GUI Stories for 2011

Transforming Any Flat Surface Into a Control Panel With Sound 53
KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available 140
Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts? 357
Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3 314
New Qt Based Desktop Environment 241
Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE 228
Qt 4.8.0 Released 90
KDE Releases Plasma Active Two 49
The Condescending UI 980
GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award 378
GNOME Shell Extensions Are Live 204
Linux Mint 12 Released Today 396
QT 5 Will Be Available For Raspberry Pi 80
Ask Slashdot: Physical Input Devices For Developers? 147
GNOME Shell No Longer Requires GPU Acceleration 237
KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Releases First Major Update 161
Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? 798
No Tab Relocation Coming For Chrome 574
Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 315
CyanogenMod Ports Android To HP TouchPad 86
Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released 455
Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour 246
Ask Slashdot: Good, Relevant Usability Book? 173
Fedora 16, OpenSuse 12.1 Betas With Gnome 3.2 117
Gut-Check Time For Windows 8, Microsoft 516
Inside Netflix's WebKit-Based UI For TV Devices 39
Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? 375
Aaron Seigo On KDE SC 5.0 — and What Getting There Means 157
The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode 403
Faint Praise From WSJ For a Linux Touchscreen PC For Seniors 59
3D Hacking Environment Links Kinect, Blender, and Metasploit 93
KDE Frameworks 5.0 In Development 227
HP Drops Price Again For Its WebOS-Based iPad Challenger 296
KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 413
World Wide Web Turns 20 Today 169
Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce 835
Apple Blocks Sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 In Australia 316
Ask Slashdot: Chromeless Cross-Platform Browser? 145
GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name 289
Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore 460
One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard 364
KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile 175
Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance 272
GUI Revolutions: From Flashing Bulbs To Windows 8 120
Mozilla Labs Introduces the Webian Shell 216
GNOME Shell Hurts Gaming Performance 232
KDE 4.7 – a First Look At Beta 1 264
Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go 591
Linux Desktop Summit Program Announced 121
Preliminary Benchmarks: Unity vs. Gnome-Shell 258
Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine 317
Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only 292
Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM 236
Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider 729
On-Screen Keyboard Maliit Demoed With Gnome 3 66
Ask Slashdot: Where Is the Universal Gesture Navigation Set? 177
5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study 468
Blender 2.57 Released — and It's Easy To Use! 221
KDE's New Projects Take On Portable Devices 110
GNOME 3 Released 353
The Case Against GUIs, Revisited 720
GNOME vs. KDE: the Latest Round 344
A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982 203
Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer 453
Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness 349
GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons 797
Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? 465
Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 403
Drupal Competes As a Framework, Unofficially 178
EFL 1.0 Is Finally Released 115
Xfce 4.8 Released 193
Interview With KDE On Windows Release Manager Patrick Spendrin 116

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