notes from the mousepad

Congratulations to Jannis Pohlmann on the release of Thunar 1.1.0!  For those who don’t know, Thunar is the Xfce file manager, and this release marks a major milestone for Thunar and for the Xfce project.  Why is this release so noteworthy?  With this new version of Thunar, users will be able to access networked file [...]

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The Xubuntu team will be holding a meeting this Sunday, January 10th, at 20:00 UTC, and all are welcome to attend.
The primary focus of this meeting will be on team governance, as Cody Somerville is transitioning out of his role as primary project leader.  With that, we’ll be discussing changes to the Xubuntu Strategy Document.  [...]

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The next Ubuntu Developer Summit will be starting up tomorrow, and although not everyone can attend the event, there are a number of ways to participate remotely.
Among other things, I like to follow the ‘dents (from Identi.ca) and tweets (from Twitter) from the event.  Typically, people will use Identi.ca and Twitter to share snippets about [...]

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The VRMS program does a nice job of listing the non-free components on your system.  Let’s see what my VRMS report shows:
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jwc@tereska:~$ vrms
Non-free packages installed on tereska
linux-generic             Complete Generic Linux kernel
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script
linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
Contrib packages installed on tereska
flashplugin-installer     Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
flashplugin-nonfree       Adobe Flash Player [...]

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I came across Xerox’s International Color Guide while reading through the items on my feed reader this evening. Because Ubuntu is developed for an international audience, I thought this color guide might be interesting to some of the artwork and desktop-UI folks in the Ubuntu community.
The guide also includes a link to a “color quiz” [...]

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I recently posted a couple of ‘dents onto identi.ca regarding UbuntuOne, but wanted to follow-up with some more complete thoughts.
In thinking about UbuntuOne, there are a number of factors involved; it involves the need to build a sustainable business, trademark issues, and the level of one’s own comfort with using non-free software. To me, there [...]

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Hello Chicagoland folks.  : -)   The Ubuntu-Chicago Local Community Team has organized our Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope, release party, and we want you to be there. : -)
You can check out the details on our team wiki page, but here is the short of it:
Date: Saturday, April 25th
Time: 2:00pm to 6:00pm (people may [...]

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Good news on the wiki front.  : -)  As of this morning, apt-urls are enabled on the Ubuntu Wiki.  What does this mean?  In simple terms, this feature provides a simple, wiki-based interface for apt, the base of our software management system.  It means that we can now insert clickable links on the wiki that [...]

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I’m attending the WritersUA conference in Seattle this week, and yesterday was day one of the conference.  The conference started with Scott McCloud talking about how he created his Google Chrome comic, and I attended other talks on ISO documentation standards, as well as architecting your content so it can be reused.
McCloud’s talk was interesting [...]

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As I’m sure is the case with other Ubuntu-related development groups, the Xubuntu team has been quite active as of late.  We spent some time this weekend testing out configurations of system settings now that we have migrated to Xfce 4.6 for the 9.04 release, and have completed the transition to the new artwork for [...]

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