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We all know why GNOME is the most popular desktop in the enterprise. It does so much for users — they don’t have to do a thing while the GNOME daemons get things done. topyli and mc44 were trying to convince aubade of the benefits today.

I think it was a pretty noble effort anyway.

OpenOffice.org has released version 2.4 with many improvements. Congratulations to both developers and users of OO.o! I personally am in no capacity to evaluate it. I’m pretty sure it has about as many buttons and check boxes and sliders as the previous one. I still like Abiword.

The new OpenOffice.org website looks awesome though, double cheers for the clean and usable design!

Inspired by this, and also probably about my previous post, my friends nickspoon and mc44 on #ubuntu-offtopic defined a topyli-friendly design for OpenOffice.org 3.0. There’s still time to make a difference before they feature freeze!

But as mc44 says, don’t get your hopes too high :(

Currently, the CCSM (Compiz Config Settings Manager, a horrible name to begin with) looks like this:

My humble proposal for the next-generation version that would fit well into GNOME:

Thanks for your attention :)

Google has released their Google Desktop for Linux. It’s nice to see them catch up with what GNOME has had built in and nicely integrated for a long time, including features such as:

• Quick search box with integrated Web and desktop search, much like the Deskbar-applet
• Searching Gmail and Web history much like Deskbar-applet plugins for same, and of course
• Document and local email indexing and search, such as the one provided by both Meta-tracker and Beagle

GNOME still doesn’t submit your information to Google or phone home though, so if you miss such features (which can be very useful in fact,) go ahead and download Google Desktop’s brand new Linux version.