by Jono Bacon | Aug 19, 2006 | Advocacy, Desktop
You know, one of the things I love about the Open Source community is when people demonstrate quality in so many different areas. Every so often someone steps up and demonstrates something they have been working on that is well written, and raises the bar. You can see...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 16, 2006 | Desktop
Just a quick note. This week a new release hit the streets that seems to have gone rather unnoticed – [Glade 3 was released](https://glade.gnome.org/)! Glade has always played an important role in GNOME and GTK development, and has had a troubled past with some...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 15, 2006 | Advocacy, Community, Desktop
[MacSlow brings up some interesting points](https://macslow.thepimp.net/?p=78) in his most recent post, and although his idea about the library he suggests makes perfect sense to me, I would like to broaden out the discussion a little to explore ways in which visually...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 7, 2006 | Advocacy, Desktop
Thanks to Frans van Berckel for mailing in to tell me about [LiveSupport](https://www.campware.org/en/camp/livesupport_news/). This is a GStreamer based radio management application. Franz actually sent me the link to their [development...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 3, 2006 | Desktop, Jokosher, Usability
I read [Chris’s blog](https://chrislord.net/blog/does-alsa-suck.essay) about ALSA, and it does concern me a little. I think ALSA is most definitely the right direction for us to head in, but if users are experiencing a distinctive difference in audio quality,...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 19, 2006 | Advocacy, Desktop, Usability
As an advocate and consultant, I tend to get exposed to a rich tapestry of reasons why Open Source is great and why it is not so great. I am not going going to bother singing to the choir about the great aspects, but I instead want to discuss one of the oft heard...
