Linux for Designers

Surfing around at Planet Gnome brings me to Gloobus, a nice and handy preview addon inspired by the preview of Mac OS X and Coverflow. For me the most interesting part is the Coverflow effect integration into Nautilus.
The bad news is that witout rebuilding Nautilus only the normal Gloobus 0.4 is available as a Deb archive. A really nice goody is that is install GTK PixBuf Loader for support of Photoshop PSD and GIMP XCF files to the entire Gnome desktop. So any Gnome graphics viewer (like EOG, F-Spot or gThumb) can preview these formats too.

If you like these features don't forget to support the project by a donation!

I updated all my gEdit plugins to be completely localized in german or english. I added version numbers for all too, so you can easy check in the preferences which version you are using.

http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-language-reference-plugin
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-browser-preview-plugin
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-template-plugin

Happy coding!

IEs 4 Linux brings the Internet Explorer 5,6 and 7 for web developers to Linux.
Many people getting display problems when using IEs4Linux with recent wine versions (>=0.9.52), the IE toolbar disappear and others bugs happens. For that problem a little emergency release is now available.

IEs 4 Linux brings the Internet Explorer 5,6 and 7 for web developers to Linux. A while it seems nothing happens on the IEs 4 Linux project and so i didn't visit it a longer time. But the development wasn't dead and they released the version 2.99 that brings a lot of improvements and better support for Internet Explorer 7. This is the last 2.x release and we can look forward for version 3.
The installer isn't longer just a shell script it starts now with a GUI and that's really cool! If you like to install the IE 7 you have to click at the "Advanced" button.
Mike Kronenberg started last porting IEs4Linux to Mac OS X. He made all modifications to the script needed to make it run on Mac. He also macfied the install process to make it more like what Mac users expect.
Happy coding!

On my way bringing SweeTS - delicious TypoScript development to Linux, i wrote another plugin called "Browser Preview". This plugin showing the current webpage you are editing in gEdit directly in Firefox, Opera, Midori or Konquerer and the Internet Explorer 6. This plugin is completely localized in german and english.

How it works:
* you have to install all the browsers on your system
* Internet Explorer 6 support is done by IEs4Linux in standard configuration and includes path converting
* Copy the files browser.gedit-plugin and browser.py into ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
* Start gEdit and enable the plugin "Browser Preview" in the preferences
* After a restart the plugin appears in the View menu
* Assign the typical shortcuts "F12", "Ctrl+F12" etc. to the different Browsers in the menu

Download:
http://files.myopera.com/area42/files/gedit_browser_plugin.zip

gEdit plugins i wrote too:
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-language-reference-plugin
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-template-plugin
A lot of other gEdit plugins can be found here.