Many people asked me at Desktop Summit about the work I’ve been doing recently on implementing the awesome Documents designs from Jon and Jakub; so here it is, I am very happy to announce the first release of GNOME Documents. Here’s the obligatory screenshot.

The application makes full use of the latest 3.0 platform technologies: it’s written in Javascript thanks to the awesome GObject Introspection, it uses Tracker to read and store information about the documents on the system, integrates with GNOME Online Accounts for accounts and credentials, and ships with a Tracker miner for Google Docs, powered by libgdata.

Some of the design features are already in place: searching, grid and list view, the Favorites and Shared categories, document preview, and opening in browser for Google documents.

Of course, on the other hand this is just the very first release of the project, so there’s a lot still missing and rough edges to be fixed. If you want to help, feel free to reach me on IRC!