Schedule: Topaz sessions

Learn how to create a sidebar widget for the GNOME Online Desktop that displays information retrieved from an internet service. The Online Desktop provides standard ways of storing and retrieving account information and passwords and other facilities to simplify the creation of such sidebar widgets. Read more.

GNOME Mobile meeting Read more.

We've just released version 1.0 of Banshee, a music and video management app for GNOME. This will be an informal meeting where we'll talk about Banshee's code and architecture, planned features, maybe show how to create an extension, and whatever people are interested in. Read more.

Soylent is a people browser (think: Nautilus for people) which pulls together email addresses, IM names, and more from various sources to give you one-click access to chat, email, voice and video chat with anyone in your address book. This talk will detail Soylent past, present, and future, as well as how you can get involved with this exciting project! Read more.

People is a personal contact management framework that aims at unifying the contacts management by exposing its interfaces to the various applications willing to access and manipulate contacts. In this talk we will discuss the contact management problem, and why it is interesting to solve it, before demonstrating the People Framework and its use in the GNOME desktop. Read more.

As mobile and social aspects of computing have become more popular, the need for collecting, sharing and utilizing geoinformation has become more important. The presentation sheds light on what location awareness is all about. We will explain the design and motivation behind GeoClue and Gypsy and give some hands on examples of using them in applications. Read more.

A session to discuss rich internet applications and how these could be used to maximize the impact of free software development. We will discuss Moonlight, Flash, Adobe's efforts and how these help the Linux Desktop and which kind of applications we should be building. There will be a short presentation, followed by discussion by attendees. Read more.

The Telepathy real-time communications framework (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/) is a rapidly developing project to integrate messaging, presence, voice, video and collaborative functionality into your favourite device or desktop environment. This talk will focus on how to use Telepathy to make collaborative applications which can talk to each other between users' desktops. Read more.

This talk will introduce Wizbit, a GVFS-based distributed revisioning file system for the masses. Read more.

One of the major ideas behind the GNOME Online Desktop is that the traditional desktop can be enhanced with specific server-side components. Learn about the background, goals, and APIs available to interact with the Online Desktop server hosted at online.gnome.org. Read more.

‘Printing that just works.’ This is the vision of the openPrinting project. The printing dialog is an important part of that. This talk shows in this talk the complexities involved, why ‘printing does not exist,’ what is wrong with printing dialogs today and the innovation to overcome that. The latest designs and first implementation of the dialog for GNOME is shown. Read more.

The GNOME Online Desktop Data Model provides a flexible way for applications to retrieve data from online services. Learn why the desktop data model is ideally suited to the needs of an internet-connected desktop and how to use it from your applications. Read more.

Multimodal interfaces are a very popular area of research. Recent advances allow you to use speech and other methods in your everyday work increasing the productivity of the computer interaction. Free software also made a great progress in this domain last years. This talk will discuss speech-related desktop issues, demonstrate use cases for natural and very promising interaction method. Read more.

Since last year, we have completed a rewrite of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM). We will discuss some aspects of the new design and demonstrate how they facilitate a better user experience. We will also discuss some plans for how to further enhance the multi-user desktop. Read more.

The presentation will give a complete overview of PackageKit along with background material. Read more.

Lightning talks are short 5-min presentations... Read more.

PPM, OHM, Shackleton/MarcoPolo, GSmartMix and dozen of rule based daemon exist to make your devices smart, and to assist you at any time: - pause your media player when you receive a call - change the screen brightness under some condition - prevent certain task running when out of battery - set your presence status in IM/micro-blog - mute your device - ... Read more.

Various Ideas regarding user interface changes for the Desktop on the way to GNOME3. The main focus is on intelligent behaviour and act more lifelike. Read more.

A brief introduction to the current state and possibilities of PaperBox, a Tracker-based document browser, and its' usefulness on the desktop. Read more.

APOC is an infrastructure for central storage of desktop settings. It has recently been released as a freedesktop.org project. We describe the steps necessary to bring APOC to another GNOME platform (Ubuntu) and demonstrate its capabilities to manage desktop settings. Read more.

Linux is increasingly being used in portable devices with unusual hardware features. This presentation describes how ACCESS has achieved a variety of "eye-candy" features, such as GTK widgets that float translucently over an actively playing video, by modifying the kernel, X11, and the GDK/GTK rendering stack to take advantage of the three-overlay architecture in current XScale CPUs. Read more.

This session pretends to be an overview on how can we make Gtk+ a more appealing toolkit and platform for developers. Support on non X11 platforms, documentation and the role of bindings are some of the topics covered by the presentation. Read more.

The idea behind this proposal is to improve the Desktop integration in a computer network. HTTP is the most popular Internet protocol nowadays, so it is specially interesting to provide the best possible Web support in GNOME. Cherokee is a really fast, light and embeddable web framework that could help GNOME to integrate with Web 2.0 resources and to export information from its applications. Read more.