GUI Stories

LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible 66
Linux Mint 21.3: Its First Official Release with Wayland Support 71
Ubuntu Budgie Switches to an Xfce Approach to Wayland 71
Raspberry Pi OS, elementary OS Will Default to Wayland 75
Linux Mint Gets 'Experimental' Wayland Support in December 57
Adobe Co-founder and Ex-CEO John Warnock Has Died 36
GNOME Devs Are Working on a New Window Management System 114
Is Wayland Becoming the Favored Way to Get a GUI on Linux? 210
KDE Plasma 6 Gets Better Default Settings to Improve Out-of-the-Box Experience 71
FSF Says Google's Decision to Deprecate JPEG-XL Emphasizes Need for Browser Choice 130
Some Apple Employees Fear Its $3,000 Mixed-Reality Headset Could Flop 123
Why is Meta Slashing Prices on its VR Headsets? 127
A 'Cruelty-Free' Circus Replaced Animals with Holograms 51
Windows 10 Users With Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Use GUI Apps 101
Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse 'Sad' and 'Empty', Leaked Internal Documents Complain 250
'Facebook Misinformation Is Bad Enough. The Metaverse Will Be Worse' 53
After Mockery, Mark Zuckerberg Promises Better Metaverse Graphics, Posts New Avatar 63
GNOME Shell is Being Ported to Phones 15
KDE's New Swipe Gesture Makes Windows 11 Look Bad 65
The Origin of the Blinking Cursor 99
Penpot, the Vector Design Web-app Taking On Figma and Canva With FOSS, Hits Beta 55
System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME 125
Nvidia's CEO Predicts a Metaverse Will Transform Our World 120
When Adobe Stopped Flash Content, It Impacted A Chinese Railroad 139
Creator of DirectX Dies at Age 55 94
Graphical Linux Apps Are Coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux 89
Emacs Developers (Including Richard Stallman) Discuss How to Build a More 'Modern' Emacs 172
William English, Engineer Behind 'The Mother of All Demos', Dies at 91 18
KDE Plasma 5.19 Released 18
Which Linux Desktop Environment is the Best? 205
Richard Stallman Joins Discussion About Changing Emacs' Appearance To Make It More Popular 153
Are We on the Cusp of a Metaverse, the Next Version of the Internet? 69
Open Source Advocates Hope They Don't Have to Fork Qt 137
KDE Plasma 5.18 Released 15
Video Leaks From Samsung's 'Artificial Human' Avatar Project Neon 39
Landmark 2.80 Release of Open Source Blender 3D With Improved UI Now Available 67
GNOME and KDE Join Forces To Co-Host Linux App Summit 64
Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? 467
KDE Plasma 5.15 Released 44
KDE Plasma 5.14 Released 41
We've Reached 'Peak Screen'. So What Comes Next? 100
Massive New 'Salesforce Tower' Light Sculpture: AI, Ubuntu, Fog, and a MacBook 63
KDE Plasma 5.13 Released 96
Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? 362
Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? 383
Linux.com Raves About New Snap-Centric 'Nitrux' Distro 137
GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers 239
A Windows 10 Alternative: Ubuntu-Based Zorin OS Linux Distro 191
cURL Author Is Getting Tech Support Emails From Car Owners 141
There's Bugs In The Windows 10 Implementation of Bash 163
Ubuntu-Based Elementary OS 0.4 'Loki' Achieves Stable Release 72
Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default Instead Of X.Org Server 151
Intel ChromeBooks Can Now Run Wine and Steam 45
KDE Bug Fixed After 13 Years 118
Apple's Night Shift May Have Zero Effect On Sleep 79
GNOME 3.20 Officially Released 193
Google Will Kill Its Chrome App Launcher For Windows, Mac, and Linux In July 77
Canonical Finally Lets Users Move The Unity Launcher To Bottom In Ubuntu 16.04 176
A California Jury Finds Copyright Infringement In an Interface 125
Amazon Backpedals On Encryption, But Fire "Still Sucks" 66
Wayland Isn't Ready For the Fedora 24 Desktop 120
Guix Gets Grafts: Timely Delivery of Security Updates 13
Fresh Wayland Experiences With Weston, GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment 133
Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability 156
Project Neon Will Bring Users Up-to-Date KDE Packages 42
Pet Wearables? But Seriously, Folks... (Video) 28
GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment 151
KDE Plasma 5.5 Has Matured Past the Point of Plasma 4 111
Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released 86
Enlightenment E20 Released With Full Wayland Support 56
Google Previews Android Studio 2.0 40
How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name 462
Happy 30th Birthday, Windows! 249
Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops 93
KDE Turns 19 115
Why Many CSS Colors Have Goofy Names 77
Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support 152
What's New In GNOME 3.18 170
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Organize Your Virtual Desktops? 125
Facebook Is Building an 'Empathy Button' 127
New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment 197
GNOME To Start Using Codenames 46
KDE Plasma 5.4 Released 43
Motorola Quickly Shows Next Moto 360 Smartwatch, 'Flat Tire' Display Lives On 44
Redefining Security Visualization With Hollywood UI Design 55
GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps 167
Windows 10 Start Menu Wins IDSA Design Award 249
KDE Community Announces Fully Open Source Plasma Mobile 44
What the GNOME Desktop Gets Right and KDE Gets Wrong 267
Speed-Ups, Small Fixes Earn Good Marks From Ars For Mint 17.2 69
Qt 5.5 Released 80
Microsoft's Skype Drops Modern App In Favour of Old-Fashioned Win32 App 186
Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements 155
An Early Look At Android M's Multi-Window Mode For Tablets 95
Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks 290
Microsoft Tries Another Icon Theme For Windows 10 236
KDE Plasma 5 Becomes the Default Desktop of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 60
How Windows 10 Performs On a 12-inch MacBook 241
KDE Plasma 5.3 Released 53
Qt Creator 3.4.0 Released 20
KDE Plasma 5.3 Beta Brings Lot of Improvements 64
The Most Highly Voted Requests In Windows 10 Feedback Pool 159
GNOME 3.16 Released 196
Windows 10 Enables Switching Between Desktop and Tablet Modes 240
Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS 166
Classic Mac Icons Archive Bought By MOMA 61
KDE Accepted To Google Summer of Code 2015 53
Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions 564
Xfce 4.12 Released 91
Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 516
Xfce Getting a New Version Soon 193
How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft 458
Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops 378
Surface RT Devices Won't Get Windows 10 158
Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming 648
Why Run Linux On Macs? 592
Ask Slashdot: Linux Database GUI Application Development? 264
KDE Frameworks 5.3 and Plasma 2.1 – First Impressions 84
Unity 8 Will Bring 'Pure' Linux Experience To Mobile Devices 125
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
GTK+ Developers Call For Help To Finish Cross-Platform OpenGL Support 89
Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever 178
GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon 268
Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5 45
The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone 347
More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 209
Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday 370
KDE Releases Plasma 5.1 60
KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity 184
Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager 170
Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS 181
Google Brings Chrome OS User Management To Chrome 68
Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? 199
Elementary OS "Freya" Beta Released 209
New Car Heads-Up Display To Be Controlled By Hand Gestures, Voice Commands 142
Digia Spinning Off Qt Division Into New Company 59
Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? 194
Mac OS X Yosemite Beta Opens 165
All Web Developers Should Have Access to a Device Lab (Video) 60
Meet Carla Shroder's New Favorite GUI-Textmode Hybrid Shell, Xiki 176
3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift 72
Lumina: PC-BSD's Own Desktop Environment 148
Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art? 408
Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta 387
KDE and Canonical Developers Disagree Over Display Server 202
Ask Slashdot: Best Management Interface On an IT Appliance? 114
Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome 240
Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update 194
KDE Releases Calligra Suite 2.8 35
Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 Spring Update, To Focus On Non-touch Devices 172
Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page 125
Ubuntu 14.04 Brings Back Menus In Application Windows 255
A New Car UI 237
Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? 389
Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? 876
North Korea's Home-Grown Operating System Mimics OS X 252
Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia? 503
Intel Dev: GTK's Biggest Problem, and What Qt Does Better 282
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
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

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