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GNOME 3 20 Released With Various Refinements And Application Updates

Changes in GNOME 3.20

• Wayland improvements that should provide a usable day to day experience, including: kinetic scrolling, drag-and-drop, application startup notification, middle-click paste and more;
• Cantarell, the default GNOME font, has received lots of improvements for this release and overall, the text has a far better appearance, with more harmonious and consistent letters at all sizes, as well as new supported character sets, like Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Devanagari;
• theres a new option that allows displaying the battery charge percentage in the GNOME Shell Top Bar. This can be found in dconf Editor: org > gnome > desktop > interface > show-battery-percentage;
• GTK+ CSS theming has had a major overhaul, which should result in easier theme writing and more dynamic interfaces;
• gspell, a new spell-checking library for GTK applications, has been introduced with GNOME 3.20 and is already used by Gedit;
• xdg-app, the cross-distro framework for building and distributing desktop apps on Linux, has matured for the 3.20 release and it includes xdg-app-builder, a tool that makes it easy to build apps, along with other important changes such as support for creating single-file application bundles and more. More info available in the GNOME 3.20 release notes for developers.

GNOME applications

With GNOME 3.20, the Software application now supports upgrading to new major versions of the operating system, along with other changes, such as support for user reviews, support for xdg-app and Limba bundles and more:

• a new, more compact preferences dialog;
• new settings to show action to create symbolic links and to permanently delete files and folders, as well as recursive search settings (to search in subfolders: local only, all locations or never);
• extra zoom level in the list and grid views;
• display available / remaining space for drives listed in Other Places.

• the application now supports pasting images directly into chats;
• server properties are now accessed from the sidebar;
• added support for traditional IRC features, such as tab completion for IRC commands, the ability to open IRC links, support for the /msg command and more;
• Polari can now handle server passwords;
• improved look and feel, with a restyled input bar and new text animations;
• more.

• support for advanced we-based graphics and audio, with WebGL and Web Audio;
• feedback when visiting non-HTTPS sites has been improved;
• new tabs now inherit browsing history when opened from a link (this restores behavior that was lost in a previous version);
• the cookies dialog has a built-in search now.

• the application now allows adding and editing place information from OpenStreetMap;
• place popovers now include more information, like phone numbers or website address;
• the application now supports adding custom layers using common mapping file formats like GeoJSON, KML and GPX;
• added support for printing route directions;
• the application now supports exporting maps as PNGs;
• a new scale ruler was added;
• the app can now open links prefixed by "geo:".

image via chergert

• the app now supports building xdg-app bundles and within a JDBuild environment;
• a new multi-process plugin framework, which adds a wide rage of functionality to Builder, including auto indenters, autocompletion providers, tools, services, search providers, version control systems and more;
• overhauled application preferences;
• autocompletition is now faster and supports fuzzy matching;
• a new To Do plugin was added to track to do items;
• improved VIM emulation;

• Nibbles comes with updated artwork as well as a new retro arcade style, along with a new game screen and better high scores integration;
• the quick add popovers used in GNOME Calendar now allow selecting the calendar to which you want to add the event to;
• tasks in the scheduled view are now grouped under date headings in the To Do application. To Do also includes a new plugin system which will allow the app to integrate with various online task managers (but no plugins are available for now);
• Documents app now allows listing the documents by name, date or author
• Boxes application was updated to automatically create a snapshot after creating a virtual machine;
• GNOME Games now supports MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) and Neo-Geo Pocket.

 

GNOME 3.20 video

Getting GNOME 3.20

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How To Add Application Shortcut To Desktop Context Right Click Menu in Windows

Do you want to add your favorite application to desktop context menu ? If your answer is yes, then this post is for you. There are many third party software available to do the same, but I am not writing about them.

You can add any application to your desktop context menu by simply editing your registry. Just follow the simple steps to get it worked !

Steps
1. Press Windrows + R to open the Run box
2. Enter regedit in the open textfield and click OK
- It will open Registry Editor window
3. In Registry Editor expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshell
4. Right click on the shell node click New > Key



5. Now name the newly created Key to your apps name or anything you wish, because this name will show on the context menu of desktop. I am named it Notepad++.



6. Now right click on the newly created key ( in my case NotePad++ ) and click New > Key



7. Name it to command



8. Now Right click on (Default) of command key and select Modify



9. Now Copy the full path of your favorite application to the Value data textfield.... Click OK

Note : To copy the full path of application. Go to application folder find the apps .exe file. Shift + Right Click on the exe and click Copy as path.




Thats it done ! Now Go and check by right clicking desktop you will see the added menu item in Context menu !

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How To Clear Default Application in Android

If we installed two or more apps which does the same purpose, for example Video Player, Browser, etc. Then, the OS will pop-up a dialog with the available apps which will handle the operation. You can select the preferred app to do the operation Always or Just once

If you made a wrong choice or you wish to clear the app just follow the steps.

How To Clear Default Application in Android ?

1. Go to Settings -> Apps

In some android versions go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications to get the apps list.

2. Find the app you want to reset and select it.

3. Finally tap Clear defaults button.



Thats it....

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How to make a text to speech application using Notepad Tutorial

Hello !!.... Today i will show you how make a simple text to speech application using notepad.It is very easy...just follow the procedure given below & Enjoy your own Text to Speech application.

Step 1

Open Notepad and type the following code :

Dim Message, Speak

Message=InputBox("Enter your text","Text to Speech")

Set Speak=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")

Speak.Speak Message

 Step 2

Go to File and click on save as.Give the file name Speak and  give the 

Extension .vbs

Step 3

A dialog box will appear with a msg like the following picture given below:

Click on yes. A file named Speak.vbs , will be created.This is our Text to Speech application.Just double click on it to open..Type anything in the Edit text box & then click ok to make your application talk !! Here is the Final Output given below :

Enjoy this awesome trick...& for more tricks keep visiting this blog...:)

REGARDS

Shankha Jana

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Global Menu Applet For Cinnamon Desktop Global Application Menu

Install Global Application Menu Cinnamon Applet in Linux Mint or Ubuntu (14.04)

sudo apt-get install unity-gtk2-module unity-gtk3-module appmenu-qt appmenu-qt5

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