Archive for August, 2010
Here’s how to disable the annoying Update Manager pop-up (technically a “pop-under”) and instead have the update icon displayed in the notification area. Hit Alt-F2 to open the “Run Application” dialog. Type in gconf-editor to run the GNOME Configuration Editor. Navigate to Apps > Update Notifier. Untick the auto_launch checkbox.
This post is an update on integrating Thunderbird with Ubuntu’s notification system. For Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx it supersedes my earlier post on the topic which was applicable previous versions of Ubuntu (Jaunty and Karmic). The big difference in Lucid Lynx is the Indicator Applet and the “Me Menu”, both of these incorporating features related […]
The ability to add custom scripts to report elements is a very powerful feature of BIRT. It allows the report developer to modify or override the default behaviour of the element; this blog features many examples of when this might be useful. However, as the number of scripts in a report increases, the report becomes […]
The technique for alternate row styling described in a previous post is applicable for tables with detail rows (a detail row in a table corresponds to a row in the bound data set). However, it is often the case that the table does not contain any detail rows at all and instead displays only aggregated […]