At the last Gnome marketing meeting an interesting idea came up. That was to have a ubuntu loco style release party for Gnome 3 this fall. The proposal is here, im sure sponsors are welcome.
I have to stress its a cross community effort so Ubuntu, Fedora, Open Suse, Open Solaris, Mint, Debian….etc everyone who uses [...]
Some people are slightly confused about what Gnome 3 actually is. The biggest myth is
Gnome Shell == Gnome 3
Actually its very far from the truth, in fact there is a lot of work that has nothing to do with user interface.
The second biggest myth is
Gnome will drop all support for Gnome-Panel
Actually it will be fairly [...]
I blogged about zeitgeist a lot back last year so I thought id give a little blog post about gnome activity journal(formally gnome-zeitgeist) the old version looked a little bad but seif and the guys have done an awesome job with the new version. Ive been following the progress of the project and the code [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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.
Ive done a good bit of work recently on parental control to get it ready for the UDS. It currently works but it takes a little bit of effort (you have to start the daemon in command line). Im going to be making it simpler to use next. Ive also made some more changes to [...]
I have the first version of the GUI for my parental control program. I need 6 strings translated for the moment so 5 minutes should do it. https://translations.launchpad.net/parental-control
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps.
I thought id add an update about the progress of the parental control system im designing. Thanks to Seif the backend is working (ish). I started making a blacklist editor so people can add rules to the system. I decided to use quickly (even though im still crap at pygtk).
Quickly is great though most of [...]
I had an insane idea. I thought how about installing the Ubuntu netbook remix launcher and run it inside Gnome-Shell. It turns out that it looks awesome. I love it
