Posts Tagged ‘usability’

The Gnome war on features continues…

Posted: 23rd March 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntu
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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 [...]

My first bug fix

Posted: 18th March 2010 by leftyfb in Daily Accomplishments, linux, technology, ubuntu
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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, ubuntu
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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 [...]

ANYTHING BUT THE BUTTONS! redux

Posted: 5th March 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntu
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I was going to write up a post complaining about the new version of Ubuntu moving the close, maximize and minimize buttons from the right-hand corner to the left along with instructions for changing it back but Daviey has already done that for me. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again; They can [...]