Linux for Designers

The Gnome video editor PiTiVi 0.14 is released. This version comes with a lot of bugfixes and tons of new features: http://www.pitivi.org/
A PPA for Ubuntu Lucid and above can be found at:
https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa

I love previews in Nautilus, so i updated my "Thumbnailer for the Gnome Desktop" article about thumbnails of HTML files.

So many people missed new stuff here, so i decided to restart blogging again about web development, graphics, handy tools, design and 3D.

So may you yourself how my desktop looks like, here is a screeny of it:

I'm using Ubuntu Lucid with hidden top panel and Gnome Do (i really love the combination as launcher and dock). I created my own theme based on the Finery theme and a much extended version of the Eikon icons.

With the release of the development snapshot of version 2.29.3 gEdit is moving forward to 2.30 which will be released in April 2010.
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote a interesting post about auto completion features that will come. Jesse van den Kieboom shows in a screencast amazing features of multiediting too.
Besides that two really nice plugins, that will improve your workflow with many files, are available at the gEdit Plugins Page: Tabs Enhanced and TabSwitch. Both allowing you to configure the behavior of the file tabs like:
* using Ctrl+Tabulator key to switch through files
* Middle click on tabs for closing files
* Closing gEdit when any file tab is closed
* Do not show file tab bar when only one file is opened

UPDATE 09/12/08:
Jesse van den Kieboom wrote an interesting post about snippets handling too.

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!

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 )

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

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

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

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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
The bad thing is i didn't get it running at the moment. May someone can create a Deb package for it .

I wrote some posts about simple color calibration, of course there are color management systems available for Linux too. One of them is the open source color management system Argyll CMS. dispcalGUI is a GUI frontend for several utilities (specifically dispcal, dispread, colprof and dispwin) of it. Using all together it allows you to calibrate and profile your display using a measurement device (of course Argyll CMS did a lot more).