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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "software"

OpenOffice gets a new Interface

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The project Renaissance startet, its goal is a new, intuitive interface for OpenOffice or how they descibed themeself: "Create a User interface so that OpenOffice.org becomes the users' choice not only out of need but also out of desire.".
As Frank Loehmann at the Sun-Blog wrote the project is in the beginning. Everybody is invited to tell the team more about the pros and cons of the existing user interface.

What is a good UI?

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What is intuitive and easy to use interface? Is a better interface always a different solution of existing standards? The IT news website Golem interviewed Aza Raskin, which is since August this year "Head of User Experience" at the Mozilla Labs.

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Gnomefiles is back!

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Whoo-Hoo - Gnomefiles is back! It was hard to read that after it get hacked it may didn't come back. But it does. Thanks Eugenia!

Gnomefiles is offline

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...and may not return :frown: Those wondering what happens check out Eugenia's post.

UPDATE: When Gnomefiles.org is gone it is time to make http://www.gtk-apps.org famous. Drop the developers of your favorite Gnome app a line about it :smile: So we get in future an up-to-date Gnome software directory.

C U on Monday

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Meet me at the Ubuntu Berlin Graphics Workshop

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In the evening of the 14th Juli i have a talk about open source graphic software and Ubuntu. The workshop is about web design, print, vector graphics, imageing & photos and 3D. It is organized by Ubuntu Berlin with support of the c-base. If you like we can meet us there!
Update: Here is the official appointment :smile:

Vote for your favorite design app!

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Have you visited Hackontest and voted for your favorite design app and the most lovely ideas? If not do it now!

Season of Usability 2008

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Hey youngsters and students it is your time for Season of Usability 2008. Getting involved and make open source software better!

Wine 1.0

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After 15 years of development and 5 release candidates Wine is published today as 1.0. In the release candidate phase so many bugs were fixed and Wine runs really smooth now my favorite Windows apps. If you ever had problems with older versions of Wine you should give it a try again :smile:
Read my post about the smoothest way getting you Windows app running too.

Wine 1.0 RC1

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Wine 1.0 RC1 is now available for download. After 15 years of development it is planed to publish Wine on the 6th of June as final. Help the Wine project finding bugs and getting 1.0 stable.
Here is a short howto:

* Make sure Wine 1.0 RC1 and your favorite Windows app are installed
* Open a terminal and start your application with
env WINEPREFIX="~/.wine" wine "C:\Path\To\Your\app.exe"
* Check the output in the terminal and copy it per action via Ctrl+C into a text editor
(an example http://www.neeneenee.de/wine_photoline1451.txt)
* Go to the Wine bugtracker create a account or login
* First make sure the bug isn't submited yet
* If the bug exist create a comment and append a link to your textfile of the output

If you do not have any Wine experience check out my post "Getting your Windows app running on Linux in a easy way". You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

Getting your Windows app running on Linux in a easy way on Ubuntu

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Here is the summary of my talk about WINE at the Ubuntu Hardy Heron release party Berlin. It includes all links and describes the best way getting an app like Photoshop running smooth.

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Google Summer of Code Project's

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