Archive for the 'gnome' Category

Message to Chris Blizzard

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

(or anyone else loving good ice cream, of course ;))

There’s this pretty awesome ice cream bar called “Tutti Frutti” not far from the guadec location. Lots of variety. Lots.
Heh, I need to rework my categories for this blog - I end up “categorizing” depending on what planet feed I want the post to go into.. […]

Guadec time

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

We arrived yesterday, after a slightly delayed flight (”technical reason”) from Helsinki. Arriving at Barcelona airport we took a taxi to the place. We successfully used maemo mapper to find our accommodation as the driver was not familiar with Vilanova i la Geltrú. “Ah, GPS.. perfecto!”
Today is the warmup time, meeting people and trying […]

Learning to deb

Monday, June 19th, 2006

So I’m sitting at the University of Helsinki CS department again, been a while

This time it’s a Debian packaging school organized by Lars Wirzenius - I figured this will be an useful skill to learn since I deal with themes, icons etc that also need to be packaged..

Mugshot and such

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

I think I see the point now. Took a while to get over that “WTF? Redhat? Web services? Social networking and ajax?” -thingy, but in a way this is not much different from what I have been thinking about a lot lately as well.
There’s a lot more software these days than what’s we used to […]

On optimizing software for speed..

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Okay, I dont even try to understand much of this subject, but one interesting observation I have done lately.
As I am going to give back the Novell laptop in a few days, I have been moving stuff into my old, black Powerbook. I installed Ubuntu on it. It has 380 megabytes of memory and the […]

Tango UI for web?

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

So I Inkscaped again a bit today.
This is a mockup of a new admin-interface (”Aegir 2“) for Midgard CMS.

The mockup uses Tango colours and icons, which is an interesting use for the cross-platform theme. The èxample shows a new access control list editor for an example folder - the user interface was very much influenced […]

Denim - the User interface prototyping tool

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Passed along by Henri of Midgard CMS fame: Denim seems very neat.
Basically it’s a java-based website protyping tool where you can use a wacom tablet or such, to sketch a basic content layout and it makes a semi-working prototype to play with the navigation.
Now, this is very very interesting also for non-web user interface design: […]

Looking back, and forth, and left, and right… my head spins.. :-)

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Michael, it sure was an interesting 5 years or so.. I bought a Coopers today for that
It was fun, sometimes sad, lots of work and very interesting time, to watch the Linux desktop learning to walk. Amazing ride without a doubt. Thanks. And I’m looking forward for what’s next. Need to think and […]

Accessibility tool for artists!

Friday, October 28th, 2005

I just found out a cool trick. Everyone knows Gnopernicus, the Gnome desktop accessibility do-it-all-tool that has the weirdest name ever. Anyway, it, among other things, contains a screen magnifier for visually impaired users.
By default it starts with the right half of the screen magnifying everything on the left, but you can actually configure […]

Flying back..

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Apparently the Boston area air traffic control radar has issues, so hopefully my flight will be on schedule.. Anyways, it was great to meet new and “old” people again in the summit, see you again soon!
Oh, and for those who are interested in the Tango project, there’s an IRC channel #tango on freenode.
Remember, Tango is […]