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Cairo Windows shell replacement coming soon

Windowsby Brad Linder Feb 4th 2008

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Cairo is an upcoming Windows shell replacement. What exactly does that mean? There are plenty of programs that change the way you launch programs or perform other basic functions in Windows. And Cairo started out as little more than a Windows taskbar replacement. But it's since evolved into a complete replacement for the Windows shell, with a custom file explorer, favorites manager, and live file previews.

In other words, Cairo will be a lot more than a simple Windows skinning program. The shell also changes the way you interact with your data. Cairo is still in pre-alpha, and while you can download a bunch of concept artwork, there's no working version of Cairo available for download yet. But the team plans to release milestone 1 to alpha testers soon.

[via WinBeta]

Tags: cairo, desktop, shell

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Open Source, Browser Tips

Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 now available

WindowsMacLinuxby Chris Brentano Dec 8th 2006

Firefox 3.0Hot on the heels of 2.0, the Firefox team have posted the first Alpha release of Firefox 3.0, "Gran Paradiso". Some of the new features include the use of Cairo as the graphics library, Cocoa Widgets on Mac OS X, and improved SVG specification compliance. Builds are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Before reporting any bugs, make sure to check the Known Issues list, and happy testing!

[Via TG Daily]

Update: As Stuart Parmenter points out in the comments, this is not Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1, but a build of Gran Paradiso using Gecko 1.9 Alpha 1 - the rendering engine behind Firefox. My apologies!

Tags: alpha, cairo, cocoa, firefox, gran paradiso, svg

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