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Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise)

Gnome conference - breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul (Heise)
[Press] Posted Jul 23, 2008 17:34 UTC (Wed) by corbet

Heise reports from GUADEC. "Gnome co-founder Frederico Mena-Quintero concentrated on the traditional document-centred desktop. Whilst users have no problems with emails, chat or music, they often have trouble finding their documents. Rather than a folder view, he espouses a journal, which shows documents sorted chronologically. According to Mena-Quintero, the idea is nothing new, but with a sensible GUI and in tandem with functions such as tags, it could offer significant improvements for users."

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