Archive for the 'Gnome' Category
Monday, December 19th, 2005
I can’t believe, what I’ve just read. This post from Linus Torvalds on the gnome mailing list. What’s going on? It’s such a flame-bait.
My Gnome/Ubuntu desktop is very productive and I don’t miss a thing. Ubuntu’s success is based on the approach to keep things simple and usable which is very similar to what the [...]
Posted in Gnome, Linux, kde, opensource, ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 14th, 2005
Last week I got my desktop/server working again. A few months ago my old Pentium 1GHz said goodbye. Now a Sempron 2800+ with 1 GB RAM is doing its job. I replaced my X-less Gentoo with Ubuntu Breezy. Up and running in 30 Min. Enjoying the fresh gnome installation I thought about how much time [...]
Posted in Computer, Gnome, Linux, gentoo, ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 8th, 2005
is coming on September 7th. Read Davyd Madeley’s A Prerelease Tour of GNOME 2.12 and Citizen428’s blog entry.
It’s great to have a nice MP3 Tagger for Gnome. There was only Cantus before, but no integration of Amazon and even better MusicBrainz.
There are two more new mono application I’m using:
Desktop search: Beagle
Desktop wiki: Tomboy [...]
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Currently I’m working on a new Gnome Plazes Client. Here is a first shot.
It’s written in C# and based on the Mono framework. I’m having fun building my first Gnome app and I will of course follow the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines. Login works and there is already a tray icon and some more nice [...]
Posted in Coding, Gnome, Linux, Plazes | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 24th, 2005
Today there was a show on ZDF about the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe. They talked a lot about Gnome and Ubuntu. Here is the report and video.
Found at Murray’s Diary
Update: Also a week ago there was an article about ubuntu in the german newspaper ‘S
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
On Kfish’s blog I read something about a free media browser they would like to integrate with rhythmbox like iTunes and the Apple Music Store. This will be a great feature. Daniel and I just had a talk with someone from Apple at the MacExpo here in Cologne. But Apple’s policy will not change, the [...]
Posted in Freeculture, Gnome, Music, Networking | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
There was some rumor about Nokia’s 770 internet tablet at the GUADEC this weekend. Looks nice. Its development platform is Maemo, an application framework based on basic GNOME technologies like GTK+.
Posted in Gnome, Mobile | No Comments »