Shutter seems to do quite everything. Full screen screenshots, single window's, even part of the windows. Image editing, automatic upload, basic effects. Quite cool.
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Simple and Useful Ways to Optimize GNOME for Netbook Displays
GNOME is highly customizable and can be tweaked to suit every user’s needs. That’s why I think its versatility makes it a perfect desktop environment for Linux netbooks. Since netbook displays are small, desktop space should not be wasted. I have here some tips that I hope you will find useful on how you can optimize GNOME for your netbook’s diminutive desktop area.
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Hide Gnome panel to get the most
On every computer I’m using I like to get the maximum screen estate I can. I also like to enjoy my wall papers without having the two default Gnome panels in the way. Here are some tweaks I do on every computer I use (that’s true especially for notebooks and netbooks like the eeePc ).
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Ear Candy makes your Gnome Desktop a little bit smarter
Some time ago in the #rapache-devel channel Jason, which is the author of many of the nice features found in Rapache, came up with the idea of leveraging PulseAudio and do something with it. Well.. that was not a bad idea. I mean, until today PulseAudio brought lots of brokeness to Ubuntu (not to say Fedora) users but .. can you say to have enjoyed any benefit from it ? Even one, I mean.
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Jeff Waugh Resigned from GNOME Foundation Board
The GNOME Foundation Board regretfully announces that Jeff Waugh will be stepping down from the board in order to focus on work and other projects. The board thanks Jeff for his years of service to the board and the community, and wishes him success in his future work both inside and outside of GNOME. Jeff leaves big shoes to fill.
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Interview with Torvalds, which moved to GNOME from KDE
Interview with Linus Torvalds, during linux.conf.au-conference visit. Questions related to Linux development, ZFS, Git and also window managers. Before, Linus openly did not like GNOME, but he was disappointed with KDE 4.0 and moved to GNOME.
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What Miguel & Novell Do to GNOME
An illustration of the evolution of GNOME under Novell's watch .
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The Evolution Of An GNU Project
...community driven projects can and, in many cases, do outpace closed sourced development cycles. Here's why...
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Evolution vs Kontact - Part 2 - Kontact & Conclusion
Welcome back to Part 2 of this series - pitting GNOME's Evolution Personal Information Manager (PIM) suite against KDE's Kontact.
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Is Epiphany ready to replace Firefox?
I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been hunting some things down for Epiphany, the GNOME web browser, and I was hoping that Epiphany 2.24.1, the current version in Ubuntu Intrepid, was good enough to let me kick out Firefox when version 3.1 comes out.
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25 Best Linux Desktop Customization Screenshots
One of the advantage of using Linux is that you can choose the graphic environment you want to use and you can customize it as you want. This article offers you a list of the 25 best screenshots, found on the Internet, and which will give you inspiration to customize your desktop.
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The Gnome Screen Real Estate Problem & what can be done now
Gnome does a pretty bad job at utilizing screen real estate. In fact, all Desktop environments in Linux.. in all distro ’s uses up far too much screen real estate for just about everything. But until Gnome, Ubuntu, Fedora or anyone else can fix the problem, what can be done about it now? Well, a lot actually.
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Nathive under GPL, 0.811, and collaboration call.
Hello, I'm pleased to let you know that Nathive image editor project has released new alpha version (0.811) with changes detailed below and, most important, source code under the terms of GNU GPLv3 Free Software License. Want to be part of the community? ...
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GNOME's Empathy IM client gets file transfer support
Empathy is an open source instant messaging client for the GNOME desktop environment. It made its big debut in GNOME 2.24, which was released in September.
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Why I moved to Gnome
I’ve been a KDE user basically since I started using Linux. The Qt toolkit’s default theme was much more visually appealing than GTK+, KDE’s purple and silver (remember back when there was no blue to speak of in Kubuntu?) was a nicer mix than Ubuntu’s orange and brown, and the KDE apps were pretty awesome. Despite this, I’m now sitting here in front of a clean Ubuntu Intrepid install.
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