Learning To Listen

Learning To Listen

One of the attributes in the Free Software, Open Source and Free Culture world that I am most proud of is the seeming openness and accessibility in the patch-work of communities that form this inspiring landscape. Every day we hear wonderful stories of people joining...
Icon Theme Hacking Progress

Icon Theme Hacking Progress

Quick update on my icon hacking. I have now figured out a way to get most of my notification icons to have broadly the right color. It used to look like this: Now it looks like this: To do this I first copied my *Human* icon, edited `theme.index` to change the name of...
Desktop Theming and Icons

Desktop Theming and Icons

For some time now there has been a general move over to darker themes in GNOME-land. I have tried a bunch of themes here and there but I have always moved back to the default Ubuntu theme: I always found the dark theme less usable and harder to look at in my day to...
Tracking Ubuntu Community Issues

Tracking Ubuntu Community Issues

Recently [Melissa wrote a post](https://www.geekosophical.net/?p=273) about how we track problems with community, and how she feels that blogging about community problems is a reasonable approach. As part of her post she says: > Blogging about problems we see in our...
Icon Theme Hacking Progress

VMWare: Rock and Roll

In a world where most companies would give their hind teeth to get your email address into their marketing database, it was refreshing to see this from [VMWare](https://vmware.com/): > Thank you for your past interest in VMware. As part of our routine scheduled...