Firefox 3.0b3 in Ubuntu

This one comes straight from Rich Burridge's Blog: How to stop Firefox 3.0b3 in Ubuntu to move itself to the current virtual desktop when clicking a link:

browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground=True in about:config

Maemo icon sizes

I had a hard time finding out which icon sizes one has to provide and where to install them for Maemo applications (I'm currently developing for OS2008 "chinook", might be different for other releases). Here is what I found out by looking at the contents of other GUI packages:

26x26 icon goes to /usr/share/icons/26x26/hildon/appname.png
40x40 icon goes to /usr/share/icons/40x40/hilson/appname.png
64x64 icon goes to /usr/share/icons/scalable/hildon/appname.png

The 64x64 icon will be used in the menu, so be sure to make it really 64x64, otherwise the icon will look out of place in the menu. Also, be sure to create an executable "postinst" file in the "debian/" subdirectory of your package source that has at least the following two commands:

gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
maemo-select-menu-location appname.desktop

Where of course "appname" is the name of your application and how you named your icon and .desktop file.

gPodder Configuration Editor

I've had the idea of implementing some kind of about:config-like configuration editor for gPodder for some time now. Not only does it give a nice live view of the current configuration settings, it also makes it possible to edit some configuration values that were previously only available by editing ~/.config/gpodder/gpodder.conf by hand.

Apart from that, we might be able to strip down the preferences dialog to only the really important settings and leave everything else in the "advanced" configuration editor :) I think the interface is quite nice and even looks nicer than the real about:config editor. As with Mozilla's about:config editor, this also marks the settings that have been modified from their default value in bold.