Posts tagged desktop

Ubatar and the Ubuntu App Showdown

Jul 8th

The last 3 weeks I was working on developing an application to participate in a contest called Ubuntu App Showdown.
My application is called Ubatar and its main objective is to provide a solution to this idea. Here you can see some videos of the latest version of Ubatar fulfilling its purpose.

During these 3 weeks I learned many things, reading a lot of source code, looking for examples and discussing with other developers.
I can only say that I really enjoyed and was an incredible experience.
Thanks to all the Ubuntu development team and the community at large.

And this is not the end of the project, there are still many things to improve, if you want to help please contact me via this form. Also any questions or suggestions can be sent to Questions for Ubatar in Launchpad.

desktop, python, ubatar, ubuntu

Screenkey 0.2 released!

Jun 16th

Posted by Pablo in Development

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A few days ago I released the first version of Screenkey which was reviewed positively by OMG! Ubuntu!, Korben and Linux und Ich.

Now, I’m happy to announce the release of Screenkey 0.2. This release includes

A preferences dialog to adjust size and position
Two keyboard modes (normal and raw)
Command line options (see –help)
Some bug fixes

The next release will include support for Launchpad translations, save session to file and more keyboard modes (specific vim and emacs key bindings).

Thanks to Ivan Makfinsky for Fedora packaging and thanks to everyone who reported problems and made suggestions for improvement!

desktop, gnome, python, screenkey

Metacity Window Buttons

Mar 10th

Posted by Pablo in Development

1 comment

Una simple herramienta para configurar los botones de Metacity (el window manager del escritorio GNOME).
Si estas usando Ubuntu Karmic Koala y querés configurar los botones para que se vean como en la nueva versión Lucid Lynx. O si usas Lucid Lynx y querés volver la configuración al estilo de Karmic Koala, lo podés hacer sin tener que usar el editor de configuraciones de GNOME (gconf-editor).
Me parece muy bueno el cambio en los botones de las ventanas para la nueva versión de Ubuntu, para hacerlo diferente, único. Costará un poco adaptarse pero es como todo, por eso yo ya cambié el estilo de los botones en mi Karmic . De todas formas si a alguien no le gusta lo puede cambiar a su gusto, incluso si lo preferís, podés sacar todos los botones de las ventanas

Este es el enlace a la página de descarga.
Y estos son los pasos para descargarlo y ejectuarlo desde una terminal

wget http://launchpad.net/mwbuttons/trunk/v0.2/+download/mwbuttons
chmod +x
./mwbuttons

La aplicación esta hosteada en Launchpad y la idea inicial fue solo para probar el módulo gconf de Python y el plugin de Launchpad para Bazaar.

desktop, gnome, python, ubuntu

Pimp your GNOME Desktop

Jan 19th

Posted by Pablo in Linux

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The real title of this post should have been Pimp your Metacity, but not everyone knows that Metacity is the official window manager of GNOME.

This is just a modified version of the default theme in Ubuntu Karmic Koala. The main difference is that the minimize, maximize and close window bottons has been removed. They are only activated by mouseover.

It is useful for users who already know the position of the window buttons in GNOME and all the time use keyboard shortcuts to manage the windows. And especially useful on small screens like netbooks where there is not enough space avaliable to display redundant things.

The Human Simple theme can be downloaded from GNOME-Look http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=118052