The developers in charge of the office environment have announced that GNOME 3 was delayed and he would come out in September 2010.

Many expect the new version with impatience, because it is the first major redesign since 2002. It incorporates, in effect, a new desktop shell with Clutter and a file manager like a diary, Zetigeist. The team has announced that version 2.3 would be available in March of next year, thereby maintaining a cycle of renewal six months. This enables engineers to refine a major release that will affect Ubuntu, which has already announced adopt Gnome 3 by next year.