This website is defunct

Well, it's been a long journey, but yeah. Sorry. Bye, people. This may (or may not be, should I start again later) be my last post.
EDIT: Click here to go to the new website.

Ubuntu GCC problems

Well, guess what: The Ubuntu copy of GCC is messed up. Proof: At configure time (compiling GIMP 2.6 and various development versions, I couldn't wait for 2.6) I get this: "C compiler cannot create executables". And when fixing it, the fix messed up the system. And when fixing it with its own instructions, it can destroy the system or refuse to fix. Apt-get is quite smart, since it warned me. So what next? I'm getting Debian.

Tangerine? What's this?

I spotted another annoying icon set, called "Tangerine". And it gives me even more deja vu than Fedora's Echo guideline page. According to Debian, it's a "icon theme worked on by the Ubuntu Art Team inspired by Tango". "Inspired"? It's just a recolored version of the icons! Have a look and see for yourself.

Non-rants about Tango

If you want to use the Tango icon theme, you can finally stop listening to my rants about distributions and desktop environments and finally start using it.
In Debian and Ubuntu, there is a package named 'tango-icon-theme'. That will install the Tango icon theme. In Debian you will also need to enable the 'non-free' section (silly Debian) to get the package. For the openSUSE RPM, it is available here (Warning: I haven't tested this).

Further propaganda on Tango

The KDE people seem to have forgotten the point of Tango. They thought that they should make their own iconset that reminds me slightly of Tango. I'm not an neatness flamer, but since more and more applications are changing to Tango, including some of the most popular (such as Inkscape), KDE applications are probably going to be the programs that feel out of place, not GNOME.

A note on Tango compatibility...

There is a icon theme known as the Tango Desktop Project, which aims to keep the icons on Linux systems similar. I'm not an artist for the project. A few distributions are not helping with the project. Ubuntu doesn't use Tango but stays closest. On the other hand, Fedora isn't helping at all. They also gave me deja vu with the guidelines.