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During the course of my Summer of Code project, I’ll not only have to write code, I’ll also have to spend some time on reporting the progress of my project. This consists of the following:

• Send to gnome-soc-list a weekly report
• Keep my  portfolio page up-to-date
• Promote my work on my blog

So, I have to maintain a wiki page with all the information about my project. This page should have all the necessary information about my project, for those people that want to know more about it.

The goal of this page is to inform people about my project (the link you give them if they want to know more) and to make sure that all the information about it will still be available after the summer.

A placeholder for each project at GNOME has been made here: Student Projects

My portfolio is here: GNOME Project Mallard online (Sergio Infante Montero)

gnome-screensaver is more stable than xscreensaver (Occasionally I have been lock out by it), yet the default collection of savers is not as rich.

There are several of instructions of how to do this, including:

Can I use xscreensaver "hacks" with gnome-screensaver? and


Add xscreensaver to gnome-screensaver in Fedora Core 6. But their information is somewhat outdated.

Here is my instruction for F-13, referencing this post:

1. Install xscreensaver-<whateveryyoulike>. (You do want the richness of xscreensaver savers, don't you? :-) )
   
   # yum install "xscreensaver-<whateveryyoulike>"


2. link the xscreensavers binary to gnome-screensaver
   
   # ln -si /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/* /usr/libexec/gnome-screensaver/
-i is for interactive, there is one saver which exists in both gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver.
   


3. Download the migrate-xscreensaver-config.sh script for migrating xscreensaver to gnome-screensaver, as well as the xsl file it needs.
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4. Assuming you put these files in /tmp, run
   
   chomd +x /tmp/migrate-xcreensaver-config.sh


5. Convert xscreensaver config files (.xml) to gnome-screensaver config files (.desktop):
   
   # /tmp/misgrate-xscreensaver-config.sh \ /usr/share/xscreensaver/config/*.xml


6. Restart X server. This can be done by logout-login if you are using GDM or KDM.


7. That should be it.

Μια ακόμη συλλογή με instrumental τραγούδια, που αγκίζουν αρκετά όμως είδη μουσικής, έρχεται να κάνει παρέα στην πρώτη που ανέβασα πέρσυ στο Jamendo. Με άδεια Creative Commons by-nc-sa πάντα   για να την μοιράζεστε (και όχι μόνο) ελεύθερα.

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/67942

Guess what! A new album on Jamendo and of course it’s another creative commons by-nc-sa licenced one . It’s instrumental including various genres. I hope you will enjoy it

Hola! Esta es mi primera vez que escribo en español en mi blog personal. Es porque he cargado mi segundo álbum en Jamendo . Espero que os guste!

Amarok 2.3.1 “The Bell” has been released. Check out the release notes, download, install and enjoy rediscovering your music

The Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 ended, today I returned home in the ugly but familiar city of Bucharest, grabbed myself a bag of nice strawberries and reserved some time to blog my conference conclusions. I'll do this using a few photos and useless ramblings.

First, I should acknowledge we officially proclaimed the secret Fedora lair in Brussels - no photos of it, since if I will tell you the location, I will have to kill you. All I can say, it is into walking distance (5 minutes) of the "Japanimantion" store and (10-15 minutes) of Delirium Cafe. Those wanting to know the exact location, have to perform the secret Fedora gangsta sign (hint: is not the "horns" sign, neither the "telephone" sign).

As I said, the place is awesome, it has a good price, good service, free Wi-Fi, a huge kitchen, breakfast included and so... it also has a shelf full of books... unfortunately most of them in French. I tried to use my bad French to read from one of them and my bad English to translate for the guys, but it was a massive FAIL, the got only the general idea.

As I said, I found nearby my new favorite place in Brussels, who dethroned Delirium Cafe from the top spot. And a few friends of mine are already craving for stuff from there and asking for my next trip:

It was also a perfect opportunity to reveal the homeless people of Fedora (how would you call other the guys eating fries from paper recipients on the stairs of a church?)

Speaking of Fedora, the truth is our talk was totally ruined by Hong Phuc Dang, who talked just after us and charmed the entire audience. Nothing could have surpassed her talk, probably not even Adobe opensourcing Photoshop and making it Linux-only:

LGM was also an opportunity to meet people, like the Argentinian Blender guy, with whom we discovered common friends:

Other interesting random encounters were with the guy from Morocco, who couldn't believe my blog is not written by a woman (!!!) and the Italian guy who talks almost perfectly Romanian:

From the backstage, I can show a "making of" photo of the group photo - yup, it was taken from the above;

My single complaint at LGM was the food: my stomach agreed with someone else I talked there, that green stuff was not food;

Surely, we were not perfect, I think our biggest failure was the inability to participate to the Fedora 13 release party in Belgium, which happened during the LGM, but in a different city, so we couldn't go there and back to Brussels, it was a missed opportunity (on the other hand, I was disappointed nobody from the local Fedora community attended LGM - I wrote on the Ambassadors list and blogged about it, hoping to raise interest).

In the end, I have to get serious and thank Red Hat. Fedora and Max for making the presence of the Desktop Team a reality, without this help it wouldn't happen.