by Dave | Nov 26, 2009 | Improving Apps
You may have already heard (and here, here, here, and the announcement here) that KDE just changed their name to KDE. That’s right. What’s that? You don’t see the difference between KDE and KDE? Isn’t it obvious? Now it’s not an acronym....
by Dave | Nov 13, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For the longest time I’ve been getting this error dialog when I log in: Error activating XKB configuration. It can happen under various circumstances: – a bug in libxklavier library – a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities) – X server...
by Dave | Oct 20, 2009 | Tinker Blog
It may seem odd on a ‘Use 100% of the Time’ blog but occasionally I have to use other OSes to check for browser compatibility. Maybe someday I can even throw that out, but in the mean time, this chore is necessary but usually only once every week or two....
by Dave | Oct 14, 2009 | Improving Apps
Do yourself a favor and go read Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier’s brilliant article on what your attack vector should be in convincing users to use your FOSS app. At least, that’s what it comes down to. He says that there’s a mentality among the...
by Dave | Oct 7, 2009 | Improving Apps
I’m excited to announce that I’m refocusing on improving the Linux (and GNOME in particular) experience and to that end we’re changing a few little things like our domain name. After a lot of thought and crossed-out (taken) ideas, I’ve settled...
