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July 25, 2008 at 20:08 · Filed under Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, openSUSE
Some interesting things happen in the GNOME world these days.
First of all John Carr posted about his progress with the synchronization utility Conduit regarding Windows CE devices. It will be a good day for Linux when we can plug in a mobile, let Conduit pop up and synchronize all your contacts/calendars/notes/files with the computer automatically.
The hazzle to configure all the opensync/msynctool command line stuff is just beyond any usability level for a regular user.
Much of the base of his work should also help in implementing SyncML stuff and make mobile synchronization hopefully just work in Linux.
Next comes GSoC veteran, James Sharpe, who has been working on my initial proposal to implement multiple desktop wallpaper support in GNOME. He has put up a video of his progress and all patches for the functionality are now in the bugtracker.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1QHs-STcHs[/youtube]
There are still open questions regarding the best UI to change the background and how this works on multi-display setups and with Compiz, but the progress is clearly visible. I just would have liked if the current background implementation would be further refactored instead of being built upon.
More GSoC gems are hiding like the media services tool to allow easy to use multimedia format conversion for any GStreamer supported format and more…
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June 30, 2008 at 17:07 · Filed under Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, openSUSE
Finally openSUSE 11 has been released and I decided to upgrade my 10.3 system to it.
Some minor annoyances and broken installation later, my system was upgraded. Way less problematic upgrade than in earlier versions…
In order to enjoy my software repository goodness I had to update a couple of packages to compile for 11.0.
Add it with zypper like this:
# zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/FunkyM/openSUSE_11.0/home:FunkyM.repo
Some gems are now available for 11.0:
evolution-statusicon (A small notification icon to show/hide evolution)
evolution-tnef-attachments (Interpret those winmail.dat attachements Outlook is sending)
gstreamer010-pitfdll (Play your WMV goodness in gstreamer using win32 .dll codecs)
sphinx (An extremely powerful search engine nicely integrated with MySQL)
Still some other packages don’t compile and I’ll look into fixing it one by one.
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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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