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Contributing Back to Gnome?

I was reading about the Ubuntu Control Center-UCC fever from a lot of blogs and twitter from people linked to the Ubuntu Community.

The author did a very good job. He made  glowing lights come out from people’s eyes staring at the application layout looking very Ubuntuish.

Oh, its beautiful, We need something like that on Ubuntu!!!!

Gnome has an application that does the same work as the shine new Ubuntu Control Center –based on Mandriva’s Control Center– does, take a look at the gnome-control-center.

Ubuntu Control Center

Gnome Control Center

Personally, I think that the right path is something like “Oh, good, can we work together with Gnome and improve gnome-control-center?”

That would make more sense to me than that wooows I’ve read last days.

Contribute to join, not to be apart!!!

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Ubuntu Release Party 10.04 Pictures

The event was a success, the result of a great partnership with Oficina Livre that has supported and contributed to Free Software in our State.

Pictures from the Maceió Party.

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Ubuntu Release Party 10.04 – Alagoas

On May 14  in Maceió and the 15th of the same month in Arapiraca we will be promoting event to launch the Ubuntu LTS 10.04.
This version is a Long Term Support, which means that we have three years of upgrades for desktops and five years for servers.

In Maceió, the event will be held in the auditorium of SENAI starting at 18:00 hours.
In Arapiraca in the event will be in the auditorium of FACOM starting at 13:00 hours.

During the event we will present the new version and features.
We will also have lectures on Concepts of Free Software, User Support, the Ubuntu Community, businness opportunities, etc..

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Shutdown or Switch off?

I found that after the new lucid update.

and got

same thing???

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Conky on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1

Well, as asked  in my last post, here comes the steps used to get that conky layout.

1. Download the Another conky config 0.02 (newer than mine).
2. Extract the file 121331-conkypatch.tar.gz.
3. Edit the conky.conf file,
   1. change own_window_type override to own_window_type root (For some reason override will not draw on desktop in lucid).
   2. change ${image ~/.conkypatch/icons/logo.png -p 18,0 -s 45×45} to ${image /usr/share/icons/gnome/32×32/places/start-here.png -p 11,7}
   3. Add the following line to the end:

   ${font Martin Vogel’s Symbols:size=14}B${font}${voffset -1}Mail: ${alignr}${font DejaVu Sans:pixelsize=10:style=Bold}${execi 10 python ~/.conkyScripts/gmail_1.py n} ${color2}mail(s)

4. Save the file as .conkyrc in your home folder.
5. Download the wallpaper used here.
6. Download the gmail script here and save it to the ~/.conkyScripts folder (Don’t forget to set your username and password in the script).
7. You can download and install these fonts too.

My conky file can be downloaded here.

Thank you Adrian patchpl for this beautifull conky config and Enrico for the Purple sensation wallpaper.

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 Desktop

Here is my  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 Desktop

Pretty good huh???

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