Just discovered that the GNOME weather applet has been integrated into the clock in the GNOME Panel. The scary thing is that I don’t know how it knows where I am to display the right temperature.
Uh, GNOME, isn’t that a bit redundant?
13 February 2008I just went into the Properties for one of the partitions on my hard drive. I noticed that GNOME was doing a fair amount of calculating when it was absolutely unnecessary.
It appears to be traversing through the entire volume to find out the amount of space used, but that’s entirely unnecessary because the exact info needed is displayed about 200 pixels lower! (See the yellow box in the video.)
Conduit revisited
30 January 2008At linux.conf.au 2008, in the GNOME.conf.au miniconf yesterday, John Stowers again presented Conduit, a synchronisation program for GNOME.
Since last year, Conduit has greatly improved — the user interface is much clearer, supports more web services, and even networking synchronisation via Avahi.
Conduit is now at version 0.3.6; last year, 0.2 was “stable”, and 0.3 was in the works.
GDM SSH client in Hardy
21 January 2008I just discovered that Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3, which I’ve been running for the last two or so weeks, has an SSH client built-in to GDM which you can use to remotely access your GNOME desktop right from the GDM screen.
It’s located in the Options → Select Session menu in GDM. After selecting “Secure Remote Connection” in the dialog, enter your username and password, followed by the remote host, and then enter your password again. Then, your remote desktop will appear.
It still needs some polish — you first have to enter your username and password for the local host, then for the remote one. I don’t think you should have to authenticate yourself locally before being able to use the SSH client — I mean, XDMCP doesn’t require you to do that.
Conduit
16 January 2007One particular piece of software demoed yesterday was called ‘Conduit‘. It’s an interesting synchronisation program for GNOME, and allows you to synchronise a ‘Source’ into a ‘Sink’.
I’m running version 0.2 on this Ubuntu-based laptop (couldn’t figure out getting it to run from SVN), but the version demoed at the miniconf was slightly short of 0.3 and had a few more interesting ways to sink.
Even though I was only running version 0.2, I managed to get an interesting sync going, including downloading all my starred Gmail emails into a folder, and importing all my Tomboy notes into Gmail. The new version apparently will feature iPod support as well.
I think it’s a very exciting piece of software that will become another killer app for GNOME.
