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The aristocratic desktop (part 3) : There's no tray icon in GNOME!

Le mercredi, août 5 2009, 20:17 :: advocacy,  gnome,  ubuntu,  usability,  :: Lien permanent

Part 1 : Introduction
Part 2 : Home is Desktop
Part 3 : There's no tray icon in GNOME !

Repeat after me one more time : there's no such thing as a "tray icon" in GNOME. GNOME has a notification area which has nothing to do with the Windows-ish obscenity called "systray", this little space where any application can put a little icon.

child tray

I mean, seriously, have you ever think about how completely stupid is the idea of a "tray icon"? Can you imagine how black magic it should be for a new computer user?

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Modify your application to use XDG folders

Le mercredi, mars 11 2009, 23:38 :: gnome,  hacker vaillant,  usability,  :: Lien permanent

As I previously pointed out, there's a huge need to have a clear distinction between the user preferences and the user data. This is already covered by the FreeDesktop XDG folders specification.

Cleaning the mess

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Getting Things Gnome! 0.1 - "Just 5 minutes more"

Le samedi, mars 7 2009, 18:36 :: gari,  gnome,  gtg,  hacker vaillant,  python,  ubuntu,  :: Lien permanent

GTG icon Bertrand and I are very proud to announce you the first release of Getting Thing Gnome!, a personal organizer and todo list manager for the GNOME desktop.

GTG allows you to add and edit tasks with nearly no fields at all. It support subtasks and tags that you can use the way you want. It aims for flexibility. Getting Things Gnome! goal is to adapt itself to your workflow, not the opposite. GTG also brings the concept of "workview", a display of tasks that can be done right now, right here.

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Alone

Le jeudi, février 26 2009, 19:52 :: EVA,  plume,  übergeek,  :: Lien permanent

Alone. The sensors of my crashed ship were formal : there was no lifeform on this planet. Not a single drop of water, just a giant desert of dunes. I was alone beneath a splendid sky of unknown stars and I started to name them while walking, toes in the sand. I was talking loudly, pointing my finger at those new constellations.
- Here is the VersionControlTroll ! There the TextEditorFlamewar !
Suddenly, my body was stopped and the shock sent me to the ground.
- Please, pay attention while walking.
- Sorry, I replied.
I rose and continued :
- And this one will be the UselessBlogMeme...


This is my first drabble attempt as an answer to Scott's post. The are lot of other participants but pay attention, some are cheating with their word count ! This is my current favourite but I would have replaced the last "heads" word by "hackergotchies".

Upgrading an existing Ubuntu : the kill-your-desktop machine !

Le mercredi, février 4 2009, 00:00 :: debian,  ubuntu,  :: Lien permanent

If you look in the mirror and see how was your computing world a few years ago, you would probably not believe it. Back in 2002, there was no Ubuntu, no OpenSuse, no Fedora and Mandriva was called Mandrake. Installing a Debian was a geekish thing that didn't detected anything automatically (not even the screen nor the mouse). Installing a printer was a matter of playing with the cups command line, Gnome was still 1.X (at least in Debian) and we didn't even thought about installing a webcam. In 2004 came Ubuntu and it's share of nude people. Connecting to a Wifi network required hours of command line knowledge and it was brown.

It's wonderful to see from how far we come and that, now, we can spend time to polish stuffs. And one big point that need polish is certainly the Ubuntu upgrade process.

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