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The idea is very simple:
A clean and simple conky config with only the basic system information with a fake background.
There are 2 kind of “backgrounds” for this conkyrc (white & black) edit your wallpaper with Gimp (or Photoshop) to make it work, looks great with a 1280 x 800 display config.
Download at Gnome-look.org
Looks great with my current desktop config:
Last week was the GNU week, It was a very big event with many conferences which principal topic was Free Software (free as in libre).
Some important persons spoke about the freedom of choice and the revolution of open source and free software. Actually, there is a review of these conferences in this blog (sorry dude, its in spanish).
Well, now im gonna show you all the cool stuff that i’ve got those days, besides of the experience of having attended lectures about free software, and have known people like Leonel Nunez and Richard Stallman
Unfortunately I could not take a picture with Richard Stallman because I had to leave early (so sad for me…). But hey! look ah this:
Leonel Nuñez, Alejandro Acosta and Richard Stallman were giving away stickers of the FSF, Ubuntu and Fedora, and members of Gluch were giving away Ubuntu cd ‘s (they had 400! of them). so they gave me this:
A bunch of cool stickers
More stickers and a Fedora hat. The Fedora hat had a price, but a friend of mine paid for it and gave it to me
So it was a pretty cool GNU week, I really hope the next one is better
I took the texturized hardwood wallpaper from ~Mosqu1t0 and I added the ubuntu, debian, gnome & open suse logos. It fits pretty well w/ the ubuntu default clearlooks theme and oxygen refit orange mod. It looks pretty well actually:
The wallpapers pack is set with the Ubuntu, Debian, Gnome and SuSe logos.
i’ve totally forgot to comment it here but my aurora theme is finished, actually it’s in its second release. 
This version works pretty well with the elementary icon theme and it has a more polished look.
Remember that this theme requieres the aurora-gtk engine.
You can find more info about the Elementary Desktop Project Here and Here
Hope you enjoy it
The Elementary Desktop Project was created as a response to KDE’s Oxygen/Appeal projects. It’s a full theme pack for gnome 2.2x, it includes Gtk 2.x theme, GDM, Icons, Wallpapers, AWN theme, and more stuff.
At this moment the gtk theme is working w/ clearlooks engine and it looks good with both metacity and emereald window borders, but I think that this theme can be improved if I fork the gtk theme to the aurora engine, just to to improve the progress bars and menu buttons. So, i gonna work on that this weekend.
I will post the Elementary Aurora theme both here and gnome-look.org, just for the fun! hope you like it
Why I use picasa instead of flickr, photobucket or my own self hosted images? It’s simple: space and comfort.
I dont use my own domain space to store my pics because I use a lot of screenshots. (I don’t use them all in this blog) So I really need the 2GB space that Google offers me to store all my pics. (mostly all my geeky and public-use pics) I don’t need to worry about the space in my domain. It’s like posting software or movies in rapishare instead of my blog to avoid internet traffic or other probelms, I could store my own pics but, hey! why bother? let Google do the job.
Now, I chose Google instead of a huge amount of options because Picasa has a desktop utility for Ubuntu… and it works, (it really does) with no virtualization issues, no wine-cfg nutcrack. I just installed Picasa in a few steps:
Edit the repo’s list:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add a repo (as always)
# Google testing repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free
Get the public key, and add it:
sudo wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub sudo rm linux_signing_key.pub
update & upgrade the repo’s list
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
install Picasa
sudo apt-get install picasa
With this I can go to Applications/Graphics/Picasa. Then, I can manage my local data (pics from the pc), my web albums (public and private), upload, download, edit and delete pics as I wish. Now I can use my screenshots directly from my web album for my weblog posts. I can redirect the users to the albums that they need (remember the virtualbox how-to that I made?) and keep control of my stuff.
All this sounded like a cheap commercial for Google, but that’s far form the truth, I’m only saying that Picasa works well in my Ubuntu 7.10 desktop, and I needed to practice my English! ;p
