Pasquetta is the italian name for the day right after easter. I hope you enjoyed your eggs and had a happy easter.
Here’s a quick round up, but with quite nice stuff, nice enough to make me feel sorry about not writing a dedicate article for each entry.
Critique on notifications
As some of you know, I’ve been somewhat critique of new Ubuntu’s notifications. Since I wrote a quick app based on notifications, some time ago, I’ve had to read libnotify’s documentation, checked they’re basic examples and, well, the new notifications drop quite a lot of useful functionality.
While I wish I would had take the time to write things in detail, I’m discovering today that someone did, and in a very detailed way. If you’re interested in the notifications I highly recommend to read this article, it’s very detailed and very good. I agree on all the points. [source: Mads]
By the way, it’s really too late for canonical to change something.
Novell’s new Linux Commercial
Novell recently uploaded on YouTube its last commercial. The commercial is of professional quality and pretty nice, even though a little on the dumb side.
Also the Suse mascotte it’s hilarious to see.
If you watch carefully you can spot Mister X (Mono) appearing briefly. Oh, and don’t forget to listen the song in reverse motion 
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Intel to contribute to GCC
Gcc perhaps the C compiler most widely used on linux. One Intel employee recently wrote in the Gnu mailing list asking for details on the copyright assignment required from GNU for large contributions. Turns out a team of three Intel’s people will contribute on gcc.
Having processors manufactorers employees to directly contribute to the C compiler may bring nice performance improvments. That’s a great news.
Cheap Linux (ubuntu ?) touch tablet for hit the market soon
The sexy baby above is named Crunhpad and was born as an experiment by the Techcrunch people which wanted to see if assembling a cheap tablet was possible. After the first experiment, they had a so overhelming response they decided to produce it for real !
The first prototypes were running Ubuntu. The new prototypes are still Linux based, but use a “bottom-up linux operating system“. The good news is: if the first prototypes were made on Ubuntu, it will be probably easy to get it back on the machine.
The approximate cost will be USD 300. Yes, you heard it right ! Also, while there are not tech specs around, I can tell from the photo that the horizontal screen resolution went to 1280 (the first prototypes had 1024 pixel in width).
Take a look to the leaked photos and the project’s story !
Dell’s Adamo does it better
Adamo is overpriced and probably worthless, but introduces a big change: no intel and windows stickers 
Debian’s “google summer of code” wishlist published
Notably inside the list you find “- On-demand Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus Integration“.
Please someone help Ubuntu keep its promises for the Koala.
Gnome Zeitgeist design decisions
Random UI mockup of Gnome Zeitgeist
G.Z. is a project to bring a sane and time-based filebrowser to the Gnome desktop. After getting pressed to change the language from Python to Mono (and Vala, and LOLCODE, and..), and after refusing to do so, the developers announced Zeitgeist will become a language agnostic daemon so everyone will be able to write the UI in the preferred language.
Yet another daemon ? No thanks.
Miscellaneous things
- Chromium for linux improved: now tab work as intended, including a pretty nice animation on creation and removal. Learn how to easily install Chromium on Ubuntu here. Update: check out the screenshots. (source: Nico)
- Great success for my post about how to create infinite mirrors of Ubuntu. Someone please
rememberremind me to write rubbish more often . - Get yourself kicked and banned on IRC the easy way with URL expander !
Maybe it should be “please remind me” instead “please remember me”
BTW, Chromium UI is improving really fast – not only tabs now work almost as they should, but bookmarks bar was also introduced and the browser can now restore all the tabs that were open before the browser crashed.
…just few more things I forgot to mention about Chromium: it can now remember passwords and page zoom now works with + and – from Numpad.
thanks ! Yes, I noticed the other new features. Now if they only had already implemented “create application shortcut” …
Hehe @ the commercial. Penguin flapping was kind of cool. Isn’t the guy wearing a fedora though?