Unity-2D on Ubuntu 10.10
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
I have tried and tested Ubuntu 11.04 during its development cycle and also after the final release and I really liked Unity 2D. It was the first shell that I did not felt the need for major customization. The fact that external monitor support is again broken, middle click emulation is no longer a default [...]
GMail Offline in Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Planet Ubuntu
Since offline storage for web browsers is still not standard across major web browser it looks like the only way to use GMail offline on latest Ubuntu version (10.04, 10.10 and 11.04) is to install Google Gears extension for Firefox and install Firefox 3.6.
Here is a short how-to:
* Download Firefox 3.6
* Extract the [...]
Mingle with GTKSourceView
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
In the last years, Gedit was my trustful companion. It does not has all the bling-bling of Anjuta or Eclipse but with some extra modules, Gedit can be a reputable text editor.
For me, the most important feature of a text(code) editor is syntax highlighting and Gedit together with GTKSourceView offers a nice syntax highlighter.
Now, if [...]
RSS Feed for Ubuntu translations that needs review
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
After announcing the „alpha” version on the Ubuntu Translators mailing list, I am also adding this to Ubuntu planet for more feedback.
For the Romanian team I wanted to keep the “needs review” counter somewhere near zero so that new translators will get a quick feedback and will be encourage to add more translations. I received [...]
Missing your libido … find it in Ubuntu
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Ubuntu does not make any compromises from the `Ubuntu for human being` tagline.
Libido is already installed by default in latest Ubuntu version.
For now it is only at version 0.1 … but it is free software and everyone can study its internals and help improve it (GNU LGPL - Visit project page in Launchpad).
For getting [...]
Finalizing Launchpad Translations keyboard shortcuts
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Since Launchpad is by now free software, I start working at improving the Launchpad Translations (Rosetta) main translations page by adding keyboard shortcuts for all common actions.
The following shortcuts were implemented and are in productions for more than one months but we need more feedback to finalize this feature:
First field is autofocused.
Shift+Alt+b - Focus first [...]
GtkSourceView is a big boy now
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
Vim is a nice text editor and I’m happy to use it for editing various source code and configuration files on remote servers, but on my desktop I prefer Gedit as I am more comfortable writing plugins in Python.
I have made some customization to QuickOpen and improvements to SessionSaver (waiting to be approved upstream) plugins [...]
