Category: Free/Open-Source software
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Snowy hackfest & Boston Summit
I had a great time at the Snowy hackfest (and the Boston Summit). Thanks to the subsidy from the GNOME Foundation, I’ve been able to meet tons of brilliant people and help free/open source software while meeting the constraints of my student schedule—and budget! In order to get you all pumped up and excited before…
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Adopt a Specto
As you can see I haven’t touched Specto in quite a while. I’m not going to start fixing things or implementing new features myself anytime soon. This is because: I consider Specto “good enough” and I lack the time/hacking skills to devote to it I spend lots of energy on other projects such as PiTiVi.…
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Snowy hackfest and Boston Summit 2010
Fellow hackers and designers, I will be in Boston from November 4th to 8th. I have been summoned there to participate, as a designer/tester/usability freak, in the glorious rise of a better user interface for Snowy, the open-source online synchronization and collaborative editing project for Tomboy. Thanks to sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation, I will…
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Introducing: Recipe Manager
Three years ago, Daniel Taylor (of Arista fame) made a small application designed to store and manage your favourite recipes. It was simple, lightweight, elegant. He called it Recipe Manager (got a better, unique name, anyone?) and released a “technology preview” along with the file format spec onto this website. I was pretty excited and…
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Nautilus, EOG, Maverick
Ça fait plaisir de constater que Nautilus 2.32 va enfin être moins con avec les conflits lors de transferts de fichiers: …et que Eye of GNOME détecte enfin les changements aux fichiers (probablement à l’aide de inotify): À part ça, Le nouveau thème d’Ubuntu made-in-Cimi est assez sexy et balancé pour que je considère sérieusement…
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Free my memory
My fellow Antistress argued that I should be going back from Chromium to Firefox today. I replied, “Only when it starts up in less than 3 seconds and frees my goddamn memory when closing tabs”. He then replied with the following statement: firefox a la meilleure gestion de la mémoire tous navigateurs confondus (cf tests unanimes sur…
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Desktop in the Shell
I once wrote a nice rant about the inadequacy of the desktop metaphor. In the light of the upcoming GNOME 3, the more document-centric Shell and the browser-mode nautilus (instead of spatial mode), I wanted to remix my thoughts a bit. Note: I am not a developer and I am not on the Shell or…
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GNOME pour les non-ordinateuriens
Ce qui suit est une étude de cas spéciale, à long-terme (longitudinale, comme on dirait en psy) d’un bureau GNOME adapté à un type d’utilisateur très particulier: un non-ordinateurien pur (plus hardcore que ce que décrivait Ploum). Depuis des années, je fais le soutien technique pour les membres de la famille qui roulent Ubuntu/Linux (j’ai…
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Burnt by disc burning
I’ve been happily using various pieces of software over the last five years (especially nautilus-cd-burner and K3B) to burn ISO images, create data DVDs, etc. I’ve come to rely on that kind of stuff to work and keep working. Not in Ubuntu 10.04. For some reason, I have been unable to burn a single data DVD…
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Le pack bitos du donjon de la numérisation
J’avais énoncé, dès 2006, mon sentiment d’horreur face à l’interface graphique principale pour SANE, c’est-à-dire xsane: Entre temps, un nouveau projet en lequel je plaçais mes espoirs fit apparition: GNOME Scan (et sa librairie complément «Flegita»). Problème: il semble n’y avoir pratiquement qu’un dev à la tâche, et le projet avance quelque peu lentement. Conséquemment,…