Get some Plasma goodness in Gnome shell

Posted by Satyajit Sahoo

Gnome Shell is not mature, but I'm starting to love it :) The main thing I miss while using any Gnome based desktop environment is desktop widgets. Sure, there are many alternatives from screenlets to conky etc. But none of them come as close to the variety of widgets the Plasma Desktop in KDE provides. But thanks to the versatility of Plasma Desktop, you can use it anywhere you want, even on Gnome Shell (yes Unity fans, Unity too).

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Orion - A modern light theme for GTK3

Posted by Satyajit Sahoo

Orion, my latest GTK3 theme, is a light, clean and beautiful theme using the Unico engine. The metacity theme used in Orion is actually a modified metacity from the Boomerang theme. Mutter and xfwm4 themes are also included. It also includes a GTK2 theme which uses the Murrine engine. May be some parts are not finished yet, as it is a work in progress.


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What is Rooting an Android Phone?

Posted by Satyajit Sahoo

Rooting? Are you gonna plant trees? :) Let's face it, most of us don't know what is rooting, and what do we get from it. It can be easier to understand for someone who is a Linux user, but for others, it could be a big mystery. So here is my attempt to explain what I know.

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Gnome 2 and Gnome 3, Now and Then

Posted by Satyajit Sahoo

Gnome 2, probably a much loved desktop till the date. It is both friendly and customizable. In the past I had posted a post Do We Really Need Gnome 2 Forks? I then emphasized on making the Fallback mode more usable to use like Gnome 2. But conditions are different now. Fallback mode will be no longer maintained, as in Fedora 17, Gnome Shell won't require 3D acceleration to work, and there will be no use for fallback mode.

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Install Jockey Driver Installer in Fedora 16

Posted by Satyajit Sahoo

Jockey driver installer is an application which can install various hardware drivers, originally intended for Ubuntu. The guys at Parsidora have ported it to Fedora. The problem is, it is only for Fedora 15. So we will install it in Fedora 16 here.

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