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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "desktop"

F-Spot GSOC progress

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For the fanboys of F-Spot: Take a look at Vasiliy Kirilichev blog, their he wrote about his progress of the GSOC F-Spot Color Profiles project.

Hand Draw'n Styled Webdesign

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Another inspiring part of Smashing Magazine: Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design. The first part of it can be found here.
For those that stayed more on layouts and print check out the article Beautiful Brochures and Booklets.

Dancing Tango

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After a long, long time and many requests of visitors i started to collect and convert my Tango icon set to make it public. You can download it now :smile:

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What is a good image viewer?

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A good question by Linux Photography. Did we need really image viewers like gThumb? I personally belief in the thumbnail features of Nautilus and didn't need one anymore. Ok, for reviewing photos i use F-Spot :smile:

OS's and wallpapers

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William Jon McCann has collected an interesting overview about operating systems and their bundled wallpapers - a lot of eyecandy.

F-spot 0.4.4

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With F-Spot 0.4.4, the first version influenced by Googles Summer of Code is available, this release adds some cool enhancements and a better integration in the Gnome Desktop using GIO. F-Spot is a full-featured personal photo management application with a modern interface.
* FullScreen enhancements: fading widgets, snapped on screen edges, ...
* rating with hotkeys: Alt-0 to Alt-5 in browse or edit mode
* reduce startup time by ~40%
* push back the "sort tag by popularity"
* choose the theme you prefer for f-spot
* reduce the verbosity of the output log
* migrate CDExport to gio for gnome 2.22
* an insane amount of other fixes, new capabilities,
updated translations and refactoring

BIG Typography

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Smashing Magazine collected "55 examples of big, “loud” and yet elegant typography in web design".

Pimp your Desk

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Normally wallpaper collections are a lot of crap, but Smashing did again a first and secound nice job.

F-spot 0.4.3

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F-Spot, a full-featured personal photo management application with a modern interface, is official released as 0.4.3. It shipped with many bugfixes and some feature enhancements:
* new print dialog with preview, new print options
* new filmstrip widget in Edit mode
* allow custom selection ratios for cropping
* sort tags by popularity (desc) in tag-typing autocompletion
* x-content/* support, integrate seemlessly with gnome 2.22
* works again on ppc architecture
* tons of bugfixes, translation updates and improvments all over the place

F-Spot GSoC

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I love F-Spot and i'm happy to read that there will be nice improvements as a Summer of Code project featured by Google. Ruben Vermeersch will improve the sidebar like some mockups of Jimmac shows :smile:.

Google Picasa 2.7 for Linux

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The final version of the photo management software Picasa 2.7 for Linux is available. Now you can import images from your disk and publish them in the web. Besides this long awaited feature Picasa 2.7 for Linux offers:
* a better and faster import of images
* added support for the cameras Canon EOS 30D and Nikon D200
* support for Adobe DNG format
* bigger previews
* better search for camera details like ISO or focal values
Video support is still missing in the Linux version. Renember Picasa is not a native Linux application, its ported to Linux using the Winelib. You can download it for various distributions including Debian/ Ubuntu.

GNOME Wallpaper Contest

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Are you a real rock'in artist and believe in Gnome? So create an amazing wallpaper for Gnome 2.24 :smile:

Usability: Goodbye steppers

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I recognized since some geniuses developed the scroll wheel and virtual scrolling by middle click the stepper at the beginning/ end of the scrollbar gets outdated. Myself didn't use them all the time, so i killed them from my desktop theme for a clearer look.
After 14 days of working with the new theme i do not miss them.

f-spot 0.4.2

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F-Spot, a full-featured personal photo management application with a modern interface, is official released as 0.4.2. It shpped with many bugfixes and some feature enhancements:
# rating and filter on rating
# auto-upgrade db from sqlite2 to sqlite3
# expose the stores through dbus
# MonoDevelop solution file
# new extensions

New cool Gnome shirt

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Wear your mind and get a new, cool Gnome shirt

Updated Comic hack

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I updated my "Wulffmorgenthaler's Daily" hack of the AWN Dilbert comic applet to get it running with the Avant Window Navigator 0.2.1. I submitted this to Launchpad too so it can be included in the next release of AWN.

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gThumb 2.10.8

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With a lot of bugfixes gThumb - an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop - is released as version 2.10.8. All details about this release can be found at the "News" page

f-spot 0.4.1

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After a first SVN release now F-Spot is official released as 0.4.1. F-Spot 0.4.1 is a full-featured personal photo management application. 0.4.1 comes with interesting new features like:
* .arw support (sony A100)
* New extensions: RawPlusJpeg, DevelopInUFRaw, SyncCatalog
* Reworked TagView
* Inhibit/Unhinibit the screensaver in slideshow
...and many bug fixes and translation updates too.

Wulffmorgenthaler's Daily Comic

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I'm definetly a big fan of Wulffmorgenthaler's Daily Comic (check out the Download too). But i didn't have the time to visit their site daily.
That's not longer pity, i brought it to my desktop now. I'm using the Avant Window Navigator and hacked the "Dilbert Comic" applet a little bit.
Just download this archive and copy the files into "/usr/lib/awn/applets/comic". Overwrite the existing files (may make a backup of them first). Start AWN and add the "Dilbert Comic" applet to your dock. After that you will get on your desktop via mouse over too.
Have fun with it!

Wulffmorgenthaler.com

f-spot 0.4.1 - Italian Job

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F-Spot 0.4.1 the full-featured personal photo management application is released. It comes with interesting new features like:
* .arw support (sony A100)
* New extensions: RawPlusJpeg, DevelopInUFRaw, SyncCatalog
* Reworked TagView
* Inhibit/Unhinibit the screensaver in slideshow
...and bug fixes and translation updates too.