Debarshi Ray: Online Accounts improvements
With the new GNOME 3.5.3 release this week, it is a good time to highlight the UI/UX related patches against the Online Accounts panel that got merged recently. There isn’t much to write about because...
View ArticleMatt Domsch: logrotate and bash
It took me a while (longer that I should admit) to figure out how to make daemon processes written in bash, work properly with logrotate so that the output from bash gets properly rotated, compressed,...
View ArticleFedora-Blog.de: SELinux Update für LightDM im Anmarsch
Für die SELinux Probleme mit LightDM wird es demnächst ein Update der SELinux-Policy geben. Falls man die hier beschriebenen SELinux-Anpassungen bereits vorgenommen hat, sollte man vor der...
View ArticlePeter Jones: Another Benefit of Secure Boot
One thing we’ve heard several times during the discussions of the UEFI “Secure Boot” mechanism is that there’s no genuine security benefits. In fact there are several. The ability to guard against...
View ArticleBenjamin Otte: Where are the app developers?
Morten thinks he knows where the application developers are. But it turns out that when you don’t want apps, you don’t get any app developers either. And why would we want apps? They just break when...
View ArticleMatthias Clasen: GNOME 3.5.3 sightings
Here is another collection of things I’ve seen appear in the tarballs that are coming in for the 3.5.3 development snapshot. Accessibility is now ‘always on’. We’ve worked towards this goal ever since...
View ArticleJoergSimon: Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 26/2012
we are happy to welcome our new Fedora Ambassadorshttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Germanrs from Nicaraguamentored by Luis Bazánhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Aadityabhatia from the...
View ArticleRuna Bhattacharjee: Akademy 2012
Akademy – the annual summit of the KDE community is happening at Tallinn, Estonia this year. It’ll be the first time I’ll be attending this conference. The schedule for this 7 day summit has talks,...
View ArticleSirko Kemter: Inkscape – Kreideschmierereien
Ich habe einmal wieder einen kleinen Inkscape-Screencast produziert. Dieses Mal zeige ich, wie man mit Hilfe von LPE eine Schrift erzeugt, die wie mit Kreide geschrieben ausschaut. Viel Spaß beim...
View ArticleSayan Chowdhury: Learnt to use partial pipeline from django-social-auth
For last few days, I was working on implementing a feature where the users who log in through the social log in methods in Transifex can choose a username, when logging in for the first time....
View ArticleSeth vidal: mockremote
I’ve been working with ansible and mock to make a simpler tool for building some pkgs on a remote system. I started on ftbfs but I wanted something for a less involved build process. Essentially a...
View Articlebodhi.zazen: command line spell checking
I often edit files with command line tools such as vim and personally find spell checking invaluable. Two high yield tips I have found: VIM spell checking vim has built-in spell checking...
View ArticleLukas "lzap" Zapletal: Decibel Audio Player back in Fedora
If they told you your favourite audio player is lightweight, they lied to you. Decibel Audio Player is the one that does the right thing. It can play. You can browse directories. It can shuffle tracks...
View ArticleFedora-Blog.de: Decibel Audio Player ist zurück im Fedora Repository
Der minimalistische Audioplayer Decibel Audio Player (DAP) ist zurück im Fedora Repository, wie Lukáš Zapletal in seinem Blog breichtet. DAP wurde vor einiger Zeit aus den Fedora Repositories...
View ArticleJayson Rowe: Sublime 2 Soda Theme
Although I use Free Software anywhere and everywhere I can, one piece of non-Free software I have really grown to love is Sublime Text 2. It is simply the best text editor I have ever used, and well...
View ArticleMaria "tatica" Leandro: Eyes Exposed!!! How to take pictures of your eyes
Enlace a este post en español AQUI o en la bandera a la derecha. If you have been checking my flickr lately, you probably saw a really sharp and cool picture of my eye and I know that there might be...
View ArticleLucas Meneghel Rodrigues: Autotest 0.14.2 released!
Hi everyone, A new bugfix release of autotest was released! This release contains a number of bugfixes to problems reported by users and packagers. In particular: * Fixed bugs that were preventing to...
View ArticleAmit Shah: Changing GNOME Default Action for Low Battery
The GNOME default of ‘hibernate’ or suspend-to-disk on very low battery power isn’t optimal for many laptops — hibernate is known to be broken on several hardware setups, it frequently results in file...
View ArticleRajesh Ranjan: जून की मोज़िल्ला समर कोड पार्टी
बीते शनिवार 23 जून को सिंबायसिस जाना हुआ: मोज़िल्ला समर कोड पार्टी के सिलसिल में। अमन के साथ मोज़िल्ला लोकलाइजेशन को लेकर वहाँ बोलना था और अधिकतर लोग कंप्यूटर साइंस के छात्र थे - प्रथम वर्ष के। सायक,...
View ArticleJoshua Wulf: Using Google Chrome to debug Javascript
I've been doing a lot of Javascript development lately, and using Google Chrome web developer tools. Most modern browsers have inspectors and consoles that allow you to examine and modify the code in...
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