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Gnome / Nautilus going round in circles

nick — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:03:00 +0100

I wonder if anyone else finds this a bit irritating...

This new "spatial" user interface presents just one window for each folder, and remembers their location and size.

Now...

Nautilus features a number of user interface changes including a new split view mode and is now set to browser mode by default, replacing spatial mode.

Gnome 2.30 Release Notes

Is this progression or development in circles?

Evolution in Gnome 2.26

nick — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:05:00 +0000

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 running in insecure memory.

nick — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:57:00 +0000

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.orgso a quick...

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/seahorse*

and we're done, no more error messages :)

Fedora 7: Theming the Gnome Screensaver Lock Dialogue

nick — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:29:00 +0100

[![Fedora 7 Flying High Locked Theme](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/05/locked-150x150.png "Fedora Locked")](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/05/locked.png)

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 tosomething 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 ;)

Weather Wallpaper rpm for Fedora 7

nick — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:51:00 +0100

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 :cool:

Edit: Hidden yum transation behind more tag.

[nick@localhost SPECS]$ sudo yum install weather-wallpaper Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 LINICKX 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00 LINICKX : ################################################## 2/2 fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00 Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package weather-wallpaper.i386 0:0.1.0-1 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: python-pymetar for package: weather-wallpaper --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Running transaction check ---> Package weather-wallpaper.i386 0:0.1.0-1 set to be updated ---> Package python-pymetar.i386 0:0.12-1 set to be updated

Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
weather-wallpaper i386 0.1.0-1 LINICKX 122 k
Installing for dependencies:
python-pymetar i386 0.12-1 LINICKX 37 k

Transaction Summary

Install 2 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 159 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): python-pymetar-0.1 100% |=========================| 37 kB 00:00
(2/2): weather-wallpaper- 100% |=========================| 122 kB 00:00
Running rpm_check_debug
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package weather-wallpaper.i386 0:0.1.0-1 set to be updated
---> Package python-pymetar.i386 0:0.12-1 set to be updated
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: python-pymetar ######################### [1/2]
Installing: weather-wallpaper ######################### [2/2]

Installed: weather-wallpaper.i386 0:0.1.0-1
Dependency Installed: python-pymetar.i386 0:0.12-1
Complete!

Gnome Aqua Matrix

nick — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:18:00 +0100

...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!! :-)

[caption id="attachment_542" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="It's like, Gnome meets Mac meets Neo!"][/caption]

EDIT: Now available on art.gnome :-)

Crash Pin Stripes ! (EDIT!)

nick — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:03:00 +0100

*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 ;-)

[caption id="attachment_552" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Making good use of the time she crashed."][/caption]

Gnome Wallpaper - Blue & Simple

nick — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:35:00 +0000

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...

[caption id="attachment_569" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Not too much, not too little."][/caption]

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 ;)

Frosty Grass On Video (Gnome XGL)

nick — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:03:00 +0000

[caption id="attachment\_512" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Tiz cold in here!"][![Tiz cold in here!](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/10/frostygrass-150x150.jpg "Frosty Grass")](https://www.linickx.com/archives/89/new-gnomeart-anyone-for-frosty-grass/frostygrass)[/caption]

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 !!!!!! :cool:
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 :-D

Gnome Blogger (Wallpaper)

nick — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:01:00 +0000

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: