Archive for the 'GNOME stuff' Category


Speaking of GNOME menus…

USP as in Ubuntu System Panel is a “A simple, slick alternative to the SLED menu” I just found out today.

This thingie turned out to be even more useful than SLED/SLAB menu, you should check it out.

GUADEC 2006

GUADEC = GNOME User and Developer European Conference, taking place in Vilanova i la GeltrĂș (Catalonia - Spain). From 24th to the 30th of June 2006.

Oh man, everybody on Planet GNOME is talking abut it. Come one guys, tell me it’s not so much fun, give me a break here. It makes me sad, because […]

Some extra Tango artwork

Most of GNOME applications try to use stock icons, so they match your current icon theme, giving your desktop unified look. But some apps use their own icons and other artwork that sometimes doesn’t match your default icon theme. I’m obviously talking about Tango icon theme.
I found quite a few individual “projects” from different artists, […]

GIMP looking Tango good

So if you are geek enough and you have the time and will to compile GIMP from CVS like I did, you will notice the new default Tango styled icons. The new icons give a really nice and professional look and feel to one of the best open source image manipulation program out there. I […]

Gnome option in the making

I’d just like to point out a good idea, that’s becoming a reality. GNOME has it’s own way of setting Preferences of the desktop environment, it’s the Preferences section in the Main menu. All the options can be found in number of small separate dialogs.
There is no “control center” you might say. I don’t find […]

Timed shutdown

I was doing yum update on my Fedora box and the update process was far from finished but I had to go somewhere for the rest of the day. I didn’t want to leave my computer running the whole time I was gone, I felt the need for application that will shutdown my computer in […]

A new GNOME developers forum

So if anyone is reading this, I’d like to let YOU know that there is a brand new GNOME forum available for developers and other dudes seeking for help.
There are 67 regisered users at the moment, which is not much. That’s why I encourage YOU to register if you are interested in programming, hacking and […]

What I’ve been up to

I closed the Sysinfo project, yeah that sucks, but I have a new one in progress, a Sysinfo fork written in Mono/gtk-sharp. I haven’t decided a name yet, so for now it’s code name Creu(Computer Reference Extraction Utility) and I’m pretty excited about the progress I made in a few weeks. It’s not ready for […]