GUI Stories for 2012

Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With 72
New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups 183
Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 202
Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent 85
KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 55
After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out 259
30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 1110
Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling 149
Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 675
Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid 247
Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode 140
Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade 295
Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming 152
Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays? 234
NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish 269
Fedora Adds MATE and Cinnamon Desktops to Main Repository, Releases Beta 56
Dual Interface Mobile Devices To Address BYOD Issue 116
GNOME 3 To Support a "Classic" Mode, of Sorts 197
Apple Patents Page Turn Animation 192
GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode 378
Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads 635
Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far 289
KDE Plasma Active: the Mobile Interface That Works 70
Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent 255
Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 117
US Patent Office Invalidates Apple's "Rubber Banding" Patent 213
Bill Gates Talks Windows Future, Touch Interfaces 198
Wayland 1.0 Released, Not Yet Ready To Replace X11 455
Windows RT vs. Windows 8 Could Burn Consumers 297
KDE Plasma Active 3 Improves Performance, Brings New Apps 70
Adventures In Rooting: Running Jelly Bean On Last Year's Kindle Fire 41
Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu 396
Free Font Helps People With Dyslexia 151
KDE Multi-Monitor Control Getting An Overhaul 144
Did Metro UX Elements Come From a 2009 Demo? 68
Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 436
Design Principles Behind Firefox OS Explained 69
Shuttleworth: Trust Us, We're Trying to Make Shopping Better 255
Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission 274
Notification UI Overhauled in KDE 4.10 (And a Plan For Modernized Notifications) 67
Salesforce CEO Benioff: Future Software Will Look Like Facebook 156
Cinnamon 1.6 Brings New Features and Applets 74
Designers Criticize Apple's User Interface For OS X and iOS 484
X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old 285
Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE 306
Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's 176
GNOME 3.6 To Include Major Revisions 327
Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10 Arrives For Testing 175
The True Challenges of Desktop Linux 505
GNOMEbuntu Set To Arrive In October 157
Ask Slashdot: Is the Rise of Skeuomorphic User Interfaces a Problem? 311
Designer Jon McCann: "More Optimistic About GNOME Than In a Long Time" 235
Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden 404
GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies 432
Touch Interfaces In Cars Difficult To Use 233
You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 444
Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor 319
Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE 328
Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone 383
GNOME Developers Lay Out Plans for GNOME OS 208
CDE Open Sourced 263
Microsoft Surface, Meet Apple iSurface 201
Microsoft Drops 'Metro' Name For Windows 8 UI 356
Ask Slashdot: the Best Linux Setup To Transition Windows Users? 448
Ubuntu Unity Ported To Fedora Using OpenSUSE 128
Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones 308
Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal 230
Another Death in the Cloud As Apple Kills Off iWork 134
Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button 857
Mozilla Shows Off Junior, a Simple Browser Built for iPad 137
Windows 8: .NET Versus HTML5 Metro App Development 179
Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked 484
Adjusting Your PC Set-Up To Cope With Sudden Sight Loss 47
Splashtop Drops Windows 8 Metro Testbed Onto Android 36
X11 7.7 Released, Brings Multi-Touch Input 128
Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio 415
DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV 264
Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download 363
Fedora 17 Released 141
Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8 426
LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing 114
The 30 Best Features of Windows 470
Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore 713
Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard 171
Ask Slashdot: All-In-One PC For Kitchen? 156
Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone 362
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance 543
Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth? 424
MATE Desktop 1.2 Released 194
The Fixes That Google Chrome OS Still Needs To Make 128
Kubuntu To Be Sponsored By Blue Systems, Rather Than Canonical 99
Qt 5 Alpha Released 117
Firefox Demos Prototype Metro Interface 197
Sawfish 1.9 RC1 Released 50
GNOME 3.4 Released 147
Animating From Markup Code To Rendered Result 72
Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular 382
Ask Slashdot: Which Multiple Desktop Tool For Windows 7? 359
Amiga Returns With Lackluster Linux-Powered Mini PC 343
Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps 116
Tom's Hardware Tests and Reviews Fedora 16 and Gnome 3 101
The Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro Vs Desktop 590
For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu 370
GNOME 3.4 Preview 144
Your Next TV Interface Will Be a Tablet 210
Google Heads Up Display Coming By the End of the Year 177
The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal 142
Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? 278
WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 192
An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8 658
Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution 214
GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? 647
Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents 642
Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding 356
New Spark Tablet To Come Loaded With KDE's Active Plasma Interface 114
KDE 4.8 Released 165
Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus 449
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? 300
Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server 780
Google Launches Style Guide For Android Developers 128
Doctor Warns of the Hidden Danger of Touchscreens 242
The Semantic Line Interface 123
Google Testing Completely Revamped Look 195