This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

And this is Breezy Badger, written , and concerning Linux

I've now upgraded to the new Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and so far it all seems fine. Things I have thus far noticed:
  • The new "Add Applications" thing is, um. Not sure about that, because I don't know which category a new application should be in. I installed Best (the Beagle search tool) but had to search for it to find it, and I still don't know how to put a Best applet in my top panel. (There's no applet in the "Add to panel" thing).
  • Best is cool, I think, although I'm not using it really yet. Kudos to the guys who built it.
  • Totem plays DVDs! Woo! The bug that I was suffering from in Hoary has obviously been fixed.
  • Most importantly...watch the "Ubuntu FAQ Guide / Networking" header in the following: A movie of the Gnome 2.12 Yelp help-viewer window being shrunk, showing the 'breadcrumb trail' dynamically adapting itself to the width of the window See how the header dynamically adapts itself to the width of the window? I wrote that. My code is in Ubuntu! Woo! I mean, it's a tiny amount of code, but I don't care. :-)

Comments

dusoft

That is very nice example of good written piece of UI. Very smart.

Jon Hicks

Breezy Badger? You Linux types get all the good names! Let me know when Flatulent Fox comes out.

sil

Jon: the next release is called "Dapper Drake". :)

Jordan

Aside from all my programs (and skins /for/ programs) being on Windows, the main thing that's keeping me from Ubuntu is the damned device manager. It detects my wifi card but won't let me enable it. Detects my second monitor but won't let me enable it.

I had the devil's own time figuring out how to gain control over what packages were installed; for an install that supposedly takes 1.8gigs, it managed to run out of space on a 2gig drive.

If it weren't for these problems, I'd drop windows in an instant and go straight to Ubuntu.

* note that all my complaints stem from the 5.1 preview; I don't know if they're solved in the final.

mrben

You wrote code in Ubuntu..... my hero ;)

Richard Rutter

How about repurposing that as a piece of JavaScript for use on liquid layout websites? Maybe not trivial - I don't know - but for a man of your talents... :-)

sil

Rich: hm. It'd be doable, I think, but the reason I can make it work on the Ubuntu help viewer is that the header is always the same format:

[link] / [link] / [link] / [link] ... etc

I'll have a think about it :)

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