Category Archives: General

Old mouse (rebranded Logitech) was acting up and the plastic pads on the bottom were having issues as well. Bought a Logitech LS1. Different mouse takes a bit getting used to. New one is smaller, scroll wheel isn’t as nice … Continue reading →

Just got an unsollicited email from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Apparently people are encouraged to get as much money donated as possible. As a result, some person seem to have collected email addresses and send out various of such ‘give … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading the feedback regarding GNOME3. Pretty nice overall. A lot of feedback thanks to the Live versions available on gnome3.orgGNOME is made of various people spending time on what they think is good for the project overall. The … Continue reading →

So what did I do? Watch the videos made by Jason Clinton Change master.gnome.org; this is the machine where maintainers upload tarballs and the release-team actually does the release Figure out the redirects from the old www.gnome.org to the new … Continue reading →

Release team has gotten a few hard code freeze breaks. Overview of the requests (not going to specify if they’ve been approved; too much work): March 22 control center: 2 breaks, then another mutter: transparency March 23 gnome-panel: entire branch … Continue reading →

Correcting Marks statement: He talks about App Indicators, saying that “They didn’t even propose changes to core GNOME components to support application indicators.” Actually, we did, and those changes required App Indicators to be an external dependency. So we proposed … Continue reading →

Hey Phil, No need to be frustrated. Just talk to some people and you’ll notice that nobody is treated in any special way. Do wonder what triggered this. Just the Canonical-Banshee thing? Some comments: For starters, some [2] people in … Continue reading →

Note that Ubuntu users can be easily detected by their user-agent. Just check the user-agent string for ‘Ubuntu/’. Maybe we could put a ‘Friends of GNOME’-like banner on planet.gnome.org, www.gnome.org, and so on and politely request users to install a … Continue reading →

If you’re attending, please add your name on the GNOME Wiki. Don’t forget to mention if you want to a t-shirt (5 or 10 EUR, see wiki). There is also a GNOME event in a bar on Saturday evening. It … Continue reading →

Seems a bit of criticism on the Unity announcement is being taken personally or as attacks or something. Please remind ourselves of the ‘Assume people mean well’ bit in the Code of Conduct? Not saying people aren’t following that, but … Continue reading →