GNOME 3.0 Shell: Overlay Mode
GNOME Shell, 2010-02-20 build
Demo of Gnome Shell as of February 20th, 2010. Shows switching between workspaces, switching between applications, navigating, ... The GPU is an onboard Intel GMA 3100 integrated graphics.
Gnome-Shell window attention messages
Short, soundless screencast showing attention-getting notifications.
GUADEC 2009: Owen Taylor, Introduction to the Gnome Shell
Owen Taylor, Introduction to the Gnome Shell The GNOME Shell is a major component proposed for GNOME 3.0. It takes over the window management and application launching roles and provides an intuitive unified experience as the user navigates between tasks and documents. The shell is built on several technologies new to GNOME: the desktop is displayed as an OpenGL scene graph using the Clutter library. It is primary coded in Javascript, and access to the GNOME platform and to low level code written in C is done using gobject-introspection, which eliminates the need for hand-written glue code. The talk is a general interest introduction to the GNOME Shell - it does not presuppose prior experience programming to the GNOME platform. The talk will start with a description of the design ideas and challenges behind GNOME Shell, and move on to a tour of the shell user interface. A high-level overview will given of the technology choices behind the shell and the architecture of the shell, with particular emphasis on how they allow rapid prototyping and sophisticated effects with small amounts of code. The talk will conclude with a look at future work on the shell as we get closer to GNOME 3.0 and how the user interface and technology of the shell can be integrated more deeply with the rest of GNOME. 2009-07-05 15:00-15:45
gnome-shell video 4/4
Fourth video shows how the applications view can be expanded. Entering a search term changes the applications results list, which can then be navigated by paging. Dragging an item from the list causes the workspaces to slide back in, returning the overlay to the default state and allowing the user to drop the item on a particular workspace. The user then moves the newly launched application to a new workspace and switches to that workspace.
gnome-shell video 3/4
Third video shows how new workspaces can be added in the overlay mode, how existing windows can be moved between workspaces, and how new applications and documents can be launched on a particular workspace by being dragged there. While clicking an item launches it and exists the overlay mode (as shown in the second video), dragging an item to a workspaces launches it, but keeps the overlay mode open.
gnome-shell video 2/4
Second video shows how the overlay mode can be used for launching new applications and opening documents.
gnome-shell video 1/4
First video starts off showing a regular workspace. It shows viewing the user menu available from the button on the right of the panel, viewing the menu for one of the tray icons, opening the overlay view by clicking on the Activities button on the left of the panel, and viewing the title of a particular window.
gnome shell on openSUSE 11.1 (gnome 2.24)
Quick video of me being able to get the current Beta Gnome Shell interface running, was unable to get it working with ubuntu
Integrating Zeitgeist into GNOME Shell
A demo of the Zeitgeist-powered features I've added to GNOME Shell so far for my GSOC 2009 project.
