“I have a hard time caring about “KDE vs. Gnome”. It’s like watching your two best friends fighting. I’m not going to take part.” – Chris DiBona

While reading up on google co-op, I was pleasently surprised to see that the screenshots used to show previews of the ‘co-op’ed search results are of firefox running on Linux. From the Gnome theme, it looks like it’s a redhat-based distro.

Let the google linux rumor mill start again!

I’m still working on understanding co-op, though.

Late last night (or early this morning), I submitted my first ever patch. Hopefully this is the start of a long line of contributions. It fixes a problem in Monodevelop with the Code Template drop-down in the options panel. It’s bug #78082.

Every day I work on my soon-to-be-announced project I get more confident in C#. For anybody learning C# on linux with Mono, I recommend you look at Banshee for an example to help you along. The ActionManager class is very helpfull. Here is another good resource for tutorials. And lastly, You can go to the Mono Project sight for a good intro to the Gtk Treeview widget. Treeview is a beast at first but is really nice once you get the hang of it.

For those who hate ubuntu spatial and never want to see it again, you can issue this command WITHOUT any users logged into Gnome (GConf can’t be running.).

sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/no_ubuntu_spatial true

The same is true for other settings as well. Also, if you want to make a setting mandetory then just change “defaults” to “mandatory” and users will be restricted to that setting. For other settings you’d probably need to change the type after “–type” and the value at the end.

After a little searching, I found out how to import Evolution 1.4 settings and data in /home/$USER/evolution into 2.2.

All you have to do is go into the Gconf Configuration Tool and change the keys “version” and “last_version” under /app/evolution to 1.4.6. When you start Evolution it will find the folder ~/evolution and ask you if you’d like to import the old data and settings. I believe it over-writes the current settings.

Today I’m updating one of the computers at Sprachenatelier Berlin e.V. from Suse 9.2 using KDE to Ubuntu Hoary 5.04. Hopefully I won’t run into any problems I’ve tested everything i can think of. I’m sure I’ve forgotten something, though.