by Jono Bacon | Jul 15, 2009 | Community
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...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 12, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
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...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 11, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
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...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 27, 2009 | Ubuntu
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...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 25, 2009 | Community
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...