Category Archives: Gnome

Gnome terminal 2.26 annoyingly protects running child processes?

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Trick

Has anyone else been as annoyed as I am about this dialog?  Every time I close a terminal which has a running child process, rather than the terminal closing and the child process(es) getting killed, gnome-terminal tries to protect: I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Gnome, Uncategorized, User Interface Design | 2 Comments

Evolution Crash Detection

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Trick

I’ve recently made the jump to the latest ‘n greatest desktop, GNOME 2.22. Altogether I’m quite happy with the software. Not so happy with all the Gentoo bugs. But that’s another story. One of my favorite bugs is the crashes … Continue reading →

Posted in Gnome, Software, Uncategorized, Usability | 1 Comment

GUADEC followup

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Trick

Wowzers, what a great time! Was intending to write about each day individually, but that’s certainly out of the question now. GUADEC was a great experience and I’m hooked on the community! A big thanks to everyone who helped put … Continue reading →

Posted in Banshee, Free and Open Source, GNU/Linux, GUADEC 2007, Gnome, MTP, Nifty, Travel, Uncategorized, libgphoto2-sharp | 1 Comment

GUADEC Core Day 1

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Trick

Wowzers, what a day! Jono’s talk was excellent. Video taped the morning sessions in Recital; the F-Spot presentation was great. Larry is working on some sweet ass stuff. Sync’ing our photos online — integration with web services — I think … Continue reading →

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GUADEC Warmup Day 2

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Trick

So I arrived in London around 6 AM; everything went quickly.  Plane ride was fun, albeit quite cozy. Took the paddington express train, which is super slick, jumped on the underground to Euston, and wandered around for a while until … Continue reading →

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