GDD2008 Milan

Today I attended the GDD 2008 (Google Developers Day) in Milan. Was the first time. What a nice experience. Sessions were ok (not all what I expected) but, ok.

Interesting the topic on OpenWeb and the Keynote (overviewing all Google products), not bad GWT and Chrome V8 sessions, disliked the GData API; the content can be interesting but to much code to follow on slides, without the possibility to follow live on our Pc. But I understand... one day for so many things...
I love that Company.

The dream...

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Gnome Icon theme

I recently found an impressive wonderful icon theme for Gnome...
Meliae... now at version 0.2.3


Here the link to Gnome-look
Thanks to Sora for creating and sharing this piece of art!

Metacity opacity change (On inactive windows)

Since one of the last releases of metacity, at least set as default in UBUNTU, inactive windows have set opacity to a semi transparent value. That's nice but... with some skins the effect is terrible.
Here the gconf values to set to achive a nicer look.
(Eventually if you like the opacity effect, my advice is to set to the entire window that effect (using compiz)).
Howto:
1. Open the GConf Editor (alt+F2, gconf-editor, Enter)
2. Navigate to /apps/gwd and set the metacity_theme_shade_opacity Value to 1 (should be 0.75 as said in Ubuntu)
Done!
Here some screens...
...Before

...After