I am still playing with Ubuntu and loving it more every time I switch the machine on.
I have installed a couple of extra applications, one called Liferea (LInux FEed REAder) for reading the RSS feeds. I took the opml (XML) file from Google Reader and imported into the application with no trouble whatsoever. Generally it works beautifully, but I would really like to see the name of the blog on the unread posts page so I know which blog/site I am reading. Currently it only takes the title of the post until you click on it which is a little confusing.
The second application is one courtesy of Tombuntu (who was introduced by Donncha in my previous post!). It’s called Cairo-Dock and gives functionality similar to OS X’s dock/launcher that sits at the bottom of the screen. It’s a great little app and makes my desktop even more OS X like. More information on the application is available in Tombuntu’s post How-to Install Cairo-dock. The only other thing I wanted to do was to get the application to start automatically on log-in. Another quick Google search turned up this post from Adventures In Switching [To Linux] which told me exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!
GIMP Image editing, whilst a steep learning curve (I’m used to Photoshop CS2) is as good as PS, with all the same functionality. If I’d thought of it I would have resized the two images above (taken with “take screenshot”) before uploading them.
What I am struggling to find right now is a RAW converter for Linux. I know there are a few out there and some of the reviews I have read say some of the are really good. Others however are suggesting to use Google’s Picasa application and from what I can see I would have to use WINE to run it as it’s Windows only. Any suggestions for a RAW converter? Maybe a plugin for GIMP?
Something I have just noticed while typing this is that Firefox (V.3 Beta 5) has gone grey whilst editing the post:
I think it happened when I tried to use Wordpress’s new media uploader for the images. Have to look into that one I think. I don’t know if it’s WP, FF or Ubuntu that has caused this to happen.
#1 by Forrest on May 13th, 2008
I saw some traffic to my site from yours and wanted to check it out. Nice. Thanks for linking back.
For your #5 here, the graying out is caused by the desktop effects (Compiz) whenever a window is non responsive/working. I think you can change the delay with gconf-editor under /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/ping_delay. Default is 5 seconds.