Deviantart user Half-left
has designed a great theme for Gnome Shell. His latest theme
is based on the look of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Ambiance theme and is an absolute eyecandy.
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Here is a Preview of what gnome developers are proposing for the design changes and improvements in the future releases.
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.
On my past two posts, we've talked about what Cinnamon is and how to install it on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, and openSUSE. If you have not heard yet about Cinnamon please click here. Lazy to read whole post? Here's a brief description:
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.Cinnamon is a good innovation which is trying to combine the hi-tech GNOME Shell and simplicity of GNOME 2. Unfortunately, Cinnamon can not use usual GNOME Shell themes, if you force it, there will be something messy on "Application Launcher". So today, I'd like to share s new theme created for Cinnamon called "Minty".
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.
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).
For those who are using GNOME Shell must be excited with this news. GNOME shell extension website has been launched yesterday as public alpha stage. You must use Firefox with an extension - which is installed by default on GNOME 3.2 - to get an easy one-click install from the website. There is also an "on-off" button shown if you are running GNOME Shell when visiting the website.
As an alpha stage, there are some bugs and problems:
- There are some bugs that currently cause the browser plugin to not work correctly in WebKit-based browsers like Epiphany or Chrome. We will fix these bugs in subsequent releases of GNOME Shell, but for now using Firefox to access extensions.gnome.org is advised.
- Extensions that use GSettings to store user settings cannot be currently installed as a user; this limitation will be fixed for GNOME 3.4. In the mean time, extension authors should avoid the use of GSettings if they want to make their extension available via extensions.gnome.org.
- Due to a bug in GNOME Shell 3.2.1 code, the uninstall button will not work for some extensions. Disabling extensions still works, but if you want to remove an extension entirely, you'll need to manually delete it from ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions.
Ubuntu 11.10 comes with Unity as default interface, although Unity run on top of Gnome 3, the appearance and functionality between Unity and Gnome-Shell was different. In this post, I will show you some of keyboard shortcut of Unity you should know, knowing some keyboard shortcut of course will speed up your work.
Here some list of Unity keyboard shortcut you should know :
Launcher
- Hold Super – Show launcher.
- Hold Super, then 1 or 2 or 3 and so on until 0 – Opens or puts focus to an application. The number actually corresponds to the location of the icon on the launcher from top to bottom.
- Adding Shift will open a new instance of the application if it’s already open.
- Super+T – Opens the trash can.
- Alt+F1 – Put keyboard focus on the Launcher, use arrow keys to navigate, Enter launches an application, Right arrow exposes the quick lists if an application has them.
- Ctrl+Alt+T – Launch a terminal window.
Except of using screenshot (using an image), sometimes needed to capture desktop screen using video to show the way of to do something or take some demo or and illustration. there's a good news for Gnome Shell (Gnome 3) user, because they don't need to install any additional application to record their desktop activity using video.
There is build in desktop video recording tool/screen recording tool inside of Gnome shell, you can easily capture desktop activity by pressing shortcut ctrl+shift+alt+r , after pressing ctrl+shift+alt+r you will see such notification in the bottom right corner of your desktop, when you see the notification, Gnome will start record your desktop, see following screenshot.
After installing the ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, may some people feel not so satisfied with the performance or appearances (Unity), Although this situation has occurred since Ubuntu 11.04 some of ubuntu user seems still unsatisfied although Unity now runs on top of Gnome 3 platform (GTK3). Some advice to who are less satisfied with some Ubuntu change, "come on guys, all people do the change, let's change!", don't say that Gnome 2 is better ever.