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I like my desktop to look good (cool effects not needed) and I’m a heavy Gnome-Do user so it has been annoying me for quite some time that when starting Pidgin it looks like this:
So I started searching Launchpad for a bugreport and actually found 2:
Thos bugs led me to a bug report in Pidgins own trac about the same issue. Which led me to download the source code and an usable svg file which I manually copied to my system:
sudo cp ./pidgin-2.5.5/pidgin/pixmaps/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/scalable/pidgin.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/
Long story short… now launching Piding from Gnome-Do looks like this:
YAY 
Tags: bug, gnome-do
Alright… my blog is now officially migrated from Serendipity (s9y) to Wordpress. I created the new webdesign a while back and made a few small changes tonight just before the switch… let me know if you find any problems with it. The design was inspired by a Wordpress theme by webdemar.com.
A while back I found a s9y importer on Michael Tysons weblog which worked pretty well. Since my last visit a german guy had made a few small changes to it to import extended posts. I had a few of those so I grabbed his script. I had to make a small change to the import script in order to get drafts imported as drafts (and not published).
I also had to insert an extra newline before and after the more-tag (<!–more–>) in order to get my markdown working as intended.
To get Markdown support in my posts I installed the plugin ‘text-control’ (even though its fairly old). I had to get the newest markdown.php and replace the one provided by the plugin to make it work (to get rid of php errors).
I had a few posts which have been pretty popular, so I made sure that old links would still work by using “Wordpress Permalinks – Custom Structure”:
/archives/%post_id%-%postname%.html
I had to make a “last minute” change which affects my Wordpress installation in order to get it working. I will blog about that later in a “Hacking Wordpress MU 2.7 – Part 3″.
I hope you like the change
Tags: wordpress
Open Source ftw (sorry I’m mentally damaged from playing World of Warcraft, so I tend to use a lot of acronyms).
Just switched the emotion icons in my Serendipity installation with Tango ones. Here is how they look:
:’( 
:-D 
Sadly Serendipity doesn’t support more… I guess I would easily be able to add more by altering the code. It is PHP code after all, but I’m not bothered to do the change with every update of Serendipity. Anyway I got inspired by reading about Tango Smilies in Wordpress by Jeff Waugh.
I knew the icons existed in the instant messenger Pidgin after reading a blog post from the icon author. I have installed Pidgin on my Ubuntu machines and found the icons in:
/usr/local/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emotes/default
For those who doesn’t know… a few years back I made the site www.debianart.dk which was supposed to be the center of graphics for Debian. It never took off, mostly because I didn’t really have the time and it didn’t help that I started using Ubuntu instead. I was running Debian unstable at the time because I wanted the latest and greatest (Gnome among other things) so the jump to Ubuntu wasn’t really that big.
Now I use the debianart.dk to host my own Debian wallpapers which I’m actually quite proud of
Even though I use Ubuntu now for my laptop and workstation, I still use my own wallpapers (mostly “apt-get install”).
Right before my interest died for debianart.dk I made a Debian package with all the four wallpapers I have made public. Once installed they would automatically be available when changing background in Gnome. A later version of Gnome changed the location of where you should register background images, and I never got it updated… until now. I got an email from a guy asking how the Debian package worked, which made me pull my head of of my ass and get the update done
Download Debian Wallpapers – Modern Swirl
Enjoy
Last week I found this Avatar while browsing the Ubuntu community forums. I really like the style and decided to make one myself which should also look kinda like me.
The result is my own personal “hand drawed” hackergotchi. I used a picture taken at work and Inkscape to do the magic. It might look even better if I applied an uneven stroke like the one from the Ubuntu forums. Right now Inkscape does the stroke which is kinda dull. But it will suffice for now.
I just updated my style sheet so pre-tags containing long lines doesn’t mess with the layout. Pre-tags surrounds all code / terminal examples. I just added the the following line to my pre definition:
overflow: auto;
Stole the idea from Planet Gnome
Really I should update the software soon… I hope there isn’t to many security holes in this shit.
Yesterday I got an idear for a layout for my weblog, and today I actually took the time to realize it. Though it looked better inside my head, I’m satisfied with the result. Of course I used Inkscape to implement it.
I have also used some time tweaking the stylesheet to look good with the html generated by markdown… no I will not stop talk about it
Well Jakub Steiner thinks so… I dunno if I’m a weak person easily subjected to others opinion but I think he is on to something here
Splash screen bringing the truth
Splash screen bringing the horrible truth
I have been battling with Ubuntu to create a Debian package with my wallpapers from Debian Art.
I ran into a bug which I was a log time to realize. I have reported it in the Ubuntu Bugzilla.
Well finally I got the damn package created and you can download it from here.
I have packaged the TIFF CMYK GIMP plugin i found a while back. I got Frank, a collauge, to help me take te first steps. He has fiddled with it before. Now lets se if I ever get it out there