Banshee CVS/Xfce

I’ve been using Banshee CVS with Xfce 4.4Beta1 with Ubuntu Dapper, everything seems fine. Except for the fact that Banshee 0.10.10 used to use ~30 M on my machine and now the CVS Version uses ~75M, which is a bit disappointing. I can afford it luckily so I don’t care as much because I have 768 M of RAM. But it concerns me that all the other Mono apps are very resource-intensive as well, such as F-Spot, Beagle, etc. Maybe I should move from it – I don’t know because these applications are great and I like what they’re doing and their design etc. But I’m really concerned about the “Resource-Hungry”-ness of these apps. Anyways, Banshee still rocks for me.

On a side note, Epiphany Web Browser (GNOME Web Browser 2.14.2.1) is really great. Today I noticed that Mozilla Firefox was using > 100 M of RAM with only 1 tab open. Then I opened up Epiphany and while it wasn’t much better (~65 M ), its still more responsive and looks better with Xfce because of its Gnome Integration, and hence the GTK Integration. Here’s a screenshot.

Xfce with Terminal-0.25-svn something and Banshee CVS [July 21st?]

/me waits until Xfce 4.4 Final releases.

Screenshot for the month (July 2006)

I was trying to test a Radio Station for someone and realized that my favorite player didn’t have that support yet, so I just built it from CVS and works great. GNOME 2.14.2/Ubuntu Dapper/Slab, etc.

Slab Video

So I was just playing with Slab, and was looking at some website, and I was wondering how you take a video of your screen when you’re doing things and found out how to use xvidcap, etc. So here’s a video of Slab, if you’re too lazy to click on each of the 10 screenshots given below.

Slab 0.6.2

I’ll link my previous post to this post as well so it’ll maintain some consistency, etc.

Novell’s New Main-Menu: Slab (GNOME Main Menu 0.6.2)

So, On Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS, I’ve installed [from cvs] Slab after customizing it a bit by changing some YaST2 Specific Entries in the schemas, etc.

Here’s a screenshot tour of what it looks like on my GNOME 2.14.2 desktop:

When clicked on Computer [in the bottom left corner]:

Then, there is another field called Recent Applications that keeps track of all the recent applications that were launched from the panel/application browser/favorite applications, etc. I have not yet gotten this part to work in Ubuntu but I’ve found out how the SUSE Linux guys do it [or well, SLED10 Guys], and have not yet found a solution.

Then, there is the well known, recent documents, that exists in the regular gnome menu under places.

Then, there is something that is not available in the regular gnome main menu, which is “Search”, which uses Beagle-Search search your harddrive, etc.

Here is the actual search window that it opens, which is not new to us (beagle-search GUI):

Then, there is something that I really liked about slab, a control center. Even though I did enjoy the simplicity that GNOME menu had with the preferences and administration [in the Ubuntu Menu anyways], I liked this approach a lot better. So here are two screenshots of the Control Center that comes with slab. I also did have to mess with the code and the schemas to get it working but its not all that hard.

Here’s the control center, when you select something like “Preferences”:

Now another aspect that I enjoyed about Slab is its application browser. When you click “More Applications”, the application browser starts up, and its really nice and pretty fast to navigate through as well. Three screenshots here, one with the main window, one with “System Tools” selected, and one with something being filtered. I enjoyed this.

Overall, I think Slab is a very fine piece of software, and I really hope that the Upcoming GNOME Releases think about offering Slab as a menu choice with the recently-used-apps working, etc.

Update 06/11/06: New Slab Video

Hello

This is my blog for my ideas about GNU/Linux, World Politics, Society, and also Quantum Physics. Quantum Physics is a senior project [an independent study with a college credit] is what I’m doing next year, so hopefully, you’ll see some neat information.

Anyways for today, I’m running Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS, where I’ve installed a lot of stuff from source, etc. [who doesn't anyways?]. So yeah.. i like my GNOME desktop.. w00t ?