start from utilities, panel, dash, widget, extension, and file browser are well collaborated to make good appearance and performance of Linux desktop.

The GNOME developers  has release mockup for some of core application that support Gnome. At glance, some of their mockup looks good, eye candy and feel modern, Is This new appearance of Gnome 3.3 or more ? well, let's see..

Here following mockup taken from Gnome website, give your opinion so that they can give a better. (click the image to get larger size).

Web Application Mockup
Impression to be conveyed is simple, clean, beautiful view of the web.

Gnome 3 Web Application Mockup

Chat Application Mockup
Chat application mockup (this design may dedicated to empathy) seen some significant differences from application that now exist, this is looks blend with the main system.

Gnome 3 Chat Application Mockup

Contacts Application Mockup
Some goals is contact application must be tightly integrate with online contacts storage, simple and easy way to view details, and provide a way to link contacts stored in the user's various web accounts, so unifying them into a single person.

Gnome 3 Contact Application Mockup

Mail Application Mockup 

Impression to be conveyed is simple, streamlined, and beautiful email client designed for GNOME 3.  hmm.. what about thunderbird, or this is thunderbird ?

Gnome 3 Mail application Mockup

Nautilus Mockup (File Browser)
Seem to be many changes that occur in Nautilus, It would be nice to have a simple and elegant replacement to show the Documents, Photo, Movie, or Music directory, from the mockup that shown, is it possible if nautilus will probably have an application like "Globus preview" by default.

Nautilus showing document directory

Nautilus showing picture directory

Nautilus showing Movie (Fullscreen)

Nautilus showing video directory

Boxes Mockup
It would be wonderful to have a simple GNOME 3 app for accessing other computer systems or images. designed by Jon McCann, Jakub Steiner.

Clock Application 'widget' Mockup
Clock application 'widget' get more complex and fitted with Word clock, Alarm, Stopwatch, and Timer. 

Some of design above looks very interesting, blend with the core system, modern and functional, we hope that all of the design above can be realized immediately. For more information, you can check @ https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/.

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