GNOME

• Create Application Launchers in GNOME 3

  Dec 27, 2011

  I often need to create custom application launchers for games, my own shell scripts, or to launch programs with specific command-line options. As such, I have written Desktop Entry Editor to make it easy to create and edit user-defined application launchers.

  Application launchers are simple text files with a .desktop extension that conform to the Desktop Entry Specification. For user-defined application launchers, the ideal location to save these desktop entries is in ~/.local/share/applications.

• 3 Taskbar Options for GNOME 3.2

  Dec 18, 2011

  I am still using GNOME 3 and, to my suprise, I really like not having the taskbar. But, I know a lot of you do want a taskbar and so, here are 3 bottom panel taskbars that you can add to GNOME 3.2.

• Favorites Plugin for Gedit 3

  May 14, 2011

  

  Check out my new Favorites Plugin for Gedit 3.

• Writing Plugins for gedit 3 with Python

  May 09, 2011

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  This is a guide to programming plugins for gedit 3, the default text editor for GNOME 3. gedit 3 uses the Libpeas GObject plugin system and the plugins can be written using C or Python. This guide will only cover writing plugins with Python.

  Some of the information I provide is also found in the Python Plugin How To for Gedit found on live.gnome.org. However, I hope to provide a different approach to presenting the information and add some additional insights.

• "Hello World" in Python with GTK+ 3

  May 08, 2011

  

  Playing around with the newly released GTK+ 3.0 in Python, I thought I would share this simple "Hello World" code which uses the new Gtk.Application object.