We’re all familiar with tabbed UIs. They’re far too common to miss. But, as it often happens, “common” doesn’t mean “good idea”. Let’s take a look at what tabs are, why they were created, how […]
A new elementary-style screencasting tool is seeking wider testing. Eidete, which is in heavy development, makes use of elementary project technologies like Granite and Contractor. The result is an application that's simple, featured and a snap to use.
Sometimes applications crashes, freeze or otherwise develop an appetite for every last byte of system resources. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. When an application 'crashes' it usually doesn't require any input from you (other than banging your head against the wall at any unsaved work now lost). But applications that decide to 'hang' or 'freeze' not only get in the way of you carrying on with whatever you were doing but can often max out your system resources - leaving you with no option but to reboot or nose-dive into the command line. That's where FlashFreeze by Sergey 'shnatsel' Davidoff is of use.
We all want the latest features and changes an app has to offer, and for many of us that means using unstable, beta or sometimes even alpha quality software. This 'bite of the beta pie' approach has drawbacks: application performance may not be ideal and you risk files being trashed by buggy new features.
Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff has revived his old school gnome-menu-like Dash for Ubuntu. The project, which we first wrote about back in March of this year, replaces the stock Unity Dash with a traditional 'GNOME Menu' style layout based on categories.
Developer Shnatsel stopped by the OMG! Inbox! to share word an icon-based project hes been working on that aims to help LibreOffice better 'visually' fit the rest of the Ubuntu desktop.
It seems everyone and their pet parrot has an opinion on what Ubuntu's new Unity interface could be doing better right now. But Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff did more than mock-up, moan or migrate to a different Shell entirely when "driven nuts" by Unity's 'inconsistent launcher-duplicating Dash': he created a proof-of-concept implementation of his desired 'old school gnome-menu-like Dash'.
Further to our post calling for help in creating an Ambiance theme for Gedit in Ubuntu 11.04, developer Shnatsel has packaged Badschemer - a GtkSourceViewer 'style' editor - into a .deb installer for easy-as-pie installation in Ubuntu.
Calling designers and/or those with minute attention to detail: want to play your part in shaping Ubuntu 11.04? Of course you do, and here's how.
Boot screens: generally the land of the bland. But not so anymore.
Over on DevinatArt, designer Izobalax has been musing on a minor flaw in Zeitgeists armour: the ability to easily 'take' your logswith you.
Elephants and readers with a good memory may remember an 'ambient boot splash' proposal we featured at the end of October.