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GIMP 2.4 is out in the wild!

cornelius — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:57:00 +0000

Shout this to the world, developers of the GIMP image manipulation program released brand new version numbered as 2.4! Congratulations to all developers and contributors to this new and still shining version. Hooray!

p.s. I know, it has been silent here for a long time but it will change next month, I promise!

Einstein is blind…

cornelius — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:15:03 +0000

This is probably my last blogpost written on Einstein, my IBM ThinkPad R51 laptop, for at least a month. He has been serving me well for the last two years. Today, two days before the expiration of two years long warranty period, the display just died and does not turn on any more, Nothing helps, not even plugging it to the power to lighten it up, the underlight of the display is probably gone.

Fortunatelly the external display output is still working so I’m doing backups of all of my data (thanks to the lcd display of my sister’s pc) and tomorrow I will take Einstein to the local IBM distributor for repairs.

Why now!?! Its damn bad timing and Tycho(main pc) is 150km far from here!

Současné problémy GIMP.cz (Current problems of GIMP.cz website)

cornelius — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:17:06 +0000

This article is written in czech because it is meant for czech visitors of gimp.cz website.

V posledních 14 dnech se gimp.cz potýká s jistými problémy s dostupností. V serverovně, kde je umístěn i server na kterém běží gimp.cz, došlo k změnám a v jejich důsledku jsou některé z webů na ovlivněných serverech nepřístupné. Včetně gimp.cz. Snažíme se tento problém řešit, ale prozatím se to nepodařilo ani přes opakování požadavku na odstranění problému. Doufáme, že se podaří problém odstranit co nejdříve a že nám naši pravidelní čtenáři zachovají přízeň.

Update 11.6.2007: Tak už zase fungujeme! Podle posledních zpráv to stěhování odnesl i mysql server což prodloužilo dobu kdy byl server offline. Happy GIMPing!

Update 26.6.2007: Někdo hacknul web, na opravách se pracuje, ještě nevíme o co všechno jsme přišli, ale snad to bude “jen” změněná databáze.

Nautilus Actions - Rendering SVGs on right click

cornelius — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:41:22 +0000

I used the same set of scripts to render a bunch of SVGs since I am in the icon bussiness…until now! Those original scripts were easily customisable but had to be copied to the active directory every time I wanted to render some icons. On Saturday, Ulisse introduced a really nice Nautilus action for rendering SVG files and now I have the rendering action right below my finger!

All you need is librsvg-binary and zenity. Then just select any SVG and choose “rsvg2png” (”Render SVG” in my case). I will still keep my scripts, they are handy if I want to render recursively everything in subdirectories, but this new action is really usefull. Go and check it out yourself!

Gtk-stock icons’ marathon is over…

cornelius — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:17:53 +0000

…and it was hell of a good run! Great group of people got together today on #tango and we were drawing like there was no tomorrow. There were 199 icons created in one day.

~~I will not rather name anyone of you who made this possible because I would forget someone for sure~~
Update: Who was there drawing: Jakub Steiner, Steven Garrity, Tuomas Kuosmanen, Andreas Nilsson, Lapo Calamandrei, Josef Vybiral(me myself), Hylke Bons, Charavel Olivier, Kalle Persson and David Prieto

It was wonderfull to feel that artistic “mojo” floating around! If anyone wants to know who everyone ran this icon marathon, check the Tango Fridays page and Graphicsplanet to see what great stuff has been done. Yeeeehaaaa!

Preview of gtk stock icons
(original composition by Jakub “jimmac” Steiner)

Links:

Tango Friday: gtk+ icons’ marathon

cornelius — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:05:43 +0000

It is hell of a challenge to re-create all 193 stock icons for GTK+ toolkit, but I am joining the quest to do it!

And you, yes You my dear reader, if you have artistic skills and had ever have a thought about joining Tango or GNOME projects, this would be a good time to join and help with this icon drawing marathon. (So we can make it all in one day and go home to our beloved wifes and girlfriends right at the friday evening )

Finally the ultimate theme for your K750i!

cornelius — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:20:44 +0000

I’ve been searching for a suitable theme for my SE K750i since I’ve bought it and now, I’ve done it myself. I dedicate this theme to all Tango desktop project members with this(or similar) wonderfull phones from Sony Ericsson By clicking the thumbnail, you’ll see the set of all screens. It is first release of this theme and I will improve it in the future, so stay tuned!

Download now!

Beautifying Gnome control center (Tango friday 16.2.2007)

cornelius — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:24:09 +0000

Evolution of Network proxy icon

For this tango friday, I took a quest on finding better metaphor for network proxy applet in gnome control center. This is the story how the metaphor evolved and where it ended

If you look over the Internet, the “internet proxy” or “network proxy” in images and schemes usually use a wall or a general computer/server metaphor. It is good when the proxy has also a firewall inside or when it is in the scheme and has a description.

Not a good metaphor The next was a series of “Just another globe”(TM) styled icons, one inspired by Apple’s icon or network configuration and the last one inspired by the icon used in Tango icon theme for the same purpose.

Then some brain damage happened to me and this icon appeared After Jimmac’s suggestion, the wire on the right side was added.

Based on these, the final icon was created Added some colours, line enhancements etc… et voila! Icon created, packed (renamed as gnome-network-preferences as Dobey suggested and sent to bugzilla)

Update 17. 02. 2007: I’ve just beaten another c-c bug, the icon for sound applet

Sound preferences icon

Now the icon waits for GO/NO-GO result

Graphire arrived!

cornelius — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:32:22 +0000

Today, my new Wacom Graphire 4 Classic XL arrived at 10 a.m. This silver coloured, A5 sized drawing tablet took a while to get it working under Ubuntu Dapper Drake but with a few tutorials and help from Luciash, everything works without much problems.

First thing I’ve ever drawn with graphics tablet (Created in Inkscape)

Inkscape 0.45 is in the wild!

cornelius — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:42:45 +0000

A few days after official announcement but rather later than never! The new release of Inkscape with number 0.45 is out and it has really nice new features. There are already packages for all major systems created so grab yours and test it Good job is done by developers and packagers!

I would like to thank to all translators for their work on this release, you did a hell good job! (and I screwed only a few of translations you sent (my deepest apologies Alexandre) Keep up good work for the 0.45.1 and next releases too!

p.s. Yes, I am sick these days, high temperatures and back pain knocked me to the bed and I start to feel like an instantaneous tea cooler.