I’ve just noticed this in the Gnome 2.26 Release Notes…

2.3. Evolution Evolves its Migration from Windows

GNOME’s e-mail and groupware suite, Evolution, has gained two important features for helping users who are migrating to GNOME from Microsoft Windows environments.

First is the ability to import Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (PST files) directly in Evolution. E-mail, contacts, appointments, tasks and journal entries are supported. Previously, the files had to be imported via a third-party utility, such as Thunderbird on Windows.

Second is support for Microsoft Exchange’s MAPI protocol. This is the protocol that Microsoft Outlook uses to communicate with Exchange. Previously, Evolution only supported Exchange’s SOAP protocol, which is not available on all Exchange servers. This support significantly improves Evolution’s integration with Exchange servers.

All I can say is WOW!

Linux users will have known that MAPI support into gnome has been on the cards for a while, but .pst access is just brilliant!!

Seahorse is a cracking GnuPG implementation for Gnome.

Just like GnuPG it also requires secure memory to get the best privacy; I can never remember how to set this up, fortunately there’s an faq on gnupg.org so a quick…

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/seahorse*

and we’re done, no more error messages

I stumbled across this the other day, I’ve no idea why the fedora team would go to the effort of making a really nice theme for the lock dialogue for gnome screen saver then leave it “disabled by default”. After a quick google I found the ubuntu guys have been up to something similar, so here a quick how to enable the fedora art work on the gnome-screensaver lock screen.

To enable paste this into a terminal (NOT root, as your normal user).

gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme system


To switch it back:

gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme default


The only “downer” is that your avatar isn’t shown, but for my work laptop I prefer this theme, much cooler fedora advocate when I’m not at my desk

It’s not often I blog twice in a day, but after seeing this post I just had to see if I could build a rpm for fedora 7.

I’ve updated my repo for fedora 7, so.. yum install weather-wallpaper should do the trick

Edit: Hidden yum transation behind more tag.

(more…)

…or Gnome Matrix 3… this would be 2! It makes sense if you’re an art.gnome fan!

I don’t know what it is this month, but the wallpapers are flowing out of me!!

It's like, Gnome meets Mac meets Neo!

EDIT: Now available on art.gnome

EDIT: Also avilable here on art.gnome.org

Look at this, dry for ages, and 2 posts in a day!

Actually this happened a couple of days ago, my laptop crashed, and this black & stripy screen is what I got, I thought it’d make a cool gnome art

Making good use of the time she crashed.

It’s been a while since I’ve done some art, so this eve’ I felt like a dabble, this is what I came up with…

Not too much, not too little.

I like gradients, blue and was aiming for something simple. A copy can be downloaded from gnome look here. I don’t suppose it’s good enough for art.gnome so I won’t bother

Tiz cold in here!

Frosy Grass is by far my most successful piece of gnome art; it’s got my best rating in art.gnome.org, and has a massive 3209 downloads (art.gnome = 2425 gnome look = 784).

Today, I just found something really cool, Frosty Grass is in a novel presentation video !!!!!!
Take a look at http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/58 it’s a demonstration of new rendering for gnome; fancy transparent windows, flipping desktops, all that cool stuff. As you’ll notice in the 1st few seconds of the video my art work is in the folder that gets moved,stretched and faded in the presentation !

As you can tell I’m over the moon about this, I think It’s well cool, I just wish I’d found it earlier

Inspiration hit me last night, how about using the gnome foot – which is a ‘G’ – as the ‘g’ in blog or blogger.

So here we have it… Gnome Blogger

The back grounds are transparent so you can mess with the colours, I’ve done a light and a dark one depending on your taste !

It looks like gallery2 has buggered up the screen shots , so you can see some at art.gnome or gnome-look:

• Gnome Blogger white.
• Gnome Blogger black

Tango Beer
Backgrounds – GNOME

It’s under different name, but it’s nice to see the art.gnome people like my simple beer wallpaper

I thought it was time to clean up my desktop, you know had the usual mess of temporary files & shotcuts ! So to complement my cleaner desktop I thought I’d make a new gnome wallpaper.

My first draft was very plain, but then I remember this bottle top lid, I think it’s just the right touch.

Hope you like them

So I’m having a small issue posting, I’ve been in casualty due to my right eye not working properly. (More about this when I can see)

This picture has been on the camera for a week or two, but the recent additions to art.gnome have inspired me to crop this up to a nice shot.

Tiz cold in here!

Just a quick note to share the joy, My Sunset Pier picture has been accepted into the art.gnome gallery.

I’ve been meaning to finish this for a long time now, & I’ve finally finished integrating Gallery2 into my website. The pics section has a direct integration thanks to wpg2.

To celebrate I’ve thrown together a new wallpaper, it’s a sunset at southsea Pier, taken recently. Sunset pictures always make desktops, and this one has some subtle life in it too

Yummy Gnome Sunsetness!

I’ve released it too on gnome look.

Busy busy –

Just for dariorodt (See gnome-look ) I have done a copy of “I’d rather be at $HOME” without the text – enjoy !.

Download from Gnome-Look
Download from [LINICKX].com