GNOME/3.0

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This is a draft and work in progress

What is GNOME 3.0 and how do you get it?

openSUSE 11.2 includes GNOME 2.28 but also provides the opportunity to test what is planned to be GNOME 3.0 in order to help find and fix bugs.

The basic packages for installing GNOME 3.0 are available via 1-Click:

1-click install

How you can help

• Once you've installed the packages required, you can select GNOME 3 Preview in GDM to test.
• File bugs - submit bugs to Bugzilla using the openSUSE 11.2 product and GNOME component shortcut to the bug submission form - use [gnome3] in the Summary line.

What packages will be installed

The GNOME 3.0 stack consists of the following packages:

• gnome-shell

The GNOME Shell redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. In particular, it offers new paradigms for launching applications, accessing documents, and organizing open windows in GNOME.

• zeitgeist/gnome-zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users's activities and events (files opened, websites visites, conversations hold with other people, etc.) and makes relevant information available to other applications.

It has support for tagging items (both automatically by the data provider and manually by the user) and bookmarking items. Further, it is able to establish relationships between items based on similarity and usage patterns (this feature isn't implemented yet).

gnome-zeitgeist is a tool for easily browsing and finding files on your computer. It keeps a chronological journal of all file activity and supports tagging and establishing relationships between groups of files.

• New accessibility stack

Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface - D-Bus based implementation and GTK+ module - a general interface for applications to make use of the accessibility toolkit. Based on D-Bus with a GTK+ module based on ATK.