TreeGarden

Choosing a color palette for OOo is quite a tough challenge, 12 shades of gray is a lot, 7/8 is the limit of what you can distinguish "easily". So I tried a pragmatic approach, with shades of gray from 25% to 90%, a first row of 6 colors sticking to 10 multiples, and a second one with multiples of 5. Then setting saturation to 100% (assuming vibrant colors are the best to draw charts), there's only the hue left to play with. So aesthetically speaking, it's, hum, perfectible. Slight gradient to darker colors somehow improve the results.

Anyway, IMO, the best way to make colors stand-out on any background are outlines (I like thick rounded outlines, but it gives a cartoonesque look which might be inappropriate). Inverse video is also very efficient, but not always nice to the eyes. Yet another solution is to associate two colors, one for the fill and another one for the outline so your chances of confusion are lowered (2 hints instead of 1). Or to associate motifs to colors (stripes, bubbles, stars), but this does not work for lines.

Anyway, here's a first try

Just to mention an annoying issue while upgrading from FF1.5 beta1 to beta2 (I thought i would upgrade to RC1, but it looks like it is 1.5 beta 2 I got instead)

First it donwloaded a small incremantal patch, but did not applied it succesfully, and asked to download the full version. Now it looks like there is a problem with the XUL file...

Need to display some some tcl code while keeping the freedom of wiki edition ? As simple as using one Macrowiki. Of course, it's easy to add other languages.

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Keeping thunderbird opened is boring, as it takes room in the windows taskbar.

I just installed and tryied Thundertray.

Which works great for me under thunderbird 1.0 French. I guess it works for every version.

It worths a try.

I tried to set Thunderbird working with an MS exchange server on my w2k box at work. Realised it was quite impossible to make it work, and more difficult even because we are on an Active Directory, and the exchange settings are inherited from our AD profiles.

Well I haven't found anything about connecting on exchange with thunderbird on internet, except some IMAP tips , and news about a gateway to MS Exchange from NOVELL that comes open source ...

Maybe if someone have a clue about it, feel free to post here

At least in my local version ...

The align dialog contents changes when you select the Node tool, and lets you align/distribute the selected nodes.

For the momment, nodes are always aligned on the first selected node, but the select master combo box should be operational soon.

I am also looking for a way to show to the user which object/node is the current master. Maybe the Node could be drawn in red or any other color, but for objects I'm not sure this idea is very clever ...

Edit : Now distribute nodes also works :

Binary packages should land soon ...

Things are shaping up. A few more work and I'll reach the point of iso functionalities with the previous code. The GUI part is done, I just have to plug it with the existing engine.

I'm afraid I will not port the engine part to C++ for now, as it depends from too many things, themselves used everywhere in the app (Namedly SP desktop and the selection functions).

I also spent a few minutes to draw new icons for the align buttons. You can grab them from the sourcefore patch tracker. Here is the state of the beast

By the way, it remains only one required bug to fix for 0.39. This should come soon

I was stuck on Inkscape code since a good week. Then I went on IRC ...

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Things are moving slowly, but moving ... I try to write the infrastructure for a gimp2-like docker. With GtkMM and C++ code only. Ok, the path is long, here am I :

I know how to make a window (year, great), a notebook (amazing), and even VBoxes and Buttons (with Images too !). Well, for the little I've seen, the GtkMM API looks great, but I need more experience to ensure it is actually good. For you impatients, a little screenie of what's going on :