GNOME Desktop Environment and Development Platform v2.22
For a lot of us computer aficionados out there, the look of our computer exemplifies the person that we truly are. Merely looking at someone’s desktop, you get a clue about the person’s personality. Like for example, if you see a computer with race cars on its background wallpaper theme then you can safely predict he’s into action and radical stuffs, however if what you see is a desktop full of kids then you can assume that the owner is a kid at heart or simply someone who loves to be around with kids – a family oriented person. For me, the desktop has really become something that personifies my mood, when I’m craving for fun I sometimes put beaches on the background and if I want to go mellow, I’d rather use a coffee background that works as a stress-buster.
Because of this, I was really excited to learn about the whole new GNOME 2.22 the latest version of the GNOME Desktop. GNOME has really created an amazing reputation among computer users and aficionados (especially free open source software buffs – FOSS) because their products are easy to use, provide stability, and exhibit first-class internationalization. The software supplies all the necessary tools like e-mail, web browsing, groupware, multimedia, file management, and games. Moreover, it is also capable of tendering a flexible and robust platform for software developers. Since the developers of this software received their accolades mainly due to the reliability of the product, GNOME 2.22 is focused on continuing what had been started; it’s programmed with massive amounts of bug fixes and a long list of user-requested developments.
Improving Your GNOME From the Inside-Out
Due to the huge amounts of improvement seen in this latest version of GNOME, there’s no way I can go through every tiny change, however, I’ll will be providing my thoughts on those features that really caught my attention. There is a application that they call Cheese which gives the user the opportunity to take photos and creates videos through a webcam. Once you’ve taken a picture, you can apply a whole variety of effects such as mauve, shagadelic, noir/blanc, and warp (shagadelic is the bomb!). Furthermore there is also an application known as Vinagre which is a remote desktop client that helps you sustain numerous synchronized connections and can employ Avahi in order to help you locate computers running VNC server software on your local network.
To better answer the need of people all across the globe, GNOME 2.22 provides support for 46 languages which include: Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Chinese (Hong Kong), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English (US, British, Canadian), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian Bokml, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Serbian Latin, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tami, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Moreover, GNOME 2.22 gave me an opportunity to quit doing all that tiring mental arithmetic in order to find out the time in other places around the world. GNOME 2.22 is created with internationalization built into its clock. You can even tweak it by providing numerous locations from different locations around the world to see the local time and weather in that particular part of the globe.
Indeed, GNOME 2.22 (sometimes called GNU Network Object Model Environment) is everything that you need for a well-functioning computer based in the Linux operating system environment. I’m so amazed with this product that here I am writing a review about it – that shows you how much I can’t keep my admiration towards it to myself!
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