GUI Stories for 2013

X.Org Server 1.15 Brings DRI3, Lacks XWayland Support 340
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
Winners and Losers In the World of Interfaces: 2013 In Review 116
Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland 137
Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support 62
Fedora 20 Released 147
MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories 152
Mir Won't Ship Even In Ubuntu 14.04 111
WxWidgets 3.0: First Major Release in Several Years 147
OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review 222
Wireshark Switches To Qt 79
Is Choice a Problem For Android? 361
Ex-Red Hat Employee Matthew Garrett Comments On the State of XMir 88
Why iOS 7 Is Making Some Users Feel 'Sick' 261
GNOME 3.10 Released 218
Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long 729
GNOME 3.10 Is Now Properly Supported On Wayland 128
Kubuntu Announces Commercial Support 59
Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop 496
A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School 283
How Joel Spolsky Shot Down a Microsoft Patent In 15 Minutes 175
Giving GNOME 3 a GNOME 2 Look 181
LXDE Previews Port From Gtk+ 2 to Qt 136
Digia Releases Qt 5.1 With Preliminary Support For Android and iOS 86
Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race 317
Xfce, LXDE, GNOME3 Desktops Running On Ubuntu Mir Via XMir 162
Red Hat Confirms GNOME Classic Mode For RHEL 7 192
What Features Does iOS 7 Need? 262
One Week With GNOME 3 Classic 169
Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October 250
First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button 800
Google's House of Cards 115
Improving the Fedora Boot Experience 109
Windows 8.1 May Restore Boot-To-Desktop, Start Button 628
LyX Joins the Google Summer of Code 2013 70
KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making 129
Jolla Ports Wayland To Android GPU Drivers 90
Qt 5.1 Adds Android and iOS Support 81
Facebook Launches "Home" For Android 138
GNOME2 Fork MATE Desktop 1.6 Released 86
Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision 387
Wayland/Weston Gets Forked As Northfield/Norwood 252
Microsoft Mulling Smaller Windows 8 Tablets 145
GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode 267
Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing 114
GTK+ 3.8 Released With Support For Wayland 193
Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements 502
GNOME Aiming For Full Wayland Support by Spring 2014 300
Don't Write Them Off: A Palm Retrospective 102
Proof-of-Concept Port of XBMC to SDL 2.0 and Wayland 81
Facebook Introduces a Mobile-Oriented Redesign 61
KDE Releases Plasmate 1.0, A Plasma Workspaces SDK 16
KDE Launches Monthly Updates For Version 4.10 30
Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces 305
A Few Improvements for Firefox's Android UI 81
Ubuntu For Tablets Announced 148
The History of Visual Development Environments 181
Designing a Practical UI For a Gesture-Based Interface 44
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Remote Application Access? 113
Microsoft Blames PC Makers For Windows Failure 913
Samsung Amps Up Its Multi-Window Android Upgrade 229
The Mobile App Design Tail Wags the Desktop Software Design Dog 183
The Road To KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 2 89
Ibex Virtual Reality Desktop Beta For Mac Released 52
SolusOS Forks Gnome 3 Fallback Mode 162
Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity? 195
Fedora 18 Released 118
Plasma Active, Sailfish, and Ubuntu Phone Developers Discussing Common APIs 63
An Ode To Skulpture 56

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