by Jono Bacon | Aug 3, 2009 | Community, Desktop
A little while back I spent some time in beautiful Gran Canaria at the inaugural [Gran Canaria Desktop Summit](https://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/). This was the first event of its kind to bring together developers from the two major desktops, KDE and GNOME. As...
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 | Feb 17, 2009 | Community, Desktop
Am I the only one who is getting a little tired of all the bickering over version control in the GNOME community? I was under the impression that *GNOME is people*, not *GNOME is people (who argue over which way you skin a cat)*. Version control is important, and it...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 15, 2008 | Desktop
I decided recently to give a new mail client a whirl. [Evolution](https://projects.gnome.org/evolution/), while an excellent client, appears to be a bit clunky with IMAP. I specifically have all of my mail go through GMail, and I access with IMAP. Evolution seems to...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 15, 2008 | Community, Desktop
No blogging for a week. Was this due to lazyness? No. Was this due to writers block? No. So what was the reason? Well obviously it was because of the grandiose duo of crime-fighting elegance that was [FossCamp](https://fosscamp.org/) and the [Ubuntu Developer...
