June 15, 2020
by Rodney Gedda
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I found https://email.faircode.eu/ while searching for an alternative to the stalwart K9 Mail on the F-Droid store. My first impressions are very favorable. It’s nice and easy to use and packed with features. For example, I couldn’t get folders to … Continue reading
November 25, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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Nate is now approaching one year of usability & productivity. Awesome stuff! A couple of things I noticed recently relate to notifications. Discover, the KDE front-end to Flatpak, among other things, does not have a notification icon and the naming … Continue reading
October 29, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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I had a problem with X.org using way too much shared memory with the Nouveau driver. The shared memory was taking up all the physical memory and swap space making the system unusable. Switching … Continue reading
August 12, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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I noticed this display manager bug in KaOS. The default DM has the month number generated alongside the month name. Let’s see what happens.
February 28, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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It’s been interesting following Nathaniel Graham’s blog about usability and productivity developments in KDE. It shows how much the devs really care about user experience, and how quickly things can be changed! Here’s one for you Nate: what should Plasma … Continue reading
September 15, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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The KDE project has announced a partnership with Purism to support Plasma mobile on its upcoming handset. More details here. I’ve been coving alternative smartphone developments for a while, but unfortunately none have made the big time. In fact, in … Continue reading
August 31, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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Great little app for synchronising local Adobe LightRoom images with your WordPress image library: https://meowapps.com/wplr-sync/ Now, if only there was one for the general file system (any directory), not just one app :). Come to think of it, how about … Continue reading
June 30, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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I’ve blogged about ownCloud a few times as it offers a free way to sync and share files among many other features. A while back there was a revolt from ownCloud and Nextcloud was born. I won’t go into the … Continue reading
April 30, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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By now volumes have been written about why Canonical will replace its own Unity desktop with GNOME so I won’t bother to express any further opinion on the matter. The only thing I will say is well done GNOME! I … Continue reading
February 28, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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One of the great features of LibreOffice Writer is word completion in AutoCorrect. As you use Writer every word longer than a specified size will be collated in the Word Completion list. Long words are then suggested as you type … Continue reading