Shane Fagan

I was looking into backing up evolution on to ubuntu one so I tried a few things and this is what I came up with by looking at how evolution itself does it.

#!/bin/sh
rm ‘/home/shane/Ubuntu One/evolution-backup.tar.gz’
evolution –force-shutdown
rm /home/shane/.evolution/.running
gconftool-2 –dump /apps/evolution > /home/shane/.evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml
cd /home/shane && tar chf – .evolution .camel_certs | gzip > ‘/home/shane/Ubuntu One/evolution-backup.tar.gz’
evolution

Just replace shane [...]

I complained a while back about evolution being ugly but I fiddled with the UI a little. Nothing that requires any programming just changing stuff from the view options.
Here is the default evolution on a fresh install of ubuntu.

Here is evolution after I changed stuff.

I much prefer the simpler version. The only real difference [...]

Nautilus its something linux users (who use Gnome desktop) use every day. Ive started thinking about ways Nautilus can be made better since the announcement of Gnome 3.0 because its so integral to Gnome. I like it but there are a few things that I dislike.
Here are my ideas.
If the folder is large for instance [...]

I can mark a few of my points as done or at least being done as we speak.
If they replace rhythmbox and totem with banshee it would fix my point about having a unified media player like itunes or windows media player.
Gnome-Zeitgeist has file tags and makes it easier to access applications etc.
Shaking up the [...]