Monthly Archives: March 2005

The Shape of Things

Pymusique, the latest cool hack from the infamous Jon Johansen. Naughty or nice? I don’t know. But its foundations are seriously nice:

Python
Twisted
GStreamer
GNOME
Ubuntu packages provided on the website

It’s a winning combination, and it’s popping up all over the place. It is fun to watch the shape of things to come forming before your eyes.

Friday, 4 March 2005

Ooh, just noticed that the GNOME splash screen contest has closed, and a winner announced. Rad!

Update: … and Nat has the image I was looking for. Compare and contrast, just like in art class. Foolishly, I went looking for the DVD instead of using the digital dialtone. Somehow I thought it would be […]

Friday, 4 March 2005

Had an idea for a little hack that would make the ubuntu-calendar backgrounds ten times cooler than they already are! If, say, gnome-settings-daemon monitored the currently selected image for changes, and forced an update, you’d get cool new background love whenever your ubuntu-calendar-* package is updated. Much nicer than doing it manually, or waiting until […]

Friday, 4 March 2005