Just a quick post since I haven’t written in a while…
Gimmie
We’ve seen some amazing progress lately, with the Computer topic being built up to support a lot of the features present in other parts of the GNOME Desktop: listing printers, drives, media devices, and remote network mounts. Gimmie presents them all in a single consistent searchable/bookmarkable interface, just like Applications, Documents, and People.
A recent patch from Tony Tsui adds the ability to drag files to the Trashcan to delete them. It’s a good example of the low-hanging fruit in Gimmie that has a lot of benefit to our growing user base.
Other sundry improvements include better support for Gaim (and especially Gaim2) when listing online buddies and active chats, improvements to the auto-raise algorithm in the GimmieBar, and lots of other little tweaks.
Pretty soon I’ll be shaking things up a bit with a new GimmieBar layout, so stay tuned for that. Also, an artistic contributor submitted this beautiful creation, which I think is destined to become our project icon:
VMware
Worklife is busy, with VMware Server approaching the end of it’s beta cycles. I am eager to see how this first release fosters experimentation with virtualization for those who might never have considered it in the past.
Combined with a new crop of lightweight virtual appliances, Server enables a new mashup-style approach to solving problems a in diverse server environment. Exciting stuff.
Me
Carrie and I are enjoying our new apartment at 54 Landers St. in the middle of the city. Having a den/study is a blessing, since it allows me to physically separate my computer life from the rest of my home life. The challenge now is finding fair balance between the two.
My intro to Chinese acrobatics class has me building some shoulder muscle for the first time in my life, and I can now feel balance and consistency in my handstands improving. Last week we began using the mini-trampoline to work on aerials for the first time.
This is the nicest thing anyone has ever sent me about software I’ve worked on:
Subject: Defaults on Tomboy Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:56:10 -0400Hi Alex!
I picked up the idea for Tomboy from a short article in “Linux Format” magazine, so installed it a few days ago. I like it a lot, especially the linking feature.
However, I didn’t like your default font for either size or name. It took me a while to find that a right click on the Tomboy ikon allowed some of these things to be changed. Now that I have managed to change to a sans font at 12 points, I am VERY happy with the application. What a simple, neat and elegant solution for a common office need!
I am now retired but use my system a lot for letters, surfing the web, keeping tabs on medical appointments and so on. So I now use Tomboy as back up memory! I can now jot down things to buy when I’m next at the stores, points to bring up with my family physician or medical specialist, titles of books I’ve ordered either from book clubs or from stores, and much, much more.
Thanks for a great little application.
I’ll be 26 this Saturday.
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Maybe the tomboy icon should really be a brain with a bunch of wires comming off of it
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youre right alex, thats an awesome email. there is something different between a hacker finding what you do helpful, and your grandfather finding what you do helpful.
what I want to know is how he got linux on his computer, unless youve got tomboy for windows somewhere…
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That’s really cool, on all fronts. I’ve been keeping up with Tomboy CVS but unfortunately the latest code crashes for me in libgnomeui (i don’t seem to have much luck with this!) and so it’ll have to wait until after my finals on Monday for some debugging time. Currently my “desktop” consists of compiz and …… gnome-terminal. Hmm
Could really make use of a working gimmie right now.We want videos of the Chinese acrobatics by the way! I’ve been practicing handstands myself lately for capoeira, maybe one day we can get together with MacSlow and do some crazy stunts
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And, of course, happy birthday (in advance)!
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Mike, let’s try narrowing down your crash by moving ~/.recently-used and ~/.gimmie-bookmarks out of the way individually. The crash is probably caused by one of these two files, so if we can narrow down exactly what is killing gnomeui (icon_lookup probably) we can work around it.
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Deleting gimmie-bookmarks did it! Cool
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“I am eager to see how this first release fosters experimentation with virtualization for those who might never have considered it in the past.”
Oh, it’s superb stuff alright. The only problem is whether the people will realize the opportunity exists and what it can offer. Getting the users (both novice home users and corporate users) realize that and try the stuff out requires good marketing and sharp focus.
VMWare is awesome too. It’s usable (unlike many “open source” competitors by default), fastish and stable. I’ve taken my (paid, legal! whee) Vmware Workstation on Linux to the edge and a bit beyond. Now I’m on Windows and the Vmware Server beta is a fundamental piece of my daily actions.
It’s enough for me learning systems administration on a private sealed network, using multiple operating systems simultaneously. Vmware is near perfect for that stuff. Thank you!
(The only gripe I got is that Vmware products don’t exist for FreeBSD. It’s far more pleasant and reliable platform than Linux tbh…)
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