Some of us are just reluctant to change, and Fedora introduces a plethora of new, awesome features every 6 months, which forces us to either learn new features like SystemD, KDE4, Gnome’s Hell Gnome 3 or go the way of…
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Why Gnome 3′s Fallback mode sucks
This is waaaaaaaaaaay different from Why I’m sick and tired of Gnome Shell. Ask every Gnome user. Every Gnome release, developers take away features, while giving us a proverbial carrot, but Gnome 3? They decided to just give us a stick.…
BlueBubble: What I learned
I had a lot of fun recompiling Gnome 2.32 for Fedora 15, and a lot of help too. Here’s a list of things I learned, in no particular order: fedpkg is the best thing ever. It grabs the specs, it…
BlueBubble + Applets
(If you’re reading this, I finished building and uploading the 32bit packages and the 64bit packages. I suggest you clean your yum cache (yum clean all) I spent the better part of the yesterday rpmbuilding a better future by rebuilding…
BlueBubble Errata
The repository was published yesterday, as well as “The Fine Manual“. I’ve updated TFM and the FAQ a few times throughout these days to clear things up and fix some typos I had, just thought I’d let you know. I’m…
BlueBubble: The Fine Manual
Because we’re often told to RTFM, I decided to write one for the project. This guide requires common sense and perhaps technical knowledge of what you’re doing. Upgrading from Fedora 14 – Gnome If you’re using Fedora 14 and want…
BlueBubble FAQ
It’s Q&A Time! Q: What exactly is BlueBubble? A: It’s an effort to bring back the Gnome 2.32 desktop in Fedora 15, or as Hannah would put it.. “The best of both worlds”. Q: What does the logo represent? A:…
Calling in the favor
That pic above? That’s BlueBubble. Gnome 2.32 built and running on Fedora 15. You might notice by the rounded tabs that it’s not running GTK2, but GTK3. Almost everything seems to be working so far. If you pay close attention…
BlueBubble Teaser Video
So, Paulo Cereda made this awesome “Teaser Video” for Project BlueBubble I thought it was too fun to pass. Enjoy!
Project BlueBubble
“If you build it, they will come” Field of Dreams Update: We’ve got a logo now! Building on the previous post, I decided to make a ‘clean’ implementation of Gnome 2.32 for Fedora 15 (And beyond!). Specifically for those of…
