#sh Blog - Entries tagged as GNOME

Ubuntu Jaunty (9.10) has the nice new dark look for the status icons. But this is only working if you use the "Humanity-Dark" icon theme.

I wanted to have another icon theme, but keep the nice dark status icons. So I had a look at the Humanity-Dark icon folder in /usr/share/icons/ and discovered, that this is only an overlay of the normal Humanity icon theme. So this overlay could be used for my favourite icon theme as well. So I just made a copy of the Humanity-Dark folder (if you want to make a new folder in /usr/share/icons you have to be root of course) and changed the name of the new folder to Colors-Dark (because I want to inherit from the gnome colors theme). In the Colors-Dark folder you have to modify the index.theme file, to use another theme than the Humanity one. First you should change the name to avoid confusion. For example Name=Colors-Dark. After that the important part comes: change the inherit value to your prefered icon theme. For example Inherits=gnome-wise if you want to use gnome wise. That's already everything you have to do. If there is any icon-cache file you better remove and recreate it. You can use gtk-update-icon-cache to create a new cache. Now you have your nice new icons being used, when you choose the Colors-Dark theme, but the dark ubuntu-icons stay.

A new version of GNOME-Do was just released a few days ago. I already tried it and the new Docky is quite a nice idea. Docky is the new big feature in Do, which offers a panel with starters on it. It's already quite nice to use, and almost ready for productive use. If you already like Do you should give it a try! There are already packages for most Linux-Distros, even a repository for Ubuntu. Have fun!

Note: You have to resart the Do-Deamon before the new features are available.

I also made a Screenshot.

Banshee 1.0 was finally released a few days ago. Yesterday I got it installed on my Ubuntu machine. Ubuntu Debs are already there too available in the Banshee Ubuntu repository.
If you have tried Banshee and didn't like it in the earlier versions, you should give it another shot it's really worth trying. Except of the brilliant last.fm integration we heard about already, it has many other improvements too and finally we have an Artist/Album browser as well!

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The new GNOME clock/weather-applet somtimes has different opinions when it comes to temperature. Like in this case:


I think the temperature in the Tooltip is the right one. The 1°C in the panel itself didn't change over the past few hours...

Die neue Version GNOME 2.22 wurde heute offiziell freigegeben. Eine Übersicht der Neuerungen findet man auf dieser Seite. Ich glaube ich sollte mal wieder mein Ubuntu upgraden...

Da seit ich auf Ubuntu Gutsy aktualisiert hatte das Screenlets-Repository für deb-Pakete nicht mehr erreichbar war, hatte ich mir bisher Screenlets nicht wieder installiert. Heute musste ich jedoch feststellen, dass http://hendrik.kaju.pri.ee/ubuntu/ wieder erreichbar ist. Somit habe ich nun Screenlets wieder am laufen und habe dafür natürlich auch Compiz-Fusion wieder aktiviert. Ansonsten funktioniert die Transparenz ja auch nicht.
Nach der Installation macht es Sinn, sich noch ein paar weitere Screenlets von gnome-look.org herunter zu laden. Dort gibt es auch ein Paket mit einer Auswahl an Screenlets.

Und zur Feier des Tages habe ich natürlich auch noch gleich ein paar Screnshots angefertigt, die es nun in meiner Galerie zu bestaunen gibt.



Hier gibt es übrigens noch weitere aktuelle Screenshots meines Compiz Desktops.