Tag Archives: gnome
GNOME Shell
I’ve been using the bleeding edge version of GNOME Shell for some time now. I’ve put off coming to quick judgements during that time. I wanted to get used to it. Also, it’s been changing a lot. Now that I have given … Continue reading
GNOME Usability Hackfest
I spent this week attending the GNOME Usability Hackfest. It was great to spend some time among fellow GNOME art/design/usability/HCI/whatever folk and to participate in some exciting discussions. Thanks to Google and especially to Canonical for sponsoring the event. Not only … Continue reading
App centrism and document management
There’s an interesting discussion occuring on the GNOME Usability list at the moment. The topic: should file management be done using the file browser and file system, or using specialist applications each of which accesses their own files? Allan Caeg … Continue reading
Christmas goings on
I’ve got a long list of design and usability projects that I want to work on at the moment. The Christmas break gave me a welcome opportunity to spend a bit of time on a few of them. I wrote … Continue reading
My GNOME Christmas list
Christmas is in the air! Why, only yesterday, I sat by a roaring fire, taking in the scent of pine while sinking a couple of pints of ale. Good times. It being the festive season, I’ve been thinking about what … Continue reading
GNOME Keyboard Preferences
I tend to alternate between two keyboard layouts, which requires me to interact with GNOME’s Keyboard Preferences dialog (aka gnome-keyboard-properties). I have found setting up keyboard layout switching to be a confusing experience, however. So I recently set about doing … Continue reading
Karmic Koala: my top five changes
I first started using Ubuntu back in the days of the Warty Warthog. The distribution has come a long way since then. It’s easy to forget how much progress Ubuntu (and GNOME – this is a review of GNOME 2.28 … Continue reading
As far as I know
As far as I know: there’s a nice sentiment to that expression. It always seemed to me to be a reminder of the limits of knowledge. This blog is going to be about my interest in software and my involvement in open source. It’s going to be a place for me to share the work I do on the GNOME project. Continue reading
As far as I know 