Posts from December 2009

Google Wave Metacity

This last week I’ve been banging on about the utterly gorgeous Google Wave Emerald theme. I don’t much care for Emerald and prefer to use Metacity. Thankfully the awesome AlexR1 on Gnome-Look.org has updated his […]

3 December 2009

Solve Crowded GNOME 2 Panels By using A Drawer

Ever wanted to hide excessive icons on your panel? Just pop them in a drawer! Right click the panel with the excessive icons Choose ‘Add To Panel’ Select ‘Drawer’ Move it to where you want […]

3 December 2009

National Public Radio Docky Docklet

‘Docky’ has added a National Public Radio docklet to its line-up. The docklet allows user to to search for and, presumably (see below), play stations that are available to them. Clicking on the NPR logo […]

2 December 2009

"MyHumanity" Pidgin Theme Is Tango, Nice

“MyHumanity” for Pidgin is a subtle yet Tango-esque way to improve Pidgin’s contact list.  For comparison here are the default Pidgin icons against the “MyHumanity” icons: –   Sure this isn’t an earth-shatteringly dramatic change, […]

2 December 2009

New Adobe Flash 64bit For Linux Coming 8th December

Adobe are to release a new version of their native 64-bit Flash plug-in for Linux on the 8th December. Posting on the “Flash 10 Player” page for Linux 64 bit, Adobe make the following statement:- […]

2 December 2009

Mark Speaks; New Artwork For Lucid, Awesome Messaging Applet Improvements Coming, View On ChromeOS, More!

Lucid, Lucid, Lucid. It’s the only word on Ubuntu-fervents lips these days! As part of the post-Koala release, Mark Shuttleworth held his usual Q&A session in an IRC in somewhere land and spilt all sorts […]

1 December 2009

Android Icon/GTK Theme For Ubuntu

I love Android. I can’t afford an Android device, but still I love Android. I started porting the Android handset icons to a gnome theme when i came across iruel‘s similar attempt on Gnome-look. Called […]

1 December 2009

Android Clock Screenlet Theme

I love Android. I can’t afford an Android device mind, but I still love Android. I’m currently porting the Android icon set into a Gnome theme using Genoid’s work so far as a base, but […]

1 December 2009

Ubuntu Lucid To Use Plymouth; Non-Intel Users To Lose Out?

A few weeks ago the decision was mooted to switch Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx from USplash to Plymouth. The decision was made in light of the fact that the boot transitions between boot and the […]

1 December 2009
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