Promoting ubuntu softwares via facebook.

Here is a good news for ubuntu users who are using facebook. If you using facebook you can download and share ubuntu applications in easy way. "Jim Mendenhall" created a new facebook application call ubuntuapps using Ruby on Reils. This will make useful ubuntu application community in facebook. You can find more informations in his blog.

Enlightenment (E17)-Installation,customization and using.

About:

Enlightenment is a too eye-candy desktop shell and window manager. It is founded by Enlightenment organization. The first version of Enlightenment is released by "Carsten Haitzler" on 1996-10-30.

Enlightenment has two main window manages call E16(DR16) and E17(DR17). E17 is richer than E16. All functions and events of E16 can handle without mouse input. It is a main feature of E16 window manager. also it has grid of workspaces call virtual desktops. unlike gnome, each desktop with difference backgrounds and can set difference wallpapers.

E17 is fully functional system as I said above. It is themable (menus,dock,desktop,windows,icons,etc.) , icons on desktop, specially it has modules like KDE gadgets.

how I think you have a basic idea about Enlightenment. if you want to know about additional details see Enlightenment home page.


Usage:

Currently Enlightenment is using with difference environments. Live CDs are good option for beginners. There are 2 main Live CD series call Elive and OpenGEU. Elive is based on Debian GNU/LINUX and OpenGEU is based on ubuntu. Now you can download latest version of Elive+compiz. It is rich with compiz, Emerld, Syanaptic, and Hundred of open source applications.

Elive+compiz

Open GEU also has a live CD. You can download the current version of "OpenGEU 8.10 - Luna Serena" but it has not embeded compiz. Here is some screen shots and videos of OpenGEU.

Installation:

Now I'm going to guide about installation E17 for your current distribution. There are many options and packages for installation. Now i'm trying to install Enlightenment for ubuntu 9.04 jaunty. Because there is no easy and proper installation option for ubuntu in Enlightenment download page.

Now time to install. Open terminal and consider follow steps.

Here is the steps.

1. add the repository.

sh -c 'echo "## Enlightenment e17
deb http://packages.enlightenment.org/ubuntu jaunty main extras" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

2. import the key.

wget -q http://packages.enlightenment.org/repo.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

3. update.

sudo apt-get update

4. install.

sudo apt-get install e17

If you properly installed E17 then log out and choose "Enlightenment" from session list in login window. now login in your usual way.

Cheers!! If you can see a window like this.

so now our next step is customization.


Customize:

1. download wallpaper and set.

Enlightenment desktop supports to animated wallpapers. but this feature is not in gnome or other desktop environment. you can download animated wallpapers from here, here and here. also static backgrounds are in those wab sites.

To set wallpaper go to

System -> Settings -> wallpaper

Then choose your download wallpaper using "Picture.." button.

3. download theme and set.

The special feature of this window manager is using beautiful animated themes. You can download themes from above web sites.

setting theme.

System -> Settings -> Theme

Then import your downloaded theme.

Also you can download modules, icons, tools using same way from same web sites.

4. Compiz.

Compiz is also a window manager. now I think you wonder how to compiz and enlightenment are combine. because both are window managers. there is a good solution for embed to E17. It is "Ecomorph". ecomorph is a OpenGL compositing window manager for X11 that allows Compiz effects to Enlightenment DR17.

There is a good installation guide for ecomorph in their google home page.

my Enlightenment desktop:


now I assume you read full and short article about Enlightenment. If I forget something apologise me and All of your comments are welcome.

New logo for firefox 3.5

You already know that Mozilla 3.5 beta is available. Now mozilla foundation ready to give new logo with firefox 3.5. The full article about new logo is in Alex Faaborg's blog. Alex Faaborg is the Principal Designer of firefox.






New firefox logo is created as stronger 3d look than old one. the main differences is "Blue globe" and "fox tail".

The firt firefox logo is designed by Steven Garrity in October 2003. He Sketched it roughly and it is used with firefox 0.8 version.




here is the past logs of firefox and evolution.



you can download this logo from Firefox Wiki with various types.

Add new Items to Nautilus right-click menu and Run Gloobus.

As you already know Nautilus is the main file manager in Gnome. Do you know that nautilus is highly customizable File manager? well. now I am going to discuss a good customizable property in nautilus. I already said about it in topic which is add new menu items to nautilus right click menu.

First of all, you want to download a small software call "Nautilus Action". ubuntu users can download via the software repositories using follow command.

sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions

others can download source package or rpm packages as your wish.

If you finished download and install then you can find it on System->Preferences->Nautilus Action Configuration.

Now you can see it's main window like this.




To add new menu item for Nautilus right-click menu click "Add" button. when you get "Add New Item" window as follows add these details call,

Label: menu item name which will be appear in Nautilus right-click menu.
Tooltip: tooltip of the menu item.
icon: which is own by menu item. in this I selected "gtk-help" icon. but you can select your own icon. but remember Large icons will be freeze Nautilus.




hmm... now we want to set path of Gloobus. Add new profile or edit default profile call "Main". set it's name Glooobus or your favourite. but I still set it as Main. now click Edit.

fill folow details.
path: /usr/bin/gloobus this is a location of gloobus main binary files/core.
Parameters: %d




now your configuration is completed. see right click on a item in nautilus. did you get like this?

Gloobus - The future of Linux file managers.

how many of you familiar with MAC OS X?

today I am trying to introduce a new (little bit old :) but new for me) fancy software. it's just Gloobus. Gloobus is a extension for Gnome to visualize Mac OS like File Browser. If you are not familier with Mac OS see this video.

The special fature of Gloobus is supportable of various file extensions. currently it supports to TXT , PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, MP3, OGG, MPG, WMV, XCF file types.

you can see more videos from here.

currently gloobus is under development. now you can download Gloobus 0.4. Still it has many bugs. it is not compleatly embeded to Nautilus. One solution is Clutter which is developing by John Stowers. see his blog.

Follow ubuntu Brainstorm and Gloobus blog for more details.


installation:
download Gloobus.
Extract File.
go to extracted directory.
if your architecture i386 then go to i386. otherwise amd64
install gloobus-preview___.deb then gloobus___.deb (simply double click or use " sudo dpkg -i " in terminal)


Here is mine. :)

Karmic Backgrounds.

Now you can download new Karmic Backgrounds from ubuntu Art Work Team. most of the time one of a background wallpaper will be a default wallpaper in ubuntu 9.10.

ubuntu is trying to release a special feature of extra wallpaper package other than default wallpapers for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). Some OS (vista,Mac..) provides beautiful additional wallpapers for users. but ubuntu users want to get aditional wallpapers from another places. that is the main reason for this work.

you can upload new wallpaper photo pack to ubuntu Karamic Backgrounds with following guildlines.


Design:
- Abstract imagery
- No strong logo usage (recommended)
- No other recognizable/readable text
- No mascots preferred (prove me wrong)
- Avoid parallel lines due to moire problems when scaling
- Be aware of how shapes relate within the whole desktop layout with panels, icons on the desktop, etc.
- No photography, unless heavily edited, stylized. No pictures of recognizable people/places/popular items



Here is my collection which is download from some web sites and ubuntu ArtWork

Bug #1

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world’s population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Here I am discussing about bug #1 that above said. This is the first bug in the Launchpad which is reported by "Mark Shuttleworth" who is the founder of Canonical Ltd. and leader of the ubuntu.

you can find more about this bug from launchpad and this bug contain this message.

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Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Steps to repeat:

1. Visit a local PC store.

What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

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Canonical's main purpose is fix this bug. that's why they created a operating system like this. currently ubuntu did not fixed yet. but it is in progress and marked as critical in Importance. it says someday if it fixed in ubuntu which represents majority of PC s in the world. it is the ultimate goal of ubuntu which can build a better freedom.