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Every couple of weeks I get sick of my desktop look and decide to got with a new one.

This was my desktop 15 minutes ago…

Now the only thing I kept the same besides the font and the panel transparency are the Faenza Icons. What makes me like them is that their squared shape gives them the feeling of good organization.

Now this is my new desktop.

I am using the new Ubuntu wallpaper. I know a lot of people don’t like it but IMHO if you give it time its kinda takes you in. It has some depth to it if you give it enough space. Thus I changed Docky to be 3D and removed the side dock. The top panel is semi transparent. This is my personal opinion about my desktop so please no offensive comments.

Here is another picture of a modified elegant gnome theme…

Hope you like it…

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I haven’t done much work/conference travelling in the last months (I even skipped GUADEC, boo!), but it seems now is one of those months where random rears its pretty head again.

Right now I am at the other side of the world, in Sydney, a Holiday Inn in King’s Court (interesting neighbourhood…) This is late notice and I might not read my mail anymore, but hey, if you’re around and I know you, drop me a line. I was hoping to see Jan, GStreamer’s release ninja, here, but apparently he lives on the border of New South Wales these days…

I’m here for two and a half days, and then I fly back to Barcelona, and then to Belgium for my sister’s wedding where I am the best man.

My next trip is to the Open Video Conference where I’ll be doing a quick overview of Flumotion and HTML5. The conference is 1/2 of October, so I’ll be going to New York a few days before. I hope to go to FOMS as well for at least a day, but I’m also going to the Business of Software conference in Boston because, hey, we’re a software business! And it’s just around the corner from New York…

Further down the line there’s Streaming Media Europe in London on Oct 13-15, where I will do another presentation and assist in a panel.

And finally I hope to make it to the very first ever GStreamer conference on the 26th of October in Cambridge, but I really should get my act together and book a ticket for that soon…

Now I wouldn’t be me if I wouldn’t try and squeeze a concert into these trips.

So far, I’ve gotten a ticket to see the Walkmen play in Boston on the 7th of October. I want to get tickets to see the XX and Zola Jesus on the 2nd of October in New York, but I can’t make stubhub or related sites deliver tickets to Europe… Anyone in the US feel like joining me for that concert and receiving the tickets ?

It’s going to be a busy fall…

I'm blogging from Arch Linux :D

I've been meaning to setup Arch on my netbook for a while, after hearing a lot of people rave about how awesome pacman is and how fast their system is. I didn't want to spend time on moving to a new distro during my GSoC, so I kept putting it off. Yesterday Ubuntu borked on my netbook for some weird reason (I suspect it was my friend Rathna sitting on it, but might have been because I was thinking of moving to Vim too) - and I took the opportunity to install Arch. After some messing around, and some help from #arch, I was able to get myself a commandline that also connected to the Internet via wifi. Yay!

I tried out LXDE first, instead of my usual GNOME - and found that it was incredibly unpolished (compared to GNOME). So after a bit of a struggle (AND READING DOCS! (and yes, my problem was dbus)), I got a minimal (very application-less) GNOME up and running. And yes, it is way faster. And yes, the packages are newer (and shinier!). And #arch was helpful :)

I've had to (understand and) edit a fair amount of config files to get myself a working system. It's been a fun and informative journey - and I expect it will continue to be. My entire Linux experience so far has been with Ubuntu (hell, even the server I administer runs Ubuntu!), so coming to this world of required-and-encouraged config file editing is doing me good :)

I'm enjoying it :) If you're a geek who loves fast text scrolling on an LCD (and you also have the time), you too would.

Thanks to Flumotion, you can access and view the awesome talks that happened at GUADEC 2010.

I have got those related with Grilo, and put them here. Besides the original WebM format videos, I provide also Theora version (in lower quality, intended to those who can not play WebM yet), and the slides too.

The first is a complete talk about Grilo: what is Grilo, what provides, and some of its features.

The second one is a 5 minutes lightning talk, about using Grilo to create a daemon that is able to provide content to other clients through DBus.

The thid one, is also a 5 minutes lightning talk, that explains the port of Grilo to Maemo 5, and how it was used to add more multimedia sources to N900’s Mediaplayer.

Enjoy them!

• Iago Toral Quiroga, Grilo: Feeding applications with multimedia content (webm) (theora) (slides)

• Juan A. Suárez Romero, Rygel-Grilo (webm) (theora) (slides)

• Xabier Rodríguez Calvar, MAFWGriloSource (webm) (theora) (slides)

• Overslept, not into the 6:45am waking routine from the holidays yet. Fed, and hurried babes off to school. M. looking so tiny and sweet in her new uniform.
• Back to the mail hill, admin, Clarity, tested bootchart2 pieces, merged branches and pushed out a 0.12.4 - with memory graphing from Dave Martin at Linaro, and lots more nice fixes and features from Riccardo Magliocchetti.