A Tour of the GNOME Online Desktop


	A Tour of the GNOME Online Desktop

Djiezes

11-15-2007 6:42 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/853bcb24-df17-4f76-8932-5e5ca0099e95/195930BE-6052-4EFE-87AB-B39E494083BC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/" href="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.redhatmagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/"><H1 id="content"><A class="headline" title="Permanent Link: Tour of GNOME Online Desktop" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/">Tour of GNOME Online Desktop</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/">Here’s a tour of the pre-alpha demo release of GNOME Online Desktop included in Fedora 8.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/"><P>GNOME Online Desktop is an alternate “mode” or flavor of the GNOME desktop. We’re experimenting with a few different things here. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/"><P>1. The overall concept of tightly integrating the web into the desktop, as described at <A href="http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Vision">live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Vision</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/"><P>2. Specific user interface ideas, such as a desktop sidebar called BigBoard. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/"><P>3. A set of platform components that support web integration–these can be used with any application or UI, including the more traditional GNOME desktop flavor. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/"><P>The platform components are hard to see in the screenshots, of course. But this tour shows off some of the user interface ideas. </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Vision" href="http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Vision" style="font-size: 11px;">live.gnome.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Vision"><P class="line862">At <A href="http://guadec.org" class="http">GUADEC</A> we held a talk with <A href="http://ometer.com/presentations/OnlineDesktop072007v6.pdf" class="http">slides</A>. <SPAN id="line-14" class="anchor"></SPAN><SPAN id="line-15" class="anchor"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop/Vision"><P class="line874"> <SPAN id="line-18" class="anchor"></SPAN><SPAN id="line-19" class="anchor"></SPAN></P><P class="line874">Imagine an OS that keeps all its information online, so you can use a live CD as easily as a full installation.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/195930BE-6052-4EFE-87AB-B39E494083BC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>