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[TIP] WordPress upgrade

Friday, March 31st, 2006

I’ve just upgraded WordPress, I’ve done in mainly because I’ve a visualization problem, probably caused in some way from the post with images, I don’t know why.

I can say only one thing : The upgrade of WordPress is really easy (make the readme.html into the package of WordPress happy: read him!)…

  • do a back-up (of course Murphy is always ready) of the DB tables, I’ve used phpMyAdmin, I’ve done also a back-up of the wp-content directory for sure, and leave the wp-config.php where is (yes I’ve forgotten to do this :P …) and if you are paranoid back-up also this, back-up everything and sleep relaxed :)
  • Delete the files in the WordPress directory on the server, you can leave the wp-content directory and of course the wp-config.php :P
  • Upload on the server the new files taken from the package
  • go to the page /wp-admin/upgrade.php, smile: WordPress is upgraded.

OK, simple like say “GNOME rocks” ;)

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Firefox, bye bye! Welcome epiphany…

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

OK, firefox IS great.

The first alpha of firefox 2 is out, codename: “Bon Echo“, I’ve just installed it on windows (yes a a windows box is a wonderful “guinea pig”), for take it a look…

OK, this is just an alpha and not the final release so it can change…but…

I don’t know nothing, I know just one thing: I hate this “new” tabbed browsing behavior, it’s the same of epiphany, and this behavior is the only thing keeped me away from epiphany…so…

  • I’m a GNOME lover
  • Epiphany is lighter, has the GNOME style (read it is cool), has great features (gecko rendering engine, GNOME integration, a wonderful bookmarks system, deskbar integration, great extensions like “AD Blocker” or “News Feed Subscriptor” etc…, and so on…)
  • The only thing makes me use firefox is going away…
  • Then : I will use epiphany ;)

OK, I give you some screenshot (grabbed here and here, thanks)

Epiphany has the same GNOME Look&Feel
GNOME L&F
Revolutionary Bookmarks System
“AD Blocker” Extension
“News Feed Subscription” Extension
Deskbar integration
NB: This is NOT an article “firefox is shit, epiphany is gold”, I love firefox too.
PS: This seems to be a GNOME marketing post :D

Posted in GNU/Linux, Software, GNOME, English | 5 Comments »

GNOME 2.14 beta1 Overlay

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

GNOME 2.14 beta1 (Also called 2.13.90) is out.

It is not yet into the official gentoo portage tree, but there is a bug opened, and you can find the ebuilds into this overlay.

I’m trying to install it, I know GNOME 2.14 is not yet stable and these ebuilds has some problems.

Some GNOME 2.14 component depends on GStreamer 0.10, this is masked, so you need to edit also the /etc/portage/packages.unmask file. GStreamer should be faster.
GNOME 2.14 now has also an applet to switch between users (a great thing), probably it is faster (thanks to the pango changes), and EOG is now, finally usable ;) . There are other changes but at the moment I can’t remember (I hope, like probably every GNOME lover, in the usual GNOME pre-release tour of davyd).

I hope I don’t break too my gentoo!

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GNOME Mockups …

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Here you can find 56 mockups, but probably these are “just” screenshot of NLD 10 (Novell Linux Desktop).

Here what I think about some of these screenshots.

I like the idea of show graphically the volume level, actually the volume applet just show a simple tooltip with the volume percentage. I like this, but IMHO this is better because it has more ticks and is rounded, but maybe these are confusing because seems to be clickable…so probably this is the “best”, but it should show with different colors if the level is too high and so on, like in the others examples.

There are also two mockups of the volume applet that show how to change the volume level, this one is very simple, I like it. In this you can also change the single application volume level, this can be useful.

Also the menu was rearranged, but I don’t know what to think because this is too important.

I also like the panel, but I think potentially it’s the same of the current panel with different icons ;)

OK That’s all, I think this is a good point of starting, and there are some good ideas…

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Mac OS X, we are coming soon…

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Few days ago I’ve seen these beautiful GNOME mockups I’ve thinked this is really great and this is the right way…

A mockup is a picture that show how some idea should be implemented…so a mockup is just a project.

I’ve readed on Planet GNOME that Novell released XGL…I’ve seen also the videos, wow!!!! Transparencies, wobbly windows, minimize/maximize (pluggable) effects, virtual desktops on a cube faces, zoom, and all these things are fast!

I’ve also found this videos (1 2 3 4) … this is the presentation of NLD 10 (Novell Linux Desktop)…yeah, this is a REAL distribution…and in the second video you can see the new menu, yeah…this is the same of the mockup, so this is already implemented!!! And in these videos you can also see the integrated exposè-like feature…

Am I dreaming? Today is the 1st of april? This rock, and Novell rulez…

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