http://www.cimitan.com/blog Italians do it Better... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:59:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I got an invitation for Jolicloud, I was really excited about that project and I'm really happy for this opportunity to test it. Jolicloud is not the first Linux distribution I have installed on my Samsung NC10... I've tested also Ubuntu Jaunty/Karmic, Fedora, Arch Linux and Moblin (latest snapshot). Which is ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/07/02/jolicloud-preview/ After having tried thousands of different drivers, kernel versions, patches etc etc... I've finally found a combination that made me excited (wohoo!). I own a Samsung NC10 with an Intel Atom N270 and an Intel GMA 950 (i945). I'm running both Arch Linux (i686) and Ubuntu jaunty (lpia). Few notes: This how ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/06/28/get-a-dramatic-2d-graphics-boost-on-your-netbook/ I had an idea, I don't remember exactly who asked me for it (maybe Gyb), but it is really simple: rename all menubarstyle, toolbarstyle, menuitemstyle (etc etc...) into style[menubar], style[toolbar], style[menuitem]... same thing for other options (color[scrollbar], color[focus], shade[lightborder] etc etc...). We actually need to write a little parser for ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/06/13/an-idea-for-murrine-and-then-clearlooks-too/ I've just created the official group (I mean, the first and so the official :) ) "GNOME Italia" on Facebook... Here's the link, if you want to share it and join it: GNOME Italia on Facebook Ho appena creato il gruppo ufficiale (o meglio, il primo e quindi ufficiale :) ) "GNOME ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/06/12/gnome-italia-facebook-group/ Just a small post about linux on the Samsung NC10. Ubuntu Jaunty is out (it has some issues) and for a better linux experience with this netbook there's a PPA and a Forum (I signed up today, it has both an English and an Italian section)! So, if you are a NC10 ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/04/23/samsung-nc10s-ubuntu-ppa-and-linux-forum/ Today should be released GNOME 2.26.0? Yes, so congrats to us! :-) Talking about Murrine, I've released 0.90.1 and 0.90.2 which contains mainly bugfixes. 0.90.1 was relased with a typo (sorry!!!) which caused a crash, thanks bitzer for pointing that out. Changelog for 0.90.1 Changes in this release: - High roundness values are now correctly ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/03/18/murrine-0901-and-happy-gnome-2260/ Murrine is a Gtk+ engine, written in C language, using cairo vectorial graphics library. By default it comes with a modern glassy look, elegant and clean on the eyes. But it is also extremely customizable, and allows the user to achieve an incredible variety of styles. Wow, new rockin' release! Enjoy. Download the ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/03/16/murrine-0900-is-out/ UPDATE: should be out soon http://download.gnome.org/sources/murrine/0.90/ I'm still not sure but maybe I will publish a Murrine development release in this weekend (with development I mean it won't be called 1.0, maybe 0.90 or similar). I'd like to have it included in Jaunty, because ubuntu is actually shipping an old bugged svn ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/03/15/murrine-development-release-in-the-weekend/ I may have some time this weekend and the next weeks to continue working on both Clearlooks and Murrine GTK+ engines. I need ideas ;) This post remembers you that I've opened a section where you can easily submit your mockups for Murrine. Use gnome bugzilla for Clearlooks. http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/02/18/mockups-for-gtk-themes/ Here you can find an example of the "pulseaudio glitches" we (unlucky netbook's owners) hear. I decided to reinstall pulseaudio, because I share Lennart's idea that it's better to start fixing drivers and applications as soon as we can: it's useless, imho, to stop freesoftware's development just because vendors/drivers/applications are bugged. Some ... http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2009/02/05/pulseaudio-glitches-and-cpu-usage-netbooks-with-hda-intel-by-realtek/