The Ugly Duckling called $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Let’s take a look into my home directory:
Read more ...Image with rounded corners (using CSS3)
W3C added nice new options for creating rounded corners of elements to their CSS3 working draft. Engines like Gecko, KHTML and WebKit already implemented these functions, but they use vendor prefixes in the keywords (-moz-border-radius, -khtml-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius respectively), because the feature is not yet fully standardized. That’s also the reason why Opera and Internet Explorer decided not to implement this extension for now.
openSUSE accepted for Google Summer of Code 2009
Folks at Google announced the list of accepted organizations for Google Summer of Code 2009 tonight. I am very happy that openSUSE was included again. Of course, we don’t want to disappoint them, so keep your great ideas coming! :-)
Read more ...Popcorn - Popularity Contest (for RPM)
A few days ago I came across Feature #305877. What is it about? Well, Debian has the Popularity Contest, which tracks installed packages, how often they are used and sends an anonymized report once a week to their server. This maps the usage of Debian packages and as a nice side effect Debian guys can estimate the size of their user base on various platforms and releases. This also gives information about the community structure (e.g. how many users use development tools or graphic applications). This would be a very neat thing to have in openSUSE too!
Read more ...Xfce 4.6.0 released (and ready for testing!)
The Xfce development team announced today the release of the long-awaited 4.6.0 version of their Xfce Desktop Environment. There is also a very nice Visual Tour prepared by Jérôme Guelfucci and Jannis Pohlmann, which highlights some of the new and exciting Xfce features. For me, the most vivid change is the complete rewrite of the Settings Manager together with its configuration backend, but I’m sure that everybody will find his/hers own favorite :-).
Read more ...Parallel command execution with limits
Randy_sk asked today on IRC if we had any idea how to run commands in parallel, but he also wanted to limit the number of the concurrent processes. I immediately responded: “use make”. I started to shape my idea further until I came to this Makefile:
Read more ...Change in command-not-found handler default behaviour
Due to some requests on mailing lists and Feature #305803 I decided to change the default behavior of command-not-found handler (in openSUSE 11.2 and SLE11).
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