Tag Archives: Gnome

Ubuntu Netbook launcher Craziness

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Shane

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

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FSF

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Shane

Recently ive heard a lot of strange mailing list banter, mainly from the Gnome marketing mailing list. Its in regard to the FSF (Free Software foundation) terms like “Free Software” and “GNU/Linux”. The FSF believes that everyone should use the … Continue reading →

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Gnome-Shell

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Shane

I have been busy the past month so I haven’t had a chance to try out the most recent builds of Gnome-Shell I looked today and I have to say its looking really slick. I took a few screenshots It … Continue reading →

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My views on KDE and Gnome

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Shane

I am a Gnome guy I have always been but I have to say I recently started being annoyed by a few little things. I looked at KDE the one in the karmic repo I dont have a clue what … Continue reading →

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Pyclutter Music Player

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Shane

Artir from the Zeitgeist team showed me how to use clutter today. Its quite interesting and got me thinking. He is making a video wall program using clutter it is quite a nice idea. He has a video of it … Continue reading →

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Nautilus

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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Gnome-Zeitgeist

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Shane

Ive started contributing on gnome-zeitgeist so I decided that ill explain it. Firstly here is the url http://zeitgeist.geekyogre.com/ and on the gnome website http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist And finally on Seif Lotfy’s website http://seilo.geekyogre.com and on launchpad https://launchpad.net/gnome-zeitgeist In a nutshell zeitgeist journals … Continue reading →

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Gnome 3.0

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Shane

I recently heard that gnome are informally planing the 3.0 release. Before I start I just want to say I love gnome. KDE is nice but gnome is just stable and very easy to use. My ideas are: 1. Making … Continue reading →

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The deskbar applet in Gnome desktop

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Shane

The deskbar applet is like a quick search feature in gnome. There are plugins now for google and yahoo search, for twitter and identi.ca, for opening up files and folders, even shutting down the computer. All of this is located … Continue reading →

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