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• April 19, 2008
• 13:58

  The Linux Action Show! Season 8 Episode 6 - OGG

   » ‎ LAS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  This week on, The Linux Action Show!

  Red Hat drops a desktop related bomb that relates to their future plans relating to desktop LINUX, WE DISCUSS! HP Has a new eeePC competitor that they expect big, big sales from - Another super awesome Linux laptop? Okay by me.

  We give you some follow up coverage on the new VMware beta, and discuss the controversial Open Source Terrorism!!!

  THEN -

  We review the Linux based Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, and we take bundle of your questions!

  GoDaddy.com has a discount offer for our listeners: $6.95 .COM domain names at GoDaddy.com!

  This weeks links:

  Contact Air, runs Linux Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough VIA Announces Open Source Driver Initiative HP Unveils Small Commercial Linux Laptop openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta Release Notes Nokia Demo Pictures @LAS Flickr Page Linux Fest Northwest! Meet up with Bryan and Chris!

  Want to embrace your inner geek? Then check out CastaBlasta, the boys mix tech, gaming, science fiction, geek reviews, and amazing stories in a way that’s funnier than it should be in this twice a month Show, get a good dose of top nerdertainment! Take a listen at CastaBlasta.com!

  Note:
  You can find the OGG version of every episode here.

• 12:19

  Default artwork - Mint 5

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  We’ve experimented with Aurora GTK engines and created some futuristic themes. We’ve looked at Carbon and made something a lot of people liked but although a few themes ended up looking great we still haven’t found anything to replace the default artwork. So we’re now taking a different approach which consists of improving the Daryna artwork by making subtle changes to it. Have a look below and please give us as much feedback as possible on this.

  This is how widgets (”widget” means graphical element. Buttons, progress bars, combos are widgets for instance) looked like in Daryna:

  

  This is how these same widgets look like after we made some changes:

  

  And these are the changes we made:

  

  To illustrate the differences, here is mintUpdate running with the Daryna look:

  

  And here is how it looks like with the changes:

  

  I’m personally happy about the sliders taken from Clearlooks. That’s definitely an improvement IMHO. I’m not sure whether I prefer the gradients or the original for the tabbed folders. I like the lighter blue and the additional contrast but I’m afraid there’s too much contrast in the newer theme.. I also like the dotted separation between columns in the mintUpdate table. Finally, the highlighting (especially on the buttons) looks like a wave and that’s fine, but now that the contrast shows that more in detail, maybe we can opt for a straight highlight instead. Oh.. and note how widgets are still rounded, but not as much as before.

  Please tell us what you think. Not just whether you like it or not, but in detail what you think is better, what you think isn’t, and why and how you would improve it. Don’t hesitate to save these pictures locally so you can quickly look at them and compare them in fullscreen mode.

  PS: Other themes will be available as alternative choices, installed by default also.

• 8:44

  Linux Mint w wielu językach!

   » ‎ linuxmint.pl (pl)

  Twórcy dystrybucji Linux Mint poinformowali, że w kolejnym wydaniu - Linux Mint 5 Elyssa, narzędzia mint tools, które dotychczas były tylko w języku angielskim, zostaną przetłumaczone na kilka języków, w tym polski.

   

  W pełni wspierane będą następujące języki: Angielski, Francuski, Hiszpański, Niemiecki, Włoski, Polski, “Brazylijski” (jako pt_BR), Rosyjski, Szwedzki, Turecki i Ukraiński. Z kolei 10 innych języków (Bułgarski, Duński, Grecki, Irlandzki (galijski), Norweski “no”, Norweski “nb”, Holenderski, Portugalski (pt_PT), Słowacki i Serbski) będą częściowo wspierane ponieważ nie wszystkie narzędzia zostały na nie przetłumaczone.

   

  Inne języki również są wspierane przez system (jak w poprzednich wersjach Linux Mint) ale z mint tools po angielsku.