Linux

• 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.

• Gedit as a Django IDE for Linux

  Sep 12, 2011

  Configuring gedit as a Django Text Editor in GNOME

  That's right, gedit, the default text editor in GNOME, is actually a pretty bad ass IDE for Django web development. To those who have not really explored gedit it looks much like "Notepad" at first glance. Do not be fooled. gedit is incredibly fast, efficient, and stable. That makes it a great editor. Pair a great text editor with the right plugins and you got yourself a clean, lightweight, simple IDE.

  

• Using GSettings with Python/PyGObject

  May 07, 2011

  This morning I began tinkering with GSettings in Python, the new configuration settings API used in GNOME 3 (replaced GConf). I am using PyGObject , the new GLib/GObject/GIO bindings (replaced PyGTK). Here is the example program I used to get my feet wet along with a short tutorial.

  Keep in mind that I've been tinkering with the GSettings API for all of a few hours. Please feel free to comment on this post if I have provided incorrect information.

• Source Code Browser for Gedit 3

  May 06, 2011

  

  I have just switched to GNOME 3 and as a result, my old Symbol Browser Plugin was no longer compatible with Gedit 3. Since I have grown pretty dependent upon this plugin for daily use, I had to hunker down and put out a new plugin: Source Code Browser for Gedit 3

  The new Gedit plugin is written in Python instead of C (so that it is easier to install and update) and has some prettier looking icons. It is fairly similar in functionality but I have dropped some of the less-used features in favor of simplicity.

  You can read more or download Gedit Source Code Browser at Github.