Mar 15, 2006
After reading this post I have now switched from firefox to epiphany. I would have done so earlier if this was hyped during the (or Davyd's) 2.14 release notes!
My favorite features (so far) are
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Extensions (especially integration with liferea)
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When a page cannot epiphany offers the GCace or Archive.org version
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Starts faster
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Taggable style bookmarks!
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Deskbar integration
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Download manager (with notification area icon)
I would recommend any gnomie out there to switch to epiphany today!
Mar 13, 2006
Just upgraded to flight 5 and feeling quite positive about the state of ubuntu. Suspend is working agin on my laptop, and so is the SD card slot. I have included a screenshot below.
Also I plan to do a review of my laptop at some stage in the near future (Panasonic CF-R4).
Mar 12, 2006
With the great help of those on the Ubuntu forums XGL/Compiz is looking greater than ever. The Updated Compiz adds the opacity plugin and darkens the background for the expose effects. But better than that, the Updated XGL removes all the flicker that I was seeing.
Mar 7, 2006
Well, all the cool kids are doing it so I thought that I better have a go. XGL and compiz run on my integrated i915 video without problems and I am amazed at the speed and quality for pre-alpha software.
After all of the hassle of building Compiz and friends (excluding XGL) from CVS I found this and this (includes new opacity plugin).
Mar 2, 2006
Just started hacking on my attempt to implement some sort of more modern documentation system for the gnome user guide.
So far this involves a few components; a modified version of moinmoin 1.5, a hacked version of yelp with xml-rpc support, and some python scripts.
Basically the idea is that moinmoin now supports docbook generation and has a nice xml-rpc interface. So the idea is that periodically the wiki version of the gnome-user-guide is crawled and docbook is generated. Also, yelp can fetch the latest version of the documentation from the wiki and display it.
A bit of work to go but a nice project covering lots of disiplines
Feb 20, 2006
Well by virtue of having a working jhbuild install of Gnome 2.13.91 I have volunteered myself to update the nautilus section of the gnome user docs. Well what a Job that is shaping up to be!
I have been rewriting a lot of the docs and taking a heap of (matching) screen shots along the way so when I finish (which will be in a day or two) the new user guide will be rocking!
Feb 18, 2006
Well after a little bit of fluffing around, but an otherwise streamlined build process I got a installation of Gnome 2.13.91 going. Thanks a lot to the following links
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDCustomizationHowTo
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveCd_2fHowTo
The first thing I notice about the new version: fast! Nautilus and startup have become a lot faster. I really like the eog simplification that has gone on, and the fusa stuff seems to work really well. I will go and file a few bugs about the operation of nautilus and the blinging new search feature.
Now I can move onto the next step of my "automated livecd using jhbuild master plan"
Feb 17, 2006
Well I spent most of the afternoon trying to get Gnome 2.13.91 (2.14 Beta 2) to build. The first problem was with libxklavier. The version in jhbuild fails to build, I filed this bug but in the meantime replacing with libxklavier2.1 fixes it.
The only other problem is with epiphany which fails to build. It cannot find iso-codes. I actually think the problem is with iso-codes because running in jhbuild shell, it cannot be found. Maybe iso-codes make install is broken.
Anyway tomorrow I will have a go at building jhbuild in chroot (im trying to get a working GnomeLiveCD from using jhbuild). More on that later
