The cat litter box in the hall being the first thing you see when you enter our apartment always bugged us, so we decided to do something about it. We bought a cabinet at a flee market for 20 SEK (about $3 USD). Took it home, made sure the litter box fitted inside it and measured out a hole in the side. Then we used one of these guys to prepare a small hole to fit the jigsaw, sawed up the big hole and used an rasp and sandpaper to finish it up.
The cats seems to think it’s ok.
Went to FOSDEM during weekend. As always at conferences, I got a lot of requests for artwork for various things. As I tend to have somewhat of a goldfish memory, can everyone who asked me for stuff please add it to the GNOME Artwork requests page?
Thanks and apologies.
- Your humble pixel pusher
My friend Péter recently started blogging about his adventures with producing music using free software.
I wish him the best of luck!
Rob Straudinger recently added border-image support to his css markup-powered GTK+ Engine. This allows you to create really fancy buttons and other cool stuff in a rather simple way. Check out John Resig’s post about border-image implementation in Firefox for some cool demos of what you can do with this.
Back at GUADEC in Birmingham, when Garrett proposed using css-markup for widget themes, I thought it sounded a bit too cracky to be doable. Rob’s recent work, however, looks really sweet and since every designer and his mother out there knows css, this is a great way to lower the barriers of theme creation.
Rob is in great need of designers to test these things out in the wild though, so if you’re a designer with css knowledge who always wanted to create widget themes, don’t hesitate to check it out from svn and give it a shot.
svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk-css-engine/trunk gtk-css-engine
You can find out more about the upcoming 0.3 release in the GNOME Theming blog.
Just a quick reminder that we’re going to hold our monthly GNOME Art Meeting tomorrow (Nov 10th) at 19:00 UTC in #gnome-art on irc.gnome.org
On the agenda so far is:
See the wiki page for more info.
Hope to see you there!
Nine out of ten times I tell people I’m a Icon Designer, they tend look at me like I’ve just told them I’m a Shrubbery Maker. Sometimes I just lie instead.
Christian, I did ask my girlfriend about it. I’m sorry to tell you that she don’t get the whole Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte-thing at all because she honestly finds it way too abstract.
This is true for a whole bunch of other people I know, that needs their computers to get stuff done, as well.
So yeah, we fail. Hard.
GNOME 2.24 is soon upon us. In order to celebrate the release Kalle Persson, Clemens Buss, Henrik Sandklef and myself is going to meet at Flygarns Haga on Friday the 26th around 19.00 or so and have some beers.
You can add yourself to the wiki page if you’re coming.
It seems that some of the London hackers have similar ideas.
In other news
Oh, and here is a random photo from our hackfest:
So anyway, Henrik is also one of the organizers behind the upcoming FSCons conference in Gothenburg during 24-26th of October, make sure to come there. I’m doing a talk on Tango and there is going to be a talk on GTK+ from Carlos. Last year was quite fun and I expect nothing less this year.
As the observant Daniel already noted, I had a small hackfest at my apartment in Gothenburg this weekend.
The attendees was Kalle Persson, Clemens Buss and myself + this odd fellow that Clemens brought along.
We had quite a nice time. Discussed some ideas around GNOME, Clemens did some Emblem hacking and Kalle and I designed a website and drew some icons. We’re definitely doing this again soon and I hope more people will be interested in joining.
“We don’t want the user to think about the theme too much, we want the browser to perceptually fade away so that the user can focus on what it is they are actually doing. In a sense it is a little ironic, the harder we work to make Firefox fade away the less likely it is that the user will notice the amount of effort that has gone into crafting the interface. However, the very best user interfaces go completely unnoticed, that is what makes them good.”
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