Working on my dissertation, I was going through my field notes again today. I came across this snippet from my IRC logs, concerning the high-level design of the GNOME desktop.

<Amaranth> An option where two people disagree on how something will work? Not gnome
<Amaranth> Automatically figuring out what to do based on the circumstances? Gnome

‘Nuff said. Should apply to any user-facing software.

But yes, even after this Zen moment, I’m still writing the book. =)

We all know why GNOME is the most popular desktop in the enterprise. It does so much for users — they don’t have to do a thing while the GNOME daemons get things done. topyli and mc44 were trying to convince aubade of the benefits today.

I think it was a pretty noble effort anyway.

OpenOffice.org has released version 2.4 with many improvements. Congratulations to both developers and users of OO.o! I personally am in no capacity to evaluate it. I’m pretty sure it has about as many buttons and check boxes and sliders as the previous one. I still like Abiword.

The new OpenOffice.org website looks awesome though, double cheers for the clean and usable design!

As usual I begin to test Ubuntu months before is ready, but, for my surprise this release, is the best ever, because as I use to say: "if it works for you then is ok" then I'm so happy to say that "IT WORKS FOR ME".

Another very good feature of Ubuntu is a new version of Evolution "The Linux Email Client", it's actually very smart identifying if you want to send an attachment with your email.

Don't believe it? take a look at it:

Glipper is a Gnome clipboard manager, that helps you manages your... clipboard :P.

It's a copy of the very good idea of KDE called Klipper, thanks KDE for the nice idea.

Homepage: http://glipper.sourceforge.net/
Ubuntu Glipper: install

My screenshot:

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html

It looks like I'm in the good(or at least popular) side of the forces :)

I use both VMware and Wine, because there's no way to run Visual Studio 2005 in Wine :(