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GNOME in Fedora 13 "Goddard"
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Introduction

The GNOME project was started in 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero aiming to provide a swift answer to Windows 95. By this time the KDE project was also on the move, but it required the installation of the QT library which didn't provided a free licence in those days.

GNOME positioned itself by redefining simplicity and usability and promoting it's goals:

Freedom - by providing a free Desktop Environment available in binary and source. By providing it's users freedom to change the source to their personal needs and share with the community.
Accessibility - to ensure that any person can use GNOME regardless of their technical skills or deficiencies.
Internationalization - providing GNOME currently in over than 160 languages.
Ease of Development - providing developers a good framework that provides good integration and allowing them to use their tools of choice for development.
Organization - providing a disciplined structure and management over the release cycles.
Support - ensuring support to numerous organizations outside GNOME.

The GNOME Project is currently under supervision of the GNOME Foundation which represents the project to organizations, corporations and society as a whole. GNOME is currently developed by volunteers and hired professionals which work for companies like IBM, Red Hat Inc., Novell, et al. GNOME sponsor list can be consulted on the GNOME Foundation web page. GNOME is a fine example of prime FOSS Engineering and better understood under "The Cathedral and Bazaar" model.

GNOME 2.30.0 is available since the $DATE and presents a whole new set of features and extra functionality; from new users to to advanced users, GNOME will make everyone's delights with a promiss of stability, ease of use and simplicity. GNOME is currently available in all mainstream Linux Distributions and a vast number of spins.

GNOME 2.30.0

GNOME provides users with an exciting experience to perform their computing tasks. From communicating with friends to work development, GNOME provides a very flexible Desktop Environment and a set of applications to fulfil their needs. GNOME 2.30.0 brings into play some changes to make users life easier, alongside with new exciting features and functionality.

One of the most awaited features in GNOME that will make many users delights is delivered by Nautilus, GNOME's File Manager. Nautilus 2.30.0 introduces a new split mode view (by pressing F3); this feature allows the user to have a far greater control over every days file system tasks, such as copying files. Nautilus 2.30.0 also comes pre-configured in browser mode, providing a more spatial control to the user.

Another exciting new feature in GNOME 2.30.0 is the new GNOME Color Manager application that will make the delights of every photographer and artist, if not everyone's delights.

Networking in Linux has evolved a lot, and GNOME provides a nice applet (nm-applet) for NetworkManager, which was initiated by Red Hat Inc. in 2005 and currently maintained by Dan Williams. NetworkManager through nm-applet deploys easy networking to GNOME users; with 2.30.0 it comes with a new design and extra functionality:

Bluetooth DUN
Broadband Signal Status
DHCPv6.

The Fedora Marketing Team provided the community with a very interesting article about NetworkManager in GNOME 2.30.0 featuring and interview with Dan Williams.

GNOME 2.30.0 also ships with ORCA, an open source scriptable screen reader which uses various combinations of speech, braille and magnification. The development of Orca has been led by the Accessibility Program Office of Sun Microsystems Inc. with contributions from many community members. ORCA is one of GNOME's promises in therms of providing accessibility to it's Desktop Environment, enabling many people to use a computer that otherwise wouldn't be able to.

Another package that brings extended functionality with GNOME 2.30.0 is Brasero, GNOME's CD/DVD burning software; in this release, Brasero presents GNOME users with PackageKit integration, improved Audio CD creating through the cdda2wave plugin and supports searches using Tracker. Brasero is currently one of the most popular CD Burning applications used in Linux.

Testimonials

Many year ago, in my first Linux I installed several desktop to chose from. GNOME did work. Software installations in GNOME got the menus and icons right at that time, and the others desktops did not. I am GNOME user ever since. I kept GNOME because it s simplicity. I need to work, I like a clean environment that enable me to do it.

Neville A. Cross, Fedora Marketing Team

I use GNOME since it's early days and I can say I'm very happy about it. GNOME has provided me a clean and productive Desktop Environment for my needs and a wide group of applications to make my life easier and enjoy a more thrilling experience with Linux. The GNOME Community should be proud on it's achievements as it is one of the most brilliant pieces of Free Open Source Software Engineering.

Nelson Marques, Fedora Marketing Team

A ideal environment is one which stays out of the way and lets me get the work done. GNOME strives to do just that and has made remarkable strikes towards putting the user first instead of technology for the sake of technology. The best thing I can say about GNOME is that I never have to think about it anymore.

Rahul Sundaram, Fedora Developer

For work I use GNOME because I usualy have there Redhat Enterprse Installations up and running, so the prefered Windowmanager for private is also Gnome. I like the fully integration and the smooth switching between work and "home" area.

Henrik Heigl, Fedora Ambassador and Fedora Marketing Team

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 = Introduction =
-[[Image:Screenshot-System Monitor.png|thumb|200px|GNOME System Monitor, Fedora 13 Beta]]
+[[Image:Gnome-nmarques.png|thumb|GNOME 2.30.0 in Fedora 13 "Goddard"]]
+The [http://www.gnome.org GNOME] project was started in 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero aiming to provide a swift answer to Windows 95. By this time the KDE project was also on the move, but it required the installation of the QT library which didn't provided a free licence in those days.
-The [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project] provides a Linux distribution named "Fedora", having scheduled it's 13th Release, Fedora 13 "Goddard", to 18th May 2010.
+GNOME positioned itself by redefining simplicity and usability and promoting it's goals:
-One of the features that Fedora 13 deploys is the long waited [http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/ GNOME 2.30.0], the Free Software Desktop Project maintained and promoted by the [http://foundation.gnome.org/ GNOME Foundation] and part of the [http://www.gnu.org GNU Project].
+* Freedom - by providing a free Desktop Environment available in binary and source. By providing it's users freedom to change the source to their personal needs and share with the community.
+* Accessibility - to ensure that any person can use GNOME regardless of their technical skills or deficiencies.
+* Internationalization - providing GNOME currently in over than 160 languages.
+* Ease of Development - providing developers a good framework that provides good integration and allowing them to use their tools of choice for development.
+* Organization - providing a disciplined structure and management over the release cycles.
+* Support - ensuring support to numerous organizations outside GNOME.
-Fedora 13 introduces to it's users a new set of features and in some cases extended functionality. Some of this features are a part of the [http://www.gnome.org GNOME Desktop] and provide a more pleasant Linux experience to Fedora and GNOME users. Amongst this features we can highlight [http://live.gnome.org/ColourManagement GNOME Colour Management] and [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NetworkManager_in_Fedora_13 NetworkManager] which presents extended features such as: DHCPv6, Bluetooth DUN and Mobile Broadband Status.
+The GNOME Project is currently under supervision of the [http://foundation.gnome.org GNOME Foundation] which represents the project to organizations, corporations and society as a whole.
+GNOME is currently developed by volunteers and hired professionals which work for companies like [http://www.ibm.com IBM], [http://www.redhat.com Red Hat Inc.], [http://www.novell.com Novell], et al. GNOME sponsor list can be consulted on the [http://foundation.gnome.org/ GNOME Foundation] web page.
+GNOME is a fine example of prime FOSS Engineering and better understood under "[http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/ The Cathedral and Bazaar]" model.
-[http://www.redhat.com Red Hat Inc.] is the official sponsor of the Fedora Project, and also sponsors the GNOME Project alongside with other Industry leaders which can be consulted in the [http://foundation.gnome.org/ GNOME Foundation webpage].
+[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/ GNOME 2.30.0] is available since the $DATE and presents a whole new set of features and extra functionality; from new users to to advanced users, GNOME will make everyone's delights with a promiss of stability, ease of use and simplicity.
+GNOME is currently available in all mainstream Linux Distributions and a vast number of spins.
-= GNOME in Fedora 13 =
+= GNOME 2.30.0 =
+GNOME provides users with an exciting experience to perform their computing tasks. From communicating with friends to work development, GNOME provides a very flexible [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment Desktop Environment] and a set of applications to fulfil their needs.
+[http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/ GNOME 2.30.0] brings into play some changes to make users life easier, alongside with new exciting features and functionality.
-= A User's perspective =
+One of the most awaited features in GNOME that will make many users delights is delivered by Nautilus, GNOME's File Manager. Nautilus 2.30.0 introduces a new split mode view (by pressing F3); this feature allows the user to have a far greater control over every days file system tasks, such as copying files. Nautilus 2.30.0 also comes pre-configured in browser mode, providing a more spatial control to the user.
-People use computers every day to complete a set of tasks for them in order to satisfy their needs, either communication, work or leisure. While 10 years ago Linux was often seen as an operative system for the "elites", nowadays it starts to be massified and it's user base is increasing.
+[[Image:Nautilus-nmarques.png|center|500px|Nautilus 2.30.0]]
-== Desktop Environment ==
+Another exciting new feature in GNOME 2.30.0 is the new [http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/ GNOME Color Manager] application that will make the delights of every photographer and artist, if not everyone's delights.
-== Communications ==
+[[Image:GCM-nmarques.png|center|500px|GNOME Color Manager 2.30.0]]
-Personal Computers are widely used for communicating with others. GNOME provides applications that will meet most users needs to accomplish this tasks in a very friendly way, either for regular users or advanced users. There are many projects that offer good integration with GNOME, being the most popular:
-* [http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ Evolution] - an e-mail, address book and calendaring application that offers outstanding functionality either for regular or more demanding users.
-* [http://live.gnome.org/Empathy Empathy] - one of the favourite Instant Messaging clients amongst GNOME users, being rivalled by [http://www.pidgin.im Pidgin].
-* [http://ekiga.org/ Ekiga] - formerly known as GnomeMeeting, a video conferencing and softphone application that also provides IM capabilities.
-* [http://www.xchat.org X-Chat] - X-Chat is a very popular IRC client which provides a very clean and easy to use interface and integration capabilities.
-Fedora and GNOME users will have no problems finding applications to handle their communication needs of every day.
+Networking in Linux has evolved a lot, and GNOME provides a nice applet (nm-applet) for [http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ NetworkManager], which was initiated by [http://www.redhat.com Red Hat Inc.] in 2005 and currently maintained by Dan Williams. NetworkManager through nm-applet deploys easy networking to GNOME users; with 2.30.0 it comes with a new design and extra functionality:
-Bellow is a simple review of some of the most popular applications for this purpose available for the GNOME Desktop in Fedora 13 "Goddard".
+* Bluetooth DUN
+* Broadband Signal Status
+* DHCPv6.
+The Fedora Marketing Team provided the community with a [[NetworkManager_in_Fedora_13|very interesting article]] about NetworkManager in GNOME 2.30.0 featuring and interview with Dan Williams.
-=== Evolution ===
+[[Image:ORCA.png|right|ORCA]]
-[[Image:Evolution.png|thumb|Evolution 2.30.0]]
+GNOME 2.30.0 also ships with [http://live.gnome.org/Orca ORCA], an open source scriptable screen reader which uses various combinations of speech, braille and magnification. The development of Orca has been led by the Accessibility Program Office of [http://www.sun.com Sun Microsystems Inc.] with contributions from many community members.
-[http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ Evolution] provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to the GNOME Desktop. Evolution has an extensive [http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/features.shtml feature list] and very accurate [http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/features.shtml documentation] besides being able to answer to most people's needs.
+ORCA is one of GNOME's promises in therms of providing accessibility to it's Desktop Environment, enabling many people to use a computer that otherwise wouldn't be able to.
-[[Image:Evolution1.png|thumb|350px|center|Evolution Mail Preferences configuration screen]]
+Another package that brings extended functionality with GNOME 2.30.0 is [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ Brasero], GNOME's CD/DVD burning software; in this release, Brasero presents GNOME users with PackageKit integration, improved Audio CD creating through the cdda2wave plugin and supports searches using Tracker. Brasero is currently one of the most popular CD Burning applications used in Linux.
-Evolution offers a very intuitive Wizard for the initial configuration that in a couple of minutes allows it's users to easily set-up their e-mail account using the most popular protocols. In addition also provides a very intuitive address book and a powerful calendaring experience. There are a wide set of plugins available, delivering extended functionality into Evolution.
+[[Image:Brasero-nmarques.png|center|500px|Brasero 2.30.0]]
-Evolution is a reference amongst e-mail clients available for Linux and ships with GNOME 2.30.0 on Fedora 13.
-=== Empathy ===
-[[Image:Empathy.png|thumb|200px|Empathy, GNOME IM Client]]
-[http://live.gnome.org/Empathy Empathy] is GNOME's default Instant Messaging Client and supports text, voice, video and file transfers over many different protocols, alongside with a very distinct list of [http://live.gnome.org/Empathy#Current_features features].
-Amongst the supported protocols we can find: Google Talk, MSN/Live, AIM, Facebook, Yahoo!, ICQ, etc.
-There is a wide offer for IM Clients, and Empathy competes directly with [http://www.pidgin.im Pidgin] which is a popular choice amongst GNOME users, also providing very similar features.
-=== Ekiga ===
-[http://ekiga.org/ Ekiga] is an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application with very an extend [http://ekiga.org/ekiga-softphone-features feature] list.
-== Multimedia ==
-=== Totem ===
-=== Rythmbox ===
-=== Brasero ===
-== Graphics Manipulation ==
-=== The Gimp ===
-=== Inkscape ===
-== System Tools ==
-=== Nautilus ===
-=== GNOME Terminal ===
-=== GNOME Control Panel ===
-=== GNOME System Monitor ===
-=== GPK Application ===
-== Production ==
-=== Gobby ===
-=== Gedit ===
-= Personal Review =
 = Testimonials =
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 * [http://ekiga.org/ Ekiga]
 * [http://live.gnome.org/Empathy Empathy]
+* [http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ Evolution]
 * [http://www.fedoraproject.org Fedora Project]
 * [http://foundation.gnome.org GNOME Foundation]
 * [http://www.gnome.org GNOME Project]
-* [http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ Evolution]
 * [http://www.redhat.com Red Hat Inc.]
+* [http://www.xchat.org X-Chat]

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Contents

Introduction

GNOME 2.30.0

Testimonials

References