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I got back from Barcelona last night, a couple of hours ahead of schedule. It was great fun, if exhausting – I know I’m not the only one who really needed a nap by Thursday. The really stand-out session for me wasn’t the media player one (I think Seb had that one completely under control [...]

The session I came to UDS to be part of, Default Media Player Choice, is over. The upshot? Well, notes on the session will appear online soon (for now, try connecting to gobby.ubuntu.com with Gobby, and opening karmic-desktop-default-media-player), but the summary? I owe Jorge Castro a beer. The session was productive, everyone had constructive things [...]

Hello there, guys & girls. I’m Jo Shields, I was made a MOTU on Friday, and assuming I didn’t break anything, this is my first post syndicated onto Planet Ubuntu. Whilst waiting for my secret society hood and keys to the Canonical corporate spaceship arrive, I’ll be busying myself with trying to make Karmic more [...]

A short missive on Gnote, which ties into my last post about bloat. Gnote is, for those living under a large pile of particularly non-porous rocks, a fork of Tomboy, doing a line-by-line translation of the source into C++. It was announced one month ago today, and has already seen several releases. Gnote is impressive. [...]

I’m going to take a moment to talk about bloat. What it means, and why one man’s bloat is another man’s necessity. First, a definition: bloat is an arbitrary measure of subjectively “useful” features minus subjectively “useless” features, divided by the size of something (in memory or on disk or whatever). If you want a [...]