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Re: VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support, Leaves Devs “Screwed”

kenvandine — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:46:00 -0000

This does not effect the snap

Re: VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support, Leaves Devs “Screwed”

kenvandine — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 08:35:03 -0000

They wouldn't need to bundle a newer glibc, they can just rebase their snap on a newer core snap. Right now it's core20, easily updated to core22 and beyond which would be seamless to users. The VS Code snap is excellent, I use it daily.

Re: 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Install Ubuntu Touch 1.0

kenvandine — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:21:37 -0000

MTP works, you can easily just drag and drop music and videos. No need for a terminal :)

Facebook sharing from the gallery-app works as well, just need to add your facebook account.

Re: 10 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 12.10

kenvandine — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:07:42 -0000

There is an sync indicator for 12.10, which includes support for Ubuntu One. However it didn't make it into the 12.10 default install. You need to install the indicator-sync package.

It was intended to be default, but was to late to get enough testing.

Re: Gwibber 3.3.5 landed in Precise Pangolin with monochrome icons

kenvandine — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:38:28 -0000

They actually come from the faenza icon theme, which is what njpatel based his original gwibber designs on. It was pretty hard to find themed icons that fit the spirit of the various stream types in gwibber, so I found the ones that looked most appropriate for gwibber and bundled them. I personally think it is a huge improvement :)

Re: Gwibber Gets Revamped For Ubuntu 11.10: Faster, Lighter, Prettier

kenvandine — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:40:45 -0000

Right now you need to build it from source, packages will be updated very soon. 3.1 is the development series leading to 3.2. 3.1.2 will be the first development release including the re-write.

Re: Drag and Drop Imageshack uploader for Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher

kenvandine — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:16:51 -0000

I already have a gwibber branch that handles dropping the image on the Gwibber icon and inserting the URL in the posting widget. This will make it work for both Unity and GNOME users :)

Re: Drag and Drop Imageshack uploader for Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher

kenvandine — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:43:56 -0000

A simple modification to make it insert the url into a gwibber post would be:

gwibber-poster -w -m "`curl -H Expect: -F fileupload="@$1" -F xml=yes -# "http://www.imageshack.us/in..." | grep image_link | grep -o http[^\<]*`"

Gwibber 3.2 will support image uploads, so I'll add image uploading for dropping an image on the gwibber icon.

Re: http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/4264254580

kenvandine — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:18:41 -0000

It isn't very useful until you hook up all the default apps to use the chromium webapps. For example, if you are in the contacts webapp and you click on an email address of a contact, it needs to launch the gmail webapp in compose mode with the recipient set.

Same for clicking on links in emails in the gmail webapp, if firefox is the default browser and it opens chromium, it isn't very useful.

I agree there has been great progress with webapps, but there is still a ton of work to be done to make them integrate well in the desktop. I am hoping some of the future libunity work with webapp integration will get us even further, but until every app integrates with the installed webapps and the webapps integrate with all the other desktop apps and other webapps you have installed, it isn't very useful.

Don't get me wrong though, I would totally love to see someone fill those holes.

Re: Gwibber lens for Ubuntu Unity available; adds social awesome to the 11.04 desktop

kenvandine — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:01:56 -0000

Yeah, I've been trying to fix that. We have a race condition of some sort at startup. A work around is to run "setsid unity" once, which does a unity restart. It seems to be fine after that.

Remember this is very early development, I just started working on it a little over a week ago :)

Please file but reports at https://bugs.launchpad.net/...

Re: Unity Gwibber Lens (Place) For Ubuntu 11.04 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

kenvandine — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:08:27 -0000

Also note that as we are beginning development on Gwibber 3.2 now, when changes for Gwibber are needed for the latest version of the lens, Natty builds of required version of Gwibber will be in the same PPA.

This is not the case yet, it still works fine with Gwibber from Natty. But some of the features I want to add require Gwibber changes, and Gwibber is in pre-release freeze. So I highly recommend using that PPA.

Re: Unity Gwibber Lens (Place) For Ubuntu 11.04 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

kenvandine — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:04:46 -0000

I would much rather have people test the version in the PPA, so they get regular updates. Last night I made the first release, 0.0.1 :-D

https://launchpad.net/~gwib...

Easy way to add the ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwibber-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-gwibber

I will be updating that regularly, hopefully weekly.

Please report bugs at http://launchpad.net/gwibber and prepend "lens: " to the beginning of the bug summary. Thanks!

Re: Unity Gwibber Lens (Place) For Ubuntu 11.04 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

kenvandine — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:34:45 -0000

Yeah, I am still toying with how to display the global results (Dash). Expect changes there in the next version.

There are some things I can do to speed up search, I need to talk to @kamstrup for advice.

Re: Unity Gwibber Lens (Place) For Ubuntu 11.04 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

kenvandine — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:04:28 -0000

Earlier today I fixed most of the bugs that you can see in that video. I also made quite a few performance improvements. This is very early development version of the lens. I plan to get a proper release that should perform reasonably well sometime next week. Keep an eye out for it, i'll be blogging with links to an official PPA version, and hopefully it'll land in Oneiric when development opens.

I would also love feedback on what Gwibber search results is useful in the global dash, if any. Please give me your feedback! :-D

Re: This is my outlet.

kenvandine — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:17:08 -0000

I love building and maintaining Linux distributions... and am fortunate enough to both do it as a hobby (Foresight Linux) and professional @ rPath