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I had conversion with a new Fedora user who like Gnome Shell asking if it is possible to move Tweak Tools to Settings. I think it makes sense under Personal category and labeled as Advanced.

The latest itteration of Design Suite was successful using the latest stable release of Gnome 3.10.x. This time the testing went much better with some fixes to address. The goal to include applications with the style of Adobe Creative Suite is nearly complete with: Gimp (Photoshop), Inkscape (Illustrator and Framework), Scribus(InDesign), Premiere (PiTiVi), Acrobat (Evince, PDFShuffle, Xournal), in addition of Paints, Blender 3D and Hugin. Looking at the future release, here are some possible updates to implements: Add more categories for Gnome Shell (see  How to enable categories in Gnome 3.8 Shell application menu ), More plugins for Gimp notably gimp-separate+ for rudimentary CMYK support although Scribus does a better job, Inclusion of Tweak Tools . I personally think that application should be part of Setting Tools and possibly renamed as Advanced Settings, More Gnome 3.12 features Stay tuned...

I recently discovered it is possible to listen to a music from smartphone connected with a laptop via Bluetooth. The test was done using a custom cyanogemod for a discontinued Samsung Galaxy Mini Dart and an updated Fedora 20 beta using BlueZ5 . The sound is jerky probably due to probably the hardware limit.

Design Suite includes new tool like Gimp Paint Studio and Phatch. Inkscape course icon has moved under the tutorials section made in Design Suite wiki. If you have more tutorials you would like to add, simply edit the wiki section.

Looking at the audio format, I learned about Ogg Opus , the successor of Vorbis. I was impressed with the sound quality at lower bitrate and the fact it uses much lower latency suitable for realtime streamer and VOip. The fact Opus is the audio standard prompted to slowly convert some of music collection I have. Reading Auphonic website about the comparison against MP3 , the sound quality is even noticeable meaning it is very usable online. I will see Opus use in much broader audience, its patent-free advantage is a welcome change toward audio industry especially mobile devices. I hope upstream will switch to that format.

The current graphical interface for PackageKit, gpk-update-viewer and gpk-application, found on Gnome Shell for Fedora 19 will be replaced by Gnome Software in the 20 release. Running the early version through virtualization shows the potential of become more user-friendly. The appearance is a mix of early Google Play formely Marketplace and Ubuntu Software Center itself derived from Linspire Click-n Run The category is much better structured in, for instance, Graphics grouping sub-categories like Photography. Currently, Gnome Software is still in progress but functional enough to do install/update/remove.

Design Software Special Interest Group (SIG in short) is born to fill the need of actively maintain packages related to design and include those unavailable in Fedora repository. The SIG has a wiki located on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Design_Software which contains information about the mission and its fonctions. A big thank you for the Design Team for approving the initiative and the Infrastructure team for helping to set up the FAS account.

Hard to believe it is already more than six month I maintained Design Suite. Looking at the previous release, I have been encouraged by some Suite users about the successful launch despite a minor issue from some applications notably Cinepaint. I missed the first ever Flock event as I deemed unready to present the suite yet and I had other commitments. However, Máirín's excellent recap allowed me to follow the activities of the project for more inspirations. For the 20th release of Fedora, I looked at similar suite like Ubuntu Studio website for inspiration purpose. Showing the application with pictures are good highlights meaning the Wiki section will have some updates. Design Suite using Gnome Shell as a base will enable the category, customize the dock to highlight the main graphical applications and include some tutorials. New applications and plugins for Gimp and an extension for Inkscape named sozi are added. One of package that will be hopefully available on repositor...

English Titillium typeface or fonts is now packaged for Fedora and should land on Rawhide repository followed by Fedora 19 and 18 as well EPEL repository.  Because Fedora 17 will reach the end of life support at the end of July 2013, the package is not included for that release. Français La police de caractère Titillium est empaqueté pour Fedora et devra arriver au dépôt Rawhide suivi de ceux de Fedora 19 et 18 ainsi que le dépôt EPEL. Puisque Fedora 17 vient à terme à la fin du mois de juillet 2013, le paquet n'est pas inclus.

English: Want Firefox to looks like Gnome Web? Français: Desirez-vous Firefox paraître comme Gnome Web Integration Firefox Gnome Shell Theme: Gnome 3 Omnibar Integrates location bar and search bar into one. Shows search and url suggestions. HTitle Status-4-Evar: Status bar widgets and progress indicators FxButton Change menu and give an opportunity to move "Firefox" button.

English Fedora 19 is officially released including all available spins. Design Suite, free of Live CD size constraint, can be used through either DVD or USB drive (2GB minimum). Based on latest stable Gnome Shell, the spin now includes several new tools by default like Gpick for colour selection, Hugin for panoramic pictures, pdfShuffler for add/remove pdf files and Bluefish for web design. Unfortunately, Cinepaint failed to start due to bugz #904256 , other packages runs smoothly. You can download it via this channel . Design package in Fedora has been updated to closely match the spin version with additional typefaces like Comfortaa, Adobe Source Sans Pro and Overpass. That package is suitable for those wanting to use a different desktop environment. Français Fedora 19 est officiellement sortie incluant les variants connus sous le nom de spin. La Suite Design, libre des contraintes de la taille du CD, peut être utilisé sur un DVD ou un lecteur USB. Basée sur la dernière version ...

English Design suite for Fedora 19 will be available in few days. That is my first ever spin release for the community as a maintainer. You can view the features which are based on Gnome Shell 3.8. Please give a try using either a DVD or USB. Thank you for the Spins Special Interest Group for helping working on this project which was an uncharted territory for my skills.

Displayed version of yum: $ yum --version 3.4.3 Installed: yum-3.4.3-95.fc19.noarch Here is a list (incomplete because of missing documentation about autoremove ) List of Commands: check Check for problems in the rpmdb check-update Check for available package updates clean Remove cached data deplist List a package's dependencies distribution-synchronization Synchronize installed packages to the latest available versions downgrade downgrade a package erase Remove a package or packages from your system groups Display, or use, the groups information help Display a helpful usage message history Display, or use, the transaction history info Display details about a package or group of packages install Install a package or packages on your system langinfo List languages information langinstall Install appropriate language packs for a language langlist List ...

gpick is available in Fedora repository under version 0.2.4. The reason the package does not match upstream is due to a bug related to lua dependency . I submitted a request for bundling exception due to that circumstance. As a packager, it is the first time I stumble into crucial issue.

English Yum has autoremove feature since 2010 but there is a simple command to do so: yum autoremove Here is quick example below. Français Yum a l'abilit&eacut; d'"autoremove" depuis 2010 mais il existe une commande plus simple sur la version recente 3.4.3: yum autoremove Voici un exemple ci-dessous   $ su -c "yum autoremove"  Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit  Resolving Dependencies -->  Running transaction check --->  Package gnokii.x86_64 0:0.6.31-4.fc18 will be erased --->  Package net-snmp.x86_64 1:5.7.2-5.fc18.1 will be erased -->  Finished Dependency Resolution -->  Finding unneeded leftover dependencies --->  Marking lm_sensors-libs to be removed - no longer needed by net-snmp --->  Marking net-snmp-agent-libs to be removed - no longer needed by net-snmp  Found and removing 2 unneeded dependencies -->  Running transaction check --->  Pac...

My venerable Toshiba Satellite C650D got upgraded from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19 branch using yum because fedup-cli command could not update the kernel with either --instrepo or --skipkernel paramenter. The upgrade also fixed an outstanding issue related to the lagging Nautilus file manager while opening inside Gnome Shell (now version 3.8). A welcome change on that release is the ability to control notification messages, search and privacy (better late than never). Switching to different keyboard input is much easier with Super+Space (English, French, Japanese). The new user interface for system setting seen on Network, is easier for the eyes in term of readability. The crash report known as ABRT received a new interface but needed some refinement layout side although it is much better than the previous version found on Fedora 18. An year and half annoying issue is the inability of Calendar to recognize Thunderbird Lightning. I installed Ligthning extension and still no dice...

English Initial revamping of Design Suite is completed with approval from Design Team. Nightly compose is currently broken but the local built currently resulted an "Oh no!" message. I took over gpick (much needed)for review but no reviewer yet. gimp-seperate+ is underway but the submitter is currently ill. I guess making Design Suite more professional is still a long way...

After taking maintainer-ship, the challenge is much bigger than expected with outdated information on the wiki and unmaintained ks file for a long time. Worse is the current spin on Fedora 18 has broken login authentication which I did not have a chance to test it. Learning from these lessons, here is some high goals: Rewrite the entire wiki of Design Suite. Select new default packages. Include fonts used by Fedora Design Team. Rework the entire ks file using desktop media(Gnome Shell) as a base. Increase the maximum size of livemedia to 4GB.

English 2012 is over, 2013 has begun.  I recently accepted to take over Design Spin from Fedora Project and immediately worked on packaging overhaul for Fedora 19 Release taking advantage of Gnome Shell features like. The goal is to set Design Spin as a nearly professional free and open source suite. Martin awoke Echo Icon project with some revamped iconset. Task will be challenging but it can be done. Français 2012 est terminé, 2013 a débuté. J'ai récemment accepter de saisir Design Spin du Projet Fedora et immédiatement effectué des changements d'empaquetage en prenant avantage du bureau Gnome Shell pour la sortie Fedora 19. L'objectif est d'établir comme une suite infographique professionelle que possible en utilisant les logiciels libres. Martin a réveillé le projet Echo Icon avec des icones redesinées. La tache sera hardu mais surmontable

English It has been a while I wrote on this blog because I am busy running my own design business. Aside that, I recently plug an Apple iPad 2 to import pictures and videos on a Fedora 17 running Gnome Shell 3.4 out of box. It is remarkable what a free and open source software network can do to a device intended to primarily run on iTunes software. Français De retour après le manque d’écrit sur ce blog en raison d'affaire professionnel relié à l'infographie. J'ai récemment branché l'iPad 2 d'Apple pour importer les photos et les vidéos sur le système de Fedora 17 roulant sur Gnome Shell 3.4. C'est remarquable qu'un réseau de logiciels libres peut supporter sans problème un dispositif conçu pour l'usage du logiciel iTune.