Archive for the ‘Gnome’ Category

Localizing Gnome and Ubuntu in Urdu

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

During last few weeks I had been working on the Localization of Ubuntu and Gnome into Urdu. As part of Ubuntu Urdu Translators Team and Gnome Localization Project on UrduWeb, I spent my time organizing the teams and translating some files. I also made a tool Word Bank for Urdu ...

Community Moving Forward

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

We have recently made little but very significant progress toward the translation of Ubuntu in Urdu. When I joined the Ubuntu community, we already had Ubuntu Pakistani Team and Ubuntu Urdu Translators team. Both had a few members, bad Wiki pages and no community leaders at all. Following the guidelines ...

Making Ubuntu Run Faster

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Support forums and Ubuntu Wiki are full of articles to help out people using Ubuntu Dapper on older machines. I am using Ubuntu Dapper with a 800 MHZ processor and 256 MB of RAM. Ubuntu runs well on my system it is not slower than my previous operating system (Windows ...

My Gnome Desktop

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Have a look at what I have done with my Desktop. I am using Gartoon icons and Baby Tux Blue background image. To change the looks of my Gnome Desktop environment all I need to do is to drag and drop amazing themes, backgrounds, icons and theme engines directly from ...

Firefox and Epiphany

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I am now a regular visitor to Ubuntu forums. I find it very exciting to learn the great things I can do with my free Operating system. Few days ago I came across this poll. What do Ubuntu users feel should be the default web browser in Dapper? Epiphany Firefox Opera Before switching to Ubuntu/Linux ...