gThumb Drivers, No Menu Editor, Deer Park Alpha
So, continuing my adventures with Ubuntu today, I tried plugging in my digital camera. This would be a Nikon Coolpix 5900 plugging in through USB. Linux picked up and mounted it, and Gnome recognized that it was a picture holding device without requiring any braincells on my part. Gnome's default option was to import the images in a photo viewer (gThumb). gThumb, however, could not properly import the photos. It could browse the camera's memory just fine (it is a basic mass storage device, after all), but the import wizard doesn't have my model of camera, so the automation stopped there. Maybe I will try filing something over at bugzilla.gnome.org, but there is only one guy working on gThumb, and I don't have good technical documents on my camera. Supporting the zillions of cameras out there must be difficult.
I also installed ScummVM (to play those old games that are so awesome), and wanted to add it to the Gnome Applications menu. Gnome (after versions 2.8) doesn't have a menu editor! There are absolutely no official programs for doing menu editing! There is one over at gnomefiles, but it is for gnome 2,11, and I'm on 2,10 (there was a huge change in vfs structures between the two, so I don't think it would work). Luckily for me, the other major gnome menu editor is smeg, which the guy is developing with Ubuntu in mind. Lucky me! Had to use a script to install it (smeg isn't in the hoary repositories), but I got ScummVM added to the games section in my menu. Gnome developers should seriously get a menu editor out there!
Also out today is the alpha test 1 for Firefox 1.1 (codename "Deer Park"). One thing that I'm looking forward to testing out is the native SVG support. They're still missing some of the specs for SVG, but it's nice to see this stuff finally being supported and built natively.
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The 3.1 release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (codenamed Sarge) is out on the 6th of June. Are you going to try it out?
Don't think I will try it out. I do like to try out new things, and try out new distros, but I also like to be moderately productive, and reinstalling all my bookmarks and news aggregators and such is just a pain. Maybe if I had multiple hard drives, or one larger in partitions, I would give more distros a try. Hard drive is too small for virtualizing, if that is what you are thinking. Since Sarge and Ubuntu are two slightly different things, I will stick with Hoary until Breezy comes out. Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I might pull the occasional package, or get all those updates when Breezy comes out.
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