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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "desktop"

A interesting Touch Interface Concept for Mobiles

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A month ago i wrote a post about the interesting interface idea of 10/GUI. Today i found an interesting Touch Interface concept for Mobiles: Emblaze's First Else

More details about it can be found at Engadget or at the Else website.

A Heart Beat for Gnome

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If you like the Gnome Desktop (which ships by Ubuntu) and you buy often books online then buy your books next time at the Gnome Amazon Store to support the Gnome Desktop!
PS: Available in many languages!

10/GUI - Reinvented Human-Computer Interaction

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A very interesting vision of desktop human-computer interaction:

Real Wallpapers

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That wallpapers not only beautify your desktop shows that collection of 23 real wallpapers:
http://www.secondose.com/23-fantastic-wallpapers/

BTW: If you are looking for wallpapers for your desktop, check out these:
http://abduzeedo.com/tags/wallpaper
http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpapers/

...or my older post about wallpapers.

F-Spot 0.6 is out

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F-Spot is my favorite photo management software at all. Now it is available as version 0.6:
* no longer depends on libeog
* fighting against deprecation, on the path to gnome3
* new viewer widget
* new widget showing folders organisation
* new Preference dialog
* db and config moved to .config (or whatever is pointed by xdg config)
* tons of bugs fixed (really)
* updated translations

Check out Ruben Vermeersch blog post about this release too! To bad there is no Ubuntu Jaunty built at the moment (please can some build it :smile:)

UPDATE 090810
Now a Ubuntu Deb package of F-Spot 0.6.0 is available (thanx to Carnophage for the hint).

Video of Desktop Summit Gran Canaria

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This year Gran Canaria hosted both the Akademy and GUADEC conferences. The most important hackers from KDE and GNOME were for the first time at the same place.
Now the videos of a large amount of talks are available. My favorite one is Matthew Paul Thomas about Common interface bloopers - really true, very funny :smile:

F-Spot again

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In my last posts i reported about the new upcoming features (geolocation etc.) of F-Spot. Meanwhile the development goes on and a lot of new interesting stuff:
* Folder bars
* Dialog redesign

F-Spot next steps

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Ruben Vermeersch answers about: Is F-Spot Live and kicking?
Yes it is :smile: There are several real interesting things going on:
* Mike Gemünde is currently cleaning and refactoring quite a lot of IconView code
* Geotagging is coming (Mike Gemünde is working on it too)
* Paul Wellner Bou is working on a nice extension to compare different image versions
* Lorenzo Milesi is working on export support to tabblo and taking care of bugzilla
* Ruben Vermeersch himself working on prototyping some stuff related to progressive image loading and preloading. He is also looking into RAW processing

Read the complete post and check out the screenies!

Thumbnailer for the Gnome Desktop

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After many different posts about thumbnailers for various file formats, here is a complete collection for visual pimping your Nautilus. This is refered too Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.

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Gimp XCF support for Gnome

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Once i was very happy getting a message from Jan Dudek about his PSD PixBuf loader for Photoshop PSD files for the Gnome Linux Desktop. It makes it possible viewing such files with any Gnome application supporting PixBuf loaders.
Now i'm very happy again because Stephane Delcroix did the same for Gimp XCF files. So Nautilus, gThumb, F-Spot, EOG etc. can display the open standard and the industrie standard for layered image documents :smile:
The bad thing is i didn't get it running at the moment. May someone can create a Deb package for it :wink:.

gThumb 2.10.11

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After a longer development break the image viewer gThumb is back. This time again with bugfixes and translation updates. All details about this release can be found at the "News" page.

Pimp your Desk - again

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Once i posted a link about two good wallpaper selections of the Smashing Magazine. Today Sebastian, member of the DEV3 team, droped me a link to Desktopography. Desktopography offers a really quite amazing collections of wallpapers - check it out!

Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art

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For those that loving funny sketches and art: Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art. Another goody of the Smashing Magazine.

Twitter me

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You can follow me now at Twitter but this time in german. BTW: From my personal view the best Twitter desktop client for Ubuntu is Gwibber!

Theming: New Glory

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Once i reported that i kicked of the steppers of my theme, in the last weeks i started now to redesign it. The goal is again to think about what is really needed if you are a power user and you are very familiar with your desktop. I ask my self what i'm using/ where i'm looking often (accelerators and toolbar) and what/ where not (menu, statusbar, windows titles).
As a UI designer i really enjoy it that you need just gEdit and Gimp to modify/ create a theme and not any additional theming-switching-patch-hidden-registry-stuff-tool :smile:
Here is a screen of the actual state of "New Glory":

50 Beautiful Movie Posters

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The Smashing Magazine didn't get tired of collecting artwork. This time they collected 50 beautiful movie posters.
My favorites are:
* Walk aline
* The Thing
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Unforgiven
* Man With One Red Shoe
* Perfume
* Mean Streets
* Sweeney Todd
As you see it isn't easy to pick just one in such a good selection :smile:

F-Spot 0.5.0.1

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With some smaller fixes F-Spot 0.5.0.1 is available:
* workaround a bug in gdk-pixbuf
* some new translations
* .desktop fixes
Since a while i use F-Spot 0.5.0 which adds a lot of nice features and brings great speed improvement. For me anything works very well and again F-Spot is my favorite photo management software at all. For those may having some trouble you should check out the the F-Spot posts at the Init 7 blog.

50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks

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F-Spot 0.5

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My favorite photo management software is F-Spot. Now the new 0.5 version, including all the F-Spot GSoC projects is available:
* new sidebar, reworked editors
* color profile support
* duplicate detection at import
* reworked db interractions
* reducing and batching db access
* light-speed tagging
* FullScreen mode enhancement
* new extensions, updated docs, updated translations
* hundreds of bugfixes
UPDATE: You can get it for Ubuntu Hardy here
http://www.soccio.it/michelinux/2008/09/21/new-f-spot-050-build-for-ubuntu/en/

Integrate Picasa with Ubuntu

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You like to use Googles photo manager Picasa with Ubuntu? Then read the article "Integrate Picasa with Ubuntu" at Ubuntu Productivity for a nice workflow.