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Part 1 : Introduction Part 2 : Home is Desktop Part 3 : There's no tray icon in GNOME ! Part 4 : Kill The Double Click When I started installing the best desktop possible for Marie and Jean, we were still in the GNOME... lire la suite

During the year 2005-2006, I became a decentralization whore. I realized that, with XMPP, nearly anything could be decentralized. With one exception: online payment. Paypal was highly successful but also highly... lire la suite

So far, I've used GNOME-Shell for at least 10 minutes and Unity for at least 15. And it was six months ago. Just to tell you how much I'm competent on the subject. And I didn't like them. Not at all. I've my own ideas... lire la suite

The biggest issue when talking about usability is that people tend to be used to what they get, even if sub-optimal. And because they are used to it, they will never question the validity of the current model and, worst,... lire la suite

Part 1 : Introduction Part 2 : Home is Desktop Part 3 : There's no tray icon in GNOME  Part 4 : Kill The Double Click Repeat after me one more time : there's no such thing as a "tray icon" in GNOME. GNOME has a... lire la suite

Le billet suivant est une méthode à destination des personnes souhaitant apprendre la disposition de clavier bépo, que ce soit en complément ou pour remplacer complètement l'azerty[1] (l'utilisation des deux en parallèle... lire la suite

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.... lire la suite

Part 1 : Introduction Part 2 : Home is Desktop Part 3 : There's no tray icon in GNOME! Part 4 : Kill The Double Click After I installed Ubuntu for Marie, she quickly grasped a lot of things and I discovered that she was... lire la suite

Part 1 : Introduction Part 2 : Home is Desktop Part 3 : There's no tray icon in GNOME! Part 4 : Kill The Double Click The terrific world of computers Geeks like me are used to compare operating systems and desktop... lire la suite