We’re back with another fun-filled episode of “How long till Gnome has a single button as it’s only feature?”. On today’s episode, Gnome has removed the ability to toggle between the text-based location bar and breadcrumbs with the touch of a button. This has always been a handy feature in nautilus for quickly navigating to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gnome’
My first bug fix
Posted: 18th March 2010 by leftyfb in Daily Accomplishments, linux, technology, ubuntuTags: accomplishments, bug, computers, gnome, linux, technology, ubuntu, usability
Continuing on from my last post. step #4 fix the problem. So it turns out that the way in which the icons were being displayed wasn’t exactly incorrect. We were just letting the “gtk-menu-images” overwrite us and not show the menu icons for the application. The solution is in gtk_image_menu_item_set_always_show_image (). This forces the display [...]
Trying my hand at developing & bug fixing
Posted: 18th March 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntuTags: bug, computers, gnome, linux, lucid, technology, ubuntu, usability
WARNING: I am NOT a developer One of the first applications I like to install on a fresh build of ubuntu is called gSTM or “Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager”. This allows me to setup and enable multiple ssh tunnels to/from different places with the click of a button. It provides a nice notification area icon [...]
what did icons ever do to you anyway?
Posted: 24th February 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntuTags: gnome, linux, technology, ubuntu
Here’s another reason why removing menu icons in Gnome (as well as removing the choice to turn them back on) is a bad idea. What about the 3rd party applications that rely on menu icons that are now turned off by default with no easy way for the average user to turn them back on? [...]