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gstreamer-python broke SoundConverter on Fedora 23

Users having installed SoundConverter on Fedora 23 may notice the app will silently fail to run. The issue is caused by gstreamer-python which possibly needs a rebuilt. Running via terminal lead with this message: SoundConverter needs python-gstreamer 0.10! Running python on terminal leads to the following result: $ python Python 2.7.10 (default, Sep  8 2015, 17:20:17) [GCC 5.1.1 20150618 (Red Hat 5.1.1-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import gst Traceback (most recent call last):   File " ", line 1, in   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gst-0.10/gst/__init__.py", line 193, in     from _gst import * ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gst-0.10/gst/_gst.so: undefined symbol: libxml_xmlDocPtrWrap >>> exit ()    Current workaround is to downgrade it using Fedora 22 package via dnf sudo dnf downgrade gstreamer-python --relea...

An uncluttered LibreOffice layout

The current default layout Layout with the main toolbar Here is how LibreOffice Writer looks after removing the toolbar and only keep the sidebar located on the right. To achieve that result, set View -> Toolbars -> Standard unchecked. The benefit is a more focused and uncluttered layout without distraction and also more touchscreen friendly. It will be nice that user interface layout will be more responsive depending the size of the screen. This example is made with LibreOffice Writer 5.0.0.5 running on Fedora 23 Release Candidate 3.

Food for thoughts

Few questions: Does anyone know a better process to save svg file fro Inkscape to pdf while preserving effects like blur and transparency? SVG and PDF models. Why Fedora version of Scribus cannot properly configure the margins and does not use the default system fonts? Bug #446149 has been around since Fedora 8.

Quick Tip - Astuce rapide

English One of the lesser known feature of Gnome is the ability to preview audio file without using application on it by simply hover of that file. French Une des caractéristiques moins connus de Nautilus (Gnome) est l'habilité de jouer les sons audio sans application en les pointant.

How to do an already doomed test

Read this blog MS Office 2007 versus Open Office 2.2 shootout . The test was already flawed from the beginning for the following reasons: The author did not upload the original file which is probably a Excel 97 xsl file as a reference Instead, two different formats were used: one from OpenOffice 2.0 beta sxw which is a compressed file and other a xml file from Microsoft Office 2003 . Since two different formats were used, the test is automatically void of meaning because of the lack of the original file. Renaming the xml file to xsl like the author, I verified if it can be read with OpenOffice 2.2. It does not because the data is interpreted as xml which will exceed the limit of row in Calc application. Office Excel 2003 will render like a spreadsheet due to proprietary XML parser. However, Excel 2003 cannot read sxc nor OpendDocument Spreadsheet unless SUN's Open Document Format plugin is used. The test is unrealistic in real world business because of the size (273 Mib of spread...