I love quickly and quidgets just for the simple reason they lower the barrier for potential programmers to join in and start easily. But it makes me think that gtk is getting old and its showing its oldness by not being too friendly to write using. This is a major problem because lets say you [...]
Today I spent the day messing about with local packaging and manually uploading to my ppa. I had already done some ppa and packaging using quickly but its a lot easier than I thought to do it manually. So what I ended up with is jorge’s chromium google apps package but one that works with [...]
Hey all,
Id like to ask for you all to comment on the programs you all want to be suggested in the software center. I need about 50 and im open to suggestions but ill be trying out the programs to see if they are good. The kind of programs I want to hear is Gimp [...]
In a large community there is always conflict, dealing with it is the one thing that has to be done correctly. We have the code of conduct in ubuntu to give a set of guidelines to follow but I for one was on the receiving end of someone breaking those guidelines.
I was at the [...]
(Ubuntu poetry corner Read it aloud its good I think)
Twas a night before Christmas it was the 12th to be exact at 3 am beside my computer I did sat.
My ubuntu did stall, I had pondered and pondered and did a fresh install.
Swiftly I got to the the manual partition, then suddenly I [...]
Ok at the moment chrome does most of what firefox does at the moment but not much difference. I found a button in chrome that does something awesome.
What that says is “Create application shotcuts”. No its not a funny way to say bookmark it to the desktop. Its the exact same idea as mozilla [...]
I’m an optimist, specifically for ubuntu and the open source/free software world. One thing that puzzles me is OGG Theora and Vorbis. We see Wikimedia (Wikipedia, wikidictonary…etc) using OGG technologies as well as mozilla, google and opera embracing it. It is included by default in nearly all linux distributions (I say nearly all because I [...]
I downloaded chrome from the dev preview thingy and I have to say im very happy. The level of detail is bloody awesome, like they added a repo for updates and they have an option to respect the gtk theme you have installed. I never thought chrome would be that unstable since the main engine [...]
(passing on a message from Leann on the kernel team)
Hi Everyone,
This is a friendly reminder that we’re starting up Kernel Bug Day’s
again for the Lucid cycle. Don’t know what a Kernel Bug Day is? look here
This is the perfect opportunity to find out what it’s all about!
The next Kernel Bug Day will be held [...]
I was playing about with docky (its based from gnome do but its for window management) so I put it in gnome-shell for the window management. Have a look I also have the ubuntu netbook launcher too.
