Entries in Category: Gnome

As it turns out, I really am Seemant Gulleen. Or more accurately Seemant G/Kulleen with a silent "G/". So, John fixed the error I was having. Turns out it's an off by one error in gtkhtml (poor evo just crashed because of it). Anyway, his patch fixes it and I am back in Gnome, baby! I really missed being in Gnome. KDE was fairly quirky for me. For starters, the fonts in firefox were all big ...

Yesterday I wrote about switching my work laptop to KDE. After playing around a bit with the Kontrol Center, I've got it mostly looking and feeling like how I want. I'll blog about that in the next article. For this article, I want to just reminisce about Evolution and Gnome and how I miss them. A picture is worth at least a couple of words, so have a look: ![Integration of Evo with Gnome](http://kulleen.org/media/blog/Evo-Gnome-closeup.png "What I miss about Evo and ...

I'm actually Kulleen. And so, it really only makes sense that I'm pre-ordained to use KDE, right? Well, I never subscribed to that belief. In fact, I've been an avid Gnome user since forever. I love everything about gnome: GTK+, Evo, nautilus, the works. And it only seemed to get better and better. Well, except for Evolution which only seemed to regress. Things finally came to a head on Monday, and I'll tell you how. ...

There are none. Evolution used to have one. And it was my favourite. Feature. Ever. The gdesklets (no link, see rest of sentence) just suck. They're unstable and they keep crashing. And there's no standalone any more that I know of. I think surfraw used to be it, but it's apparently dead upstream. So now, I'm thinking of going back to Claws because there is an rss reader plugin available for it. In order to do the migration, ...