Not without a certain pleasure I announce that I got Rapache fixed and working again. Rapache is a graphical user tool to help you configure Apache2. It allows easy creation of virtual name hosts and modules activation without prior knowledge of configuration files. I still have to mess with the packaging thing, and there are certain trade-offs, but anybody interested can finally download a working version. To install it run the following commands sudo apt-get …
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Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’ Awesome New Plymouth Theme!
Old but still relevant. Enjoy.
Ubuntu 11.10 naming
Is it possible to make proposals for the Natty+1 Ubuntu codename ? If so, I propose Ozzy Osbourne. Please help my cause.
Ubuntu One Music Store, my answers
Since I posted about Canonical’s Music Store project, a few comments rained down from above. I’ll abuse my blog to give some answers. Oh, and you forgot to say “Welcome back, Stefano” ! Michael: This would be great, but it just seems to have a pipedreamy feel to it. Perhaps I’m too cynical to believe it would actually happen. I don’t see any reason for it to be unlikely. I think chances are it will …
Ubuntu One Music Store
For those who don’t know, the Lucid UDS has begun today. One of the most interesting yet controversial meetings is this: the Ubuntu One Music Store. What it will be is currently left to the imagination since no specification has apparently have been drafted yet. Selling music online has always been a controversial topic, and that adds interest in such a feature. Also interesting, assuming the meeting’s name is meaningful and correct, the association between …
Some notifications WIP
Macslow, who is working on notifications, recently posted some screencast of his last progresses. The first image shows a colored title bar upon every notification. While the chance to display the urgency of notifications has been discussed, this work is just meant to be useful for debugging – at least for now. The urgency bar will be displayed only in beta releases, to help the tester to debug and test how each applications uses notifications …
Hands off the Gimp
Really, you wouldn’t dare.. rickspencer3 proposes pulling the gimp from the CD: It takes up a lot of space that we need for couchdb, etc… F-Spot has key features, like crop and red-eye removal It’s a power user tool, users shouldn’t stumble into it Discussion points brought up that The gimp currently uses 26 megs of space, 20 of which are documentation, which could be moved online The gimp, though not totally user friendly, is …
Orange icon, we love you
As many of you already know, Jaunty brought a small but significant change in the Ubuntu user interface: the beloved updates icon doesn’t show up anymore. In its place, the Update Manager will automatically open under the current windows. The pop under technique is well known to any of you surfing porn highly advertised websites, once you close your current applications you’ll notice there’s a new window underneath. Also, since the use of the technique …
Interactive notifications mockup
Hello all, I sent a little proposal to the Ayatana mailing list. While I’m waiting for feedback from them, I thought I could just copy-paste it here and know what you think about it. I had an idea for notifications which require interaction. I’ve read about morphing windows on the Wiki but I think that they would undermine consistency a bit. I’m attaching a mockup to this mail, but I’m so bad at using Gimp …
