This is the best video demo of Xgl/Compiz I’ve seen yet:
Xgl Demo 57.9Mb xvid
I downloaded the free VMware Player and installed it on my work laptop this weekend. It lets you run a pre-made virtual machine. I took the browser appliance VM which is based on Ubuntu Hoary and upgraded it with apt-get to Breezy, installing some new packages to the image:
VMWare Player running Breezy Badger
Some tips [...]
I’ve been using Bloglines to read my news for a while now. Given that I use several different machines, a web-based feed reader is perfect. No matter what machine I’m at Bloglines knows what RSS feeds I’m subscribed to and what news I’ve already read. It allows me to organize by category, [...]
Continue reading about Interfaces: Bloglines vs. Google Reader
Gnome 2.12 has been released! I played around with it last night on my laptop which is running Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” and took a few screenshots.
evince, pdf thumbnailing, and gdesklets
More screenshots:
adding software
adding an item to the panel
beagle search
dragging text
nautilus browse mode
nautilus spatial tree
smeg
It only takes a second. Go vote for your favourite desktop.
GUADEC was pretty sweet this year. Okay, I wasn’t financially able to physically be there, but I enjoyed it as best I could from St. Louis, Missouri. Of the videos I watched, my favourites were
Owen Taylor’s talk on Cairo
Jeff Waugh’s inspirational “10×10″ talk
Miguel de Icaza’s keynote
Davyd Madeley’s talk on the future of [...]
I don’t work at Novell so I’m not going to post a Hula Logo image, but I am pretty excited about the announcement. We definitely need some innovation in this area. I hope in particular it solves the one bloody annoying problem I’ve had for ages: I am unable to access (read and [...]
x-chat systray plugin: I frequently miss when someone is trying to get my attention on IRC. This plugin notifies me when a highlighted term (such as my nickname) appears on a channel. It’s not perfect and really it’s silly to have an xchat icon constantly on my panel. Ideally this sort of [...]
I’ve created a patch to add printing support in Tomboy.
printing my shopping list
There was some some discussion about where to add printing in the interface. Originally I had added a toolbar button, then to avoid clutter in the toolbar, a context menu item. Personally I like Christopher Orr’s suggestion:
