Eckhard M. Jäger

What's your Hardy tips for design and web development?

Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:42:04 AM

[/img]Yesterday i switched to Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 and it runs straight forward - very cool at all! Exploring it i found some interesting things:
- Pimp up your Gimp: Check out the Package gimp-plugin-registry
This package will add 14 plugins and inludes a batch converter too

- Search in Synaptic for "Gimp" you will find more additional plugins
like ufraw, gtkam-gimp, gimp-data-extras, pandora

- If you have the vector drawing software Inkscape installed install UniConverter
too so you can open and save much more vector file formats

- if you are a fanboy of the Tango icons goto /usr/share/inkscape/icons and
* rename as root icons.svg to old_icons.svg
* make a copy of tango_icons.svg and rename it to icons.svg
* next time running Inkscape you have a nicer interface

- if you are using gEdit for web development install the package gedit-plugins too,
after it enable all the plugins in the preferences for a very powerfull gEdit

Tell me your tips

Photoline 14.51Blender 2.46 RC3

Comments

Anonymous # Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:21:40 PM

WorldMaker writes: Love the tango icons tip. Someone should hack Inkscape to auto-configure that when the GTK theme changes.

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Friday, May 2, 2008 9:13:47 AM

@WorldMaker

Great idea, please submit it to the inkscape community or the developers:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+filebug/+login

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Friday, May 2, 2008 1:05:48 PM

TIP 5: May some of you have checked that the location "fonts:///" did not work in Gnome 2.22.1 (but will working in future again), so you can install fonts easily with that Nautilus Script:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Automated+Fonts+Installer?content=67771

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Thursday, May 8, 2008 8:14:43 AM

TIP 6: Phatch a standalone GUI Photo Batch Processor
install the package "phatch"

Anonymous # Thursday, May 8, 2008 7:16:27 PM

Chris writes: Get previews of AI files in nautilus (two cammands - watch out for wrapping lines) : gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@illustrator/command -t string "evince-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o" gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@illustrator/enable -t boolean "True"

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:25:48 PM

TIP 7: Install the package ICC-Profiles to get color profiles for Gimp & Co. Download the free Adobe color profiles too: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=62&platform=Windows and copy them into "~/.color/icc" to getting some profiles more

Anonymous # Tuesday, October 7, 2008 1:08:44 AM

Inkscaper writes: You don't have to touch anything in system dir to change Inkscape icons, just copy tango_icons.svg to ~/.inkscape/icons/icons.svg (or ~/.config/Inkscape/icons/icons.svg for Inkscape from recent SVN). And btw - keep in mind that those new icons take much more RAM than standard ones. TIP 8: Install "create-resources" package - should give you more gimp brushes/gradients/palletes TIP 9: Install fontmatrix to manage system fonts