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Planet Ubuntu-it gets new theme

Yesterday I had a couple of hours to work on the planet.ubuntu-it.org theme, falling style in line with the website.

Code is available in LP:

bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-it-www/planet-ubuntu-it/stili/

Suggestions are welcome :)

HYM – Help you to merge

The idea is provide new (incoming) developers with a grafic tool that should be helpful during the merge operation.

I called it HYM (but suggestions are welcome!) and got a first approach using balsamiq. I would like to proceed following these steps:

  1. Show mockup and get feedbacks (in particular I would know if there were actions to remove/add/change at gui that developers usally do during merge)
  2. Apply feedbacks and create project in LP (with the maintainers group, all architects are welcome)
  3. Start modelling application using UML (specify, construct and document the artifacts)
  4. Call for feedbacks again about structure and choose which technologies will be used to deploy/develop application.
  5. Start development.

I don’t know if a tool like this one could be helpful to improve the development of Ubuntu. Considering I would like to know your thoughts about, I’m going to show you the mockup (step 1). Click on the image below (direct link) and please leave a feedback/suggestion:

Note that image could change in the next days.

Ciao!

Ubuntu is us all together

In the last weeks (as already posted in Ubuntu-it gets new website article) we redesigned ubuntu-it website in order to fall template into line with the new brand of Ubuntu.

While we were working on homepage, we asked ourself how to realize the concept of community and how mix it to the invitation to join us, all in a single image. The result was a “ubuntu” writing, collected with heads of planet.u.c and planet.u-it.org. The following image is in high resolution format (6000×1500) so you could print it (if you want) and show it during a party/meeting/or_similiar to convey the idea that ubuntu is made by me, by you, by your friends and your family, by us all together.

Ciao!

Ubuntu-it gets new website

After six months work (that really means work-after-real-work-to-be-more-precise-free-time) ubuntu-it gets a new look and a new website engine!

The theme is based on drupal-light-theme and if you like it we’ll be happy to clean (refactoring code) and share on LP for your LoCo websites.

More info?… ask us! :)

Perugia – DUCC-IT: Ubuntu-it and Debian-it community conference

Just a few words to greet you from Perugia (Italy).

We are here discussing translation, testing, packing, bug trianging and collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian with Stefano Zacchiroli (zack – DPL), Andrea Gasparini (gaspa – MOTU), Andrea Colangelo (warp10 – MOTU), Milo Casagrande (milo), Paolo Sammicheli (xdatap1), Flavia Weisghizzi (deindre), Silvia Bindelli (dolasilla), Luca Bruno (kaeso – DD), Andrea Mennucci (amennucc1 – DD) and many more…

Let’s HACK!

Ubuntu 10.04: Coming Soon [VIDEO]

With the Paolo Sammicheli help (that cared about the audio and the communication side) we made a “coming soon” video for Ubuntu 10.04 in order to improve and help the work of any Ubuntu LoCo Team.

I hope you like it :) .

Realized with:

Idea in brainstorm

After many suggestions coming out from the comments in «It would be nice if in Nautilus» post, I posed a new idea in ubuntu brainstorm.

You can find it here:


Please vote and comment the idea if you want see it in the next ubuntu releases.

It would be nice if in Nautilus …

… when you select some Audio/Video files:
nautilus

the information about the file in the Properties window:
file-properties

was also included in the sidebar:
nautilus-info

A simple theme for Gwibber…

This is a simple theme for Gwibber designed to match the Dust GTK+ theme and based on gilouche.

Preview:
gwibber-dust

You can download the code using bazaar:

bzr branch lp:~l3on/gwibber/dust-theme

To install, put it into this directory:

~/.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes/

and pick the new theme from Gwibber’s preferences.

License: GPL

Suggestions are welcome. :)

EDIT:
13-07-09: updated image according to new bzr revision. [Added border at content]

A simple plugin for Sonata…

This simple plugin uses pynotify to notify on song changes in sonata.

This is when you don’t have the album cover:

no-album-cover

This one shows a preview of plugin when option “Album art” is checked (and mp3 file has some decent id3-tags):

notify-with-album-prew

Download:
You can download it using bzr:

bzr branch lp:~l3on/sonata/sonata-plugins

Then copy notify.py into the plugins directory of sonata.

Required:
* Sonata git
* python-notify package

Suggestion:
For a better result, uncheck: Sonata → Preferences → Extra → Popup notification on song changes

Regards.