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Inkscape se pomalu, ale jistě, blíží dalšímu stabilnímu vydání - verzi 0.44. Jako vždy v době odchytávání bugů je čas na doladění překladu a tak jsem po sobě našel i pár perliček co se Vám můžou přihodit stejně jako mě když si nebudete dávat pozor na kontext toho co překládáte

Může se vám totiž stát, že přeložíte “scale length” jako “škálovat délku” a při tom to má být “délka stupnice” nebo třeba “Number of frets” místo “Počet pražců” jako “Počet podrážděných”; Nebo taky perličky jako “String length” což mělo být “Délka struny” a ne “Délka řetězce”. (kontext: Fretboard designer skript v Inkscape pro návrh a rozložení hmatníku kytary)

Takže pro příště, když něco překládám, čtu to po sobě v programu a ne jen v .po souboru

No a nakonec, jděte a stáhněte si pre1 verzi pro váš operační systém a pomozte najít co nejvíc chyb ať si češtinu v Inkscape vyšperkujeme.

I’ve got a new harddrive purchased from toycat with 80GB of free space I thought I can put it inside my box just as a data drive but I did not realized that I already have all IDE channels occupied (10GB+40GB+DVD-ROM+DVD-RW) so I decided to put there new linux distro and give that 40GB hdd to Jana(10GB HDD has Windows installed on and I need it for some really strange reasons).
First install was bad, I told ubuntu to save grub to /dev/hdb0 (yes, it is primary slave because of stupid Windows) and then it refused to boot. After some detective work I have given it up and reinstalled it and told it to place grub to the right place (/dev/hda0). Then the customisation part has begun.

TV card (Leadtek Winfast 2000) works like a charm even with remote controller! (Jana accidentally almost turned off my computer when she was shutting down her by the same remote ) I use TVTime app to watch tv btw. After that I updated some sources in /etc/apt/sources.list and accidentally deleted “main” strings in repositories definitions… Nomed and Roxville, thank you guys for help with realizing how stupid I am After that I installed some of my favourite apps like Abiword to write some text, f-spot to organize photos, GIMP 2.3 (thanks Josh for link to .deb of GIMP 2.3) and Inkscape (an autopackage of SVN version - it has really nice new feature, I do recommend it) for some graphics stuff, Epiphany for browsing and Gnome-gmail script as default mail application, gajim as jabber client…and more and more other packages. (yes, I am making a list of my favourite apps from this blog entry )

There were some troubles getting mp3 and DVD movies working but with a help mibo at ubuntu@conf.netlab.cz (czech ubuntu help) I’ve got it working now For tomorrow, ehm, for today now I am going to customize system a bit more and transfer all data from the 40GB HDD to the new one. I hope I will have time to finish some illustrations I work on. For now the dapper on my box looks like this:

Ubuntu Dapper Drake

Update:…but cetirizini dihydrochloridum (a.k.a. Analergin, Zyrtec…) is making the hell to freeze for 24 hours.

Yesterday was celebration of 68th aniversary of the mobilisation in May, 1938 and of 61st aniversary of liberation. The programme was as usually, some aeroplanes, some military demonstrations and one supersonic surprise in the form of JAS-39 Gripen flying over the site at the beginning I filled two memory cards (196MB total) and some of chosen photos are in the photo gallery, enjoy!

p.s. I can’t wait until NATO day at September. It is so cool when Gripen is flying just over your head and the sound of his engine is vibrating all your entrails

A few minutes ago I was curious what makes such a big noise (and who will pay big penalty for flying so low with jet over the city) What a surprise when I’ve seen JAS-39 Gripen training for saturday’s celebrations! Yay, I am excited like a small boy! I have been awaiting a surprise but not a supersonic surprise!

This photo of supersonic baby is 10 minutes old

According to this information, we will probably need some earplugs tomorrow. Yaaaay!!!! I am supersonically happy

Jana’s aunt and uncle run a breeding station called Šedý vítr (Gray wind) where they breed Flander Bouvier dogs. Because the old website they have is outdated and poorly designed, she decided to redesign the site and put it on better address. Well, as you probably suspect, I am the one who did the design job Jana then converted it into XHTML+CSS+JS and uploaded to new domain http://www.sedyvitr.com. It is finally working now so we can present it to the audience.

Bouvier des Flanders is big but clever breed of dogs suitable also for family with kids(at least they say). The truth is that dogs were kind and happy during the photo session we took to get some good photos for design. You can see some photos of these dogs in photogallery

p.s. the website is completelly in czech language with exception of main page, sorry for english readers.

Yeah! I’ve felt absolutelly in love with this piece of software. The grouping of MUC and ordinary chat windows into single and tabbed one, ability to create multicontacts, invisible mode, avatars in the rooster, (new icq transport icons by me ), simple and well-arranged GUI… these and other features caused that I’ve tried to install Gajim 0.10 also on my laptop with Windows and it works!

After some attempts in the past, I’ve been afraid that it will not work(as usually when I install/work with any python using software; that language does not like me) but it simply works(TM) I’ve downloaded the installer package without GTK+ libs because I have them already in the system because of GIMP and installed. What a surprise it was when it run like a charm And it is confirmed now that tt can use these latest GTK+ libs from GIMP with no problems(at least it looks like).

Things I am thinking about now are to draw my own full iconset for all default/transport statuses and some kind of smileys unification…but it is on the list, I have to finish my and a few another websites first.

Update 12.5.2006: Well, it works until you click any link inside the chat/message window, then it segfaults. It is known bug and the solution is to use latest GTK+ 2.6.10-rc1 libs from gladewin.sf.net. The bad side of this is that GIMP cannot run with these libs so you have to install GTK 2.6.10 from gimp-win.sf.net to enable it. This makes a mixture of all gtk libs and can cause unexpected hangs/segfaulst in both, Gajim and GIMP and maybe other GTK+ apps. The solution would probably be the same as in case of GAIM. Use GIMP’s GTK+ libs as default for Win32 builds.

I am used to use PSI to communicate through jabber service on my Windows box. On my GNU/Linux machine I like GNOME/Xfce more than KDE so I was looking for a jabber client with similar capabilities to PSI but using GTK libs(and not GAIM). And Nomed showed me Gajim jabber client. This client is comparable with PSI in the features area, and has some things more (like tabbed MUC chats ).

What I did not like on the Gajim were icons for icq buddies. After small detective work to find where these icons are stored and a bit of Inkscaping, I’ve created a set which I like and give here to the world. (Who knows, maybe Gajim developers will like it too and will include it in the next version ) Here it is:

Of course I do provide also the package with these icons and instructions how to install. To install simply decompress these icons into /usr/share/gajim/data/iconsets/transports/icq/ directory, restart Gajim and enjoy nice new icons

These icons are released under Creative Commons 2.0 - By GNU GPL v2 licence.

Update: 32×32 and 48×48 icons are ready too now.

Update 2: Relicensed to GNU GPL2.

I’ve finally made myself to redesign this blog and create all other webpages I’ve ever wanted to have here. The blog redesign is done(from 99%, there are some bugs yet), and on topic are other pages of my web. I am adding new pages as soon as I have them working, and I guess it will take me about a week to finish all the stuff. So if something is not working in the way you expect, I am sorry, be patient please

p.s. I know, the new look and feel is a bit infantile, but I like it