the disgruntled Linux surgeon

I noticed this improvement in nautilus, which I assume is a desired side effect of moving to GVFS, glib's replacement to gnome-vfs.

Copy operations now show total and done amount, multiple copy operations share the same dialog with separate progress bars. You can close the dialog to let the copy operations continue in the background, and summon the dialog again from a system tray icon.

I hope they are planning to add a pause/resume button, which would really rock!

Here is the final product of myh mergedfb. I can watch a movie on the external monitor while working on the laptop lcd. I can switch dynamically between widescreen and clone. I wrapped the following in a script and added a launcher to do it from the panel (the little monitor button in the panel ).

{{{
#!/bin/bash

if [ `xrandr | grep "*" | gawk '{ print $1 }'` = "1024x768" ] ; then

xrandr -s 1

I am quite happy with the functionality of my desktop like this. The colors and icons are not bad but they could be improved.

This is the current status of my desktop. Gnome-2.18 is an incremental improvement over previous versions, but nothing obvious.

I am curious though as how the png icons from the top panel overlap the other panel! It looks really cool, but not sure this is intended ?

Gimmie Bar, cool document management .. err soon.

Gimmie Bar, centralized presence and contacts..

Gimmie bar the menu rethought..

The new control center has categories, GREAT. Now to fix the categories for the capplets so they make sense.

Glade 3.1.x has an MDI interface now. This is a great enhancements specially to people coming from a M$ vb studio background.

An unofficial patch to GTK+ just released on gnomefiles.org along with it's panel applet, allow all programs to have their menu bar in a common place. Here the gaim conversation window has it's menu in the top panel. When I switch to epiphany's window it will put it's menu there too.

It's a cool hack and will appeal specially to MAC look alike freaks. However I want to see if it actually helps