by Jono Bacon | Jan 14, 2010 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Something we have been spending some time working on in this cycle has been fixing the mess that is the system tray. This is based upon an [awesome specification submitted to Freedesktop by KDE](https://www.notmart.org/misc/statusnotifieritem/index.html). The spec has...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 13, 2010 | Desktop, Ubuntu
We are currently looking for two paid home-based contractor positions in Europe or the USA to come and work at Canonical to write some upstream code to help GNOME applications fit into the full Ubuntu desktop experience. This is an awesome opportunity for talented...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 13, 2010 | Shot Of Jaq
[Shot Of Jaq](https://www.shotofjaq.org/) is a ten minute, twice-weekly technology and Open Source podcast that is specifically designed to be the *start* of the conversation. We have taken care to build an environment optimized around conversation and discussion, and...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2010 | Acire, Python Snippets
As I have blogged about recently, I have been really getting into the idea of enabling opportunistic developers to get to grips with writing applications for the Open Source desktop as easily as possible. This has including raving about the awesome...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2010 | Acire
I am pleased to announce the second release of my little project to browse, read, run and learn from a library of Python examples. This release brings us: * Examples now have syntax highlighting and use a better font for reading code. * An awesome new icon designed by...
