Linux for Designers

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.

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

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

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

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 .

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

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

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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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.

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.