Parcellite v0.7

Finally released v0.7 which I had sitting on the subversion repository for a while because of school/work. Get it while it's hot.

ChangeLog

v0.7 Sunday, March 30 2008

New
+ Added man page.
+ Option to disable/enable saving history.

Changes
+ Removed startup option.
+ Performance improvements.
+ Runs at startup by default in GNOME (remove via GNOME's Sessions application).
+ Config now saves in ~/.config/parcellite following freedesktop.org specifications.
+ Data now saves in ~/.local/share/parcellite following freedesktop.org specifications.
+ Bugfix: Assertion error on first run.

Translations, Coding and Brawl

Over the weekend the lead developer of BillReminder, Og Maciel, mailed me about his app needing an updated spanish translation. I helped Og with some spanish translations quite a while ago when I used BillReminder's source to teach myself PyGTK and I contacted to thank him for his app. So on saturday I entertained myself updating the translations and mailed it to him so he could commit it.

I hacked a bit of Parcellite afterwards and released v0.6.1 which had some bugfixes that were in the svn for weeks. I feel that it is stable enough now to include that i18n header file and translate it to various languages. Maybe Og could help with that.

At night, I went over to a friend's house who had a modded Wii to play some Super Smash Bros: Brawl. Right now I'm having a serious withdrawl, I need to play moar! Can't wait to get my hands on my own copy and practice for competitive play.

Gnome Tweaks

Some of these could already be in effect depending on your distribution. Launch the configuration editor from Applications->System Tools->Configuration Editor or by typing gconf-editor in a terminal. Go down the tree to the following:

/apps/gnome-session/options

Here you can disable the show_splash_screen option for a login boost. Now go to:

/apps/metacity/general

Enable the reduced_resources option for a significant speed increase. A little further down the tree at:

/apps/nautilus/preferences

You can disable show_desktop to stop Nautilus from controlling the desktop. Of course this means that you won't get icons or a right-click menu on the desktop. Then, travel down to:

/apps/panel/global

Disable enable_animations and highlight_launchers_on_mouseover. Finally, if you append the following line to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (create it if it doesn't exist) you remove GTK menu delays.

gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0

White Panel Text

Alot of people don't know that you can overwrite your current theme with a certain file in your home folder. If you notice in the above screenshot, I have white text on the panel while everything else defaults to black. To achive this, simply create the file .gtkrc-2.0 and place it in your home folder. In it, place the following code:

style "panel"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
}
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "panel"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "panel"
class "*Panel*" style "panel"
widget_class "*Mail*" style "panel"
class "*notif*" style "panel"
class "*Notif*" style "panel"
class "*Tray*" style "panel"

Now you can use dark panel backgrounds with light colored themes. To refresh the panel type killall gnome-panel or just exit to GDM and login again.

New Theme

Uploaded a mod of Rezlooks-Gilouche to gnome-themes.org today. The regular Rezlooks-Gilouche used grey text by default, which wasn't true to the original Gilouche theme (which used black) so I changed the text colors and few other minor changes. I was using Clearlooks for a while, but Rezlooks is just blazing fast.


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