As you’ll doubtless recall, v2.0 of the HIG was released a few weeks ago, albeit without a great deal of fanfare.
Unfortunately there was no accompanying “what’s new that I need to know about”-type section, so I’ve quickly hacked one together now that I’ve finally had a few minutes.
Julie pointed out a prominent new arrival on ebay.co.uk today– a Powered by Sun logo up in the corner.
Sadly, the story’s a little different over at ebay.com…
[Also posted to d-d-l]
Since I seem to be spending most of my time playing catch-up with GNOME’s increasingly-sprawling accessible themes these days, I got to wondering if going forward we can’t put more of the responsibility on the individual modules to install accessible icons alongside their regular ones.
The current situation just doesn’t seem very workable going forward, if we’re considering accessibility to be a core feature. We don’t expect applications to submit all their icons to gnome-icon-theme for inclusion– they just install their own. A similar process for accessible themes seems like a logical extension to me.
Modules installing appropriate icons into $(themedir)/HighContrast etc. would be one way, assuming it’s actually possible to work out where those themes lives at install time, but that sounds rather ugly. Anyone any better ideas?
Spent my first full day working at home today since I got to the bottom of my VPN/wireless router problems. If Sun had their way I’d probably be doing it three or four times a week, but immeasurably improved as the experience is compared to teleworking over a dial-up connection, I just can’t imagine wanting to do it very often while the office is just a 20 minute drive away.
Was pointed at jdshelp.org yesterday, which is already starting to build up a nice little collection of rpms for JDS. What with that and the awesome blastwave project for Solaris, there’s quite a little community starting to build up around Sun desktop products at the moment, which is really cool.
News finally broke today of one of another major JDS deal… Allied Irish Bank will transition 7500 desktops in its branches in the UK and Ireland to JDS over the next year.
Of course this is a great win for Sun (the competition was extremely stiff), and since AIB are HQ’d in Dublin it’s a doubly-pleasing one for your friendly Sun GNOME team. But of course we couldn’t have done it without the GNOME community at large… YOU ROCK!
This quote made me chuckle:
“They should stay out of this,” said [named employee], a Sun Microsystems employee who attended the rally, who said he depends on money from stock options to pay his mortgage.
Ah, what it must have been to be part of the IT boom… the money from *my* Sun stock options wouldn’t buy a bag of penny caramels 🙂
Want to know how/where/when/why? Andy Tucker‘s looks like the blog to watch…
Sun’s Java System Calendar Server connector (aka hydrogen) for Evolution 1.4 on Solaris and Linux was GPL’ed today and is now available in GNOME CVS.
Kudos to everyone who made this happen… hopefully the Evo 1.5 version will be along soon 🙂
Been playing a bit with the gcalctool-ng branch of gcalctool today, to help Rich and Sami decide whether it was time to merge the new features back into head. Hopefully I’ve convinced them that it is 🙂
