Archive for May, 2008
May 30, 2008 at 15:49 · Filed under Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, Research
openSUSE 11 RC1 is out. Grab while hot.
A word about the man with 500 commits on a single day. I pray that our gnome-terminal loving fellows will worship chpe.
George Farris announced a beta of GFax 0.7.7 which includes a couple of my patches and supports faxing from any application using cups.
Cool, someone analyzed Terrorist tapes for a hidden message code…
I am almost done with my work project and should have some time to spare for everything else pretty soon.
Last insider for the day:
What does the GNOME control center gstreamer-properties icon tell his other icon friends? “You are so Tango and they just don’t let me!”
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May 16, 2008 at 12:57 · Filed under GNOME, Linux
GNOME wants to be more like Mac OS X.
KDE wants to be more like Windows Vista.
Is there some truth between these lines?
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May 11, 2008 at 16:55 · Filed under Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source
Wow, quite proud that my initial proposal to work on individual workspace/desktop wallpapers has become a real Google Summer of Code 2008 project. It is also available as a bug since 2001.
The lucky one to bring you the bling is James Sharp.
I hope we will see some refactoring of the splattered code related to background handling and a quick and easy context based dialog to switch wallpaper on the current desktop. Being aware of multi-head setups should of course be included. In this case, the gdk monitor API surprisingly worked way more accurate than any xrandr, xinerama, X property reading stuff for me.
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May 1, 2008 at 22:02 · Filed under Code, Flash, Open Source, Web
A pretty magnificent press release out of Adobe’s garage announcing a cooperative effort to push Flash and it’s formats into the free open source world…
It is a brilliant move and what I have been telling regarding Flash’s future since years.
I am pretty sure this is the result of some pushing by avid heads from Adobe’s ActionScript guru department who have had given hints at the need for this step in various blogs and ActionScript sources quite a while ago…
At least now, Adobe might now totally gain world domination for Flash.
Waiting for more moves like this…
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