If you’re using Firefox, just right click on any links nearby and you should see ‘Send Link…’ in the context menu. Clicking this item will open default email client composition window with this URL, type your friend’s address and the link will be ready to be sent. Now you know what I’m gonna talk about.

It’s one of features I’ve never used since my first browsing experience with good old Netscape 3.0 Gold. It’s also one of my most-hatred features because I always misclick it and end up with waiting Thunderbird to start.

Many people think the same. There is a bug filed in Bugzilla since 2004 but seems that it’s not gonna happen in near future. The best way to get rid of these unused menu items is probably via Menu Editor extension. Anyway, this blog is not about feature rant.

While I’ve never used ‘Send Link…’ context menu, there are numerous times I send links to someone else through other channels. The most common way is copy it (by ‘Copy Link Location’) and paste into IM chat window. It’s very simple process but not the best efficient way. Endless copy & paste wastes my time, energy and effort.

Can we fix this?

People (seem not to) don’t use email anymore. And the incarnation of 2.0 social things brings us a lot of new ways to share and communicate. Beside of IM, I also post some links to Delicious (using bookmarklet), Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook Shared Items. Is there any creative way to share a link from your browser?

An extension to paste link directly to active IM window (or tab) might be useful but how about the other social networking sites? Is there one solution to fit them all?

Writing this blog reminds me the vision of Thunderbird from Mozilla Messaging:

Thunderbird can become a powerful yet enjoyable tool to help individuals manage their online interactions, whether that’s email, instant messaging, social networking messages, or other types of message.

Isn’t this fit for this situation?

วันนี้ครึ้มใจเป็นพิเศษลองเอา KDE 4.0 มาเล่น (ห้ามเรียกว่า KDE4 เฉยๆ นักพัฒนาโกรธ มันคนละอย่างกัน!) เล่นอยู่ได้ประมาณ​ 20 นาที เอาออกแทบไม่ทัน คือถึงแม้ได้ยินเสียงวิจารณ์กันมาเยอะ แต่ไม่คิดว่ามันจะแย่ขนาดนี้

(บล็อกนี้แฟน KDE กรุณาข้ามไป ถ้าไม่เชื่อ ผมใส่แท็ก Rant ไว้ด้วย อย่าหาว่าไม่เตือน)

ผมลงบน Ubuntu Hardy หลังเบต้าแต่ตามอัพเดตตลอด โดยใช้วิธี apt-get install kde4 มันดื้อๆ (เป็นแพกเกจของ Kubuntu) เท่าที่ได้ลองใช้ มีข้อสังเกตดังต่อไปนี้

While I’m reading OpenOffice weekly progression, there is a line about “Icon redesign – Galaxy project”. For an user-interface apprentice, it’s very interesting.

The samples from OpenOffice.org Galaxy page is quite nice.

Current OpenOffice builds on some systems (e.g. Ubuntu) replace old icon set with Tango. While I think Tango is great iconset, I like this one more.

Galaxy information is very scarce. It seems the designers still want to keep it internal. I can find a blog mentioning about it and that blog was written in 2006! Some mailinglist conversations also state that this project is still going on.

Hope Sun can make it in time of OpenOffice.org 3.0. Can’t wait to use this iconset.