GNOME Activity Journal hits the Road
GNOME Activity Journal is a nascent but promising tool for the Gnome desktop environment (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva etc ) that provides a simple User Interface to browse and find files on your computer.
A libwnck hack to Pin Ubuntu Windows the Chrome Way
Gnome: Chrome’s ‘Pin Tab’ feature that shrinks tabs to favicons only introduced a new way to save precious tab bar real estate in that browser, Firefox quickly got App Tabs extension. What we have here is a little libwnck hack that shrinks to icons only your windows in Ubuntu’s bottom panel, with the aim of […]
Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 ditches HAL
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx alpha 2 comes without monolithic Hal, the Hardware Abstraction Layer that lay between Ubuntu and its hardware – with the aim of making Ubuntu faster to boot and faster to resume from suspend. Hal’s functions have been picked up by Devicekit – a modular Hal. Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 2 also includes […]
Gimp (2.7) Single Window Mode – Love at first Sight
It’s no news that Gimp 2.8 is going to have a single-window optional mode – it has been confirmed, but Gimp 2.8 will have other goodies like ‘Multiple column inspectors’, ‘Polaroclass overlays’ and ‘Switch between open images using an easy history thumbnail bar’ – this last option is already present in Gimp 2.7, you can […]
OpenShot Video Editor 1.0 now Processes HD 720p Videos
The first stable version of OpenShot Video Editor has been released. OpenShot is a free and open source application for Linux distributions that makes video editing quite easy. OpenShot 1.0 comes with several bug fixes, a shiny new graphics and many new features that add to the many previous features like; Video encoding based on […]