1. ossbarcamp – September 19th – Dublin, Ireland
GNOME 3.0
from 10,000 feet
Jan Schmidt -
(and the GNOME community)

2. Credit
(And others)

3. Background

4. GNOME 2.0 Feb 2002 6 monthly release cycle begins

5. Release Schedule February 15th 2002 – GNOME 2.0 … time passes …
March 18th – GNOME 2.26
September 23rd – GNOME 2.28
March 31st – GNOME 2.30

6. GUADEC July 2008, Istanbul: GNOME 2.30 = GNOME 3.0

7. Goals

8. Platform Cleanup

9. Remove deprecated API and library use
Bonobo/Orbit, Libgnome, Libgnomeui, LibGlade, LibGnomeCanvas, LibArtLgpl, LibGnomeVfs, LibGnomePrint, Esound
Prepare for GTK+3
GObject Introspection
Why?
Size
Easier development

10. Migration Bonobo ➔ D-Bus Xulrunner ➔ WebKit Hal ➔ DeviceKit
Glade ➔ GtkBuilder

11. Status

12. Accessibility

13. HFOSS projects (hfoss.org)
Accessibility
Bonobo ➔ D-Bus
at-spi, gnome-mag, gnome-speech
Xulrunner ➔ WebKit
WebKit Accessibility
HFOSS projects (hfoss.org)
VizAudio
MouseTrap

14. Documentation

15. Mallard http://live.gnome.org/ProjectMallard
Documentation
Mallard

16. Documentation

17. Artwork

18. Artwork
Cleaner appearance
Better layout
Updated look

19. Artwork Refresh gnome-icon-theme New default widget theme
New backgrounds
Refreshed look for the website

20. Website
&
Marketing

21. GNOME Shell

22. Goals Re-think user interaction
GNOME Panel flexibility a double-edged sword
Projectors/multiple monitors/reconfiguration
Make the “panel” smarter
Focus the UI

25. OpenGL
Hardware acceleration
Scaling, alpha-blending, etc

26. Clutter
OpenGL scene graph
Animations

27. Mutter Clutter based compositing manager
Window management logic extracted from Metacity

28. GObject introspection
Static descriptions of libraries
Remove the need to manually generate bindings

29. Javascript Experimentation friendly Familiar / accessible
No big standard library
GNOME platform is the library
Sandboxed extensions?

30. Zeitgeist

31. Automatic activity journal
Zeitgeist
Automatic activity journal

32. Goals Show Documents used in any given time period
Bookmark and Tag Documents
Search activities by tags, etc.
Get most used Documents, Tags, Event types, Applications and websites

33. Demo

34. IRC: gimpnet.org #gnome3
Get Involved
IRC: gimpnet.org #gnome3

35. GNOME 3.0