Raphaël Slinckx

Month: March 2006

  • Epiphany is hype, get over it

    Ploum writes about epiphany 2.14, and explain why it’s the best browser for gnome. To make it short, here is a summary of the killer features in epiphany 2.14 Easy RSS subscription, integration with gnome programs (liferea, blam, straw) “Tagged” Bookmarks management (very Web 2.0) Adblock extension working out of the box HIG and gnome…

  • Deskbar/Beagle screencast and call for volunteers

    Deskbar and beagle screencast Following up to my previous post, Bjørn Haagensen – a long time deskbar tester – has contributed a screencast of deskbar and beagle integration, this time in GIF (made with byzanz). Warning: the screencast is eating all my RAM, so i can’t view it. I guess i can blame gecko for…

  • Deskbar 2.14

    There it is, we finally released the final 2.14 version of deskbar for the general audience ! Nigel made an excellent comment and a screencast (flash) (mirror) showcasing some current deskbar capabilities. I’m glad to see that the gnome community is loving it, and using it ! THANKS !

  • Deskbar and leaftag, last-exit

    Desktop 2.0 Just because the blog writer is open i feel the need to post a screenshot of deskbar working with leaftag (it’s all betaware, but.. it r0cks !) Choose one or more files, right-click and Tag Enter the tags with an Ãœber cool dialog Summon deskbar enter a tag, and voila ! Desktop 2.0…

  • DBus Testing Framework

    Hello dbus coders out here, i’m pleased to announce the first release of a dbus testing framework. What is it ? You may know that testing dbus services or debugging dbus clients is not always easy since it involves creating services and wiring up things you don’t really want to do in a test script.…

  • Epiphany URL entry in monospace

    This is a nice trick i didn’t know about. If you ever wanted to have a monospaced font for your location entry in epiphany (it works with galeon too), because monospace is nice, and easier to correct, and you can spot errors, here is how: Put this in a file called ~/.gnome2/epiphanyrc: style “mono” {…