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It’s been a quirky day 1 of using Intrepid Ibex. For one thing, F-spot seems to be opening the directories in the “Places” menu. For another the updated version of Gimp is a bit different already because it uses “Create” instead of “Acquire” for one of the menu items. I only found out about it when I was trying to get a screenshot of my desktop. =_=
Aside from that, I really liked these things:
- The eject button on the side pane of the file manager. The button is beside the removable media I connected to the system. It’s easier to use that rather than the old style of right-clicking the name of the media first.
- The status is interesting because I could easily change it without having to change it on Pidgin. It’s already on the top panel with the rest of the others.
- Files could be encrypted via the right-click menu on it.
- I liked the theme. Just that I thought that Dust looked a bit better. :)
I have yet to experience using Intrepid Ibex a bit more so that I could write about other things about it.
First up is Dust, a proposed Ubuntu theme. But even if you’re not using Ubuntu, this theme is really pretty. It is a bit dark like the Intrepid Ibex default theme but it looks cleaner and really sleek. I am currently using it instead of the default theme.
Other themes you might also want to check out if you like dark-colored themes:
Shiki Colors — this even has matching icons and wallpapers as well as a GDM theme.
Midnight Dream
Another clean-looking theme I love is the one that looks like Google apps. It’s called Google-Gnome Metacity. It is more of the really light blue kind of theme.
If you really like it light, you could also take a look at ICE. It has an icy cool feel to it, considering how light the blues are in this theme.
Hope you enjoy these themes!
Quicktweaks shows how to let your GNU/Linux system say something. Isn’t that fascinating? You can have your computer tell you that you have mail, or you could have a story read out loud if you need to be away from the keyboard for a while.
espeak is the tool that article mentioned and it seems like a really cool thing. You could even define phonemes. This is useful if you would be using this tool a lot.
I could imagine people who would like to have their e-books read out loud when their eyes are already tired. Aside from that, it could be used to announce something or if you want a consistent voice over in your slides, you could use the file output of espeak so that you could use that too.
Enjoy playing around with espeak!
Intrepid Ibex — what a name! And what’s up ahead with this Ubuntu release?
First up is the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment, GNOME 2.24 :) As such, File Roller has additional files being supported such as TAR.7Z and RZIP file types. Another improvement included is that of X.Org’s :)
But this is the feature that got me even more curious about the latest release: Network Manager will support 3G networks. I suppose this means I could connect to a #G network using my phone :D Sounds great for the days/weeks that we have troubles with the internet provider at home. This is also going to be awesome for those who want to be online any time using their laptops and netbooks.
Another interesting feature is the encrypted directory. You could store private files in ~/Private and have them encrypted. I hope to try this as soon as the update on my machine is done. This feature is said to be still new and this needs to get tested first. Hopefully this would have constant improvement so that users who want this kind of feature would find it nifty.
Which features are you looking forward to?
I’ve been wanting to read certain e-books on my DS Lite and I didn’t really search much about the topic until recently. I also thought that I might have to use Windows to do whatever file conversion. We Linux users actually have tools available to us already :D
Enter DSLibris. DSLibris is a homebrew app for the DS Lite. You could use it if you have a DSTT or an R4 card. (I am not too sure if it works fine on other such cards.) This reader supports only the xhtml format so you need to convert your files first if ever. Most of the e-books I see are in PDF but luckily there is a pdftohtml tool. So here are the steps:
1. Download the DSLibris archive from Sourceforge.
2. Unpack the archive and copy the files to the root directory of the microSD you use on your DSTT (R4, or whatever).
3. Convert the PDF file to HTML using the pdftohtml tool.
4. Clean up the file and convert it to XHTML using Tidy. Luckily there is an online version of Tidy if you don’t want to install it. Make sure that you check the “Output XHTML” box so that you could save it in that format.
5. Put the converted file into the book directory of DSLibris.
So far, I’ve only put two files and the first file I’ve put there is the one it recognizes as the primary ebook.
In any case, I just thought of sharing this with you who are on using GNU/Linux and are finding ways on how to use your DS as an e-book reader.
