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More Attractive Features are Coming to GNOME 3.8

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http://news.softpedia.com – Matthias Clasen reports in a blog post that the upcoming GNOME 3.8 desktop environment will receive numerous practical features designed to convert even more people to the modern GNOME desktop experience. This piece of news is part of the same blog post written by Matthias Clasen, in which he reports that the GNOME Fallback mode, or... (read more) (General)

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