GTK+ Engine: Nimbus 0.0.16

You can get the latest binary (i386) and/or source RPMs (and the SPEC file) of the OpenSolaris’ GTK+ engine Nimbus (Version 0.0.16, source) for Fedora 9 here. If you want to build the source or the source RPM on your own, you’d need gtk2-devel, automake, autoconf, intltool (>= 0.23), gnome-common (>= 1.2.4), icon-naming-utils (>= 0.8.1).

Here is a screenshot of what Nimbus makes your desktop look like:

Gnome 2.22 desktop with Nimbus GTK+ engine

News media in America

There are several jokes and cartoons on the web showing how little an average American knows about the World minus America. Is there any element of truth, or are all of them mere jokes? Going by the kind of news American media serves these days, there could be some truth in those jokes. Here is a report, ‘How does the news shape the way we see the world‘:

The world as seen by an average American