How many times were you sitting in your chair stumped about what colors to use on a website? Or maybe you just want to refresh the look of your desktop with a new color scheme? Perhaps you just need to find the perfect color for that page background.

Whatever you need to do with color, use Agave to do it. In all simplicity, it is a color picker. However, it also generates schemes based on that color and lets you modify the brightness and saturation of the color if it just doesn’t feel right.

Got a favorite color you want to save? Just add it to the Favorites list. You can look at that color any time you need some inspiration for a theme. When you find the color you want, just right-click it and Copy to get the hex code.

It’s a decent, simple application, and it shows up just in time for a redesign of your site.

Agave can be installed as “agave” in your system’s preferred package manager.

Well, no, not a food olive bazaar (though that would be tasty), but rather Olive, a GTK GUI for Bazaar, a version control system similar to GIT and Subversion. We’re not going to go into the differences between the systems, but rather focus on this interesting application, now merged into the Bazaar GTK project.

Olive basically takes all of the CLI commands for Bazaar and mashes them into a nice, clean GUI.

You can view differences in a window, as well as all of your changes and branch statistics. There isn’t much more to it: it really is just all of the CLI commands presented in a nice way. How handy (and possibly tasty).

Remember the good old days when to change a screen resolution or driver, you had to edit xorg.conf or reconfigure X.org? Those fine times are now over, or they will be, with the release of Ubuntu 7.10.

As of an update from a few days ago, users are now able to access a graphical user interface for editing xorg.conf, though only for graphic and display settings. This tool has support for dual monitors at the moment, and with the release of X.org 7.3 it will be possible to add even more. You can turn on and off both (or one) of your monitor(s), change the available resolutions, orientations, and set mirror or exteneded desktops.

On the Graphics Card tab, you have a selection of drivers and video memory. You can pick your graphics card and have it select a driver for you, or you can choose the driver yourself (useful for binary ATI/NVIDIA drivers).

The Test feature as of writing is a little buggy, but this is an alpha version still; updates will follow.

This feature is actually Ubuntu-specific at the moment, though other distributions are sure to adopt it soon. It is part of Ubuntu 7.10’s “Bullet Proof X” blueprint that states, in a general sense, that if X for some reason fails to start, then it will fall back to a failsafe mode with this GUI running to help get you back on your feet.

There is much improvement to be made with X as 7.3 releases, but whether this will make it into Ubuntu 7.10 in time is another story. Feature freeze is now in effect, however it was broken for an X update once before. Whether we’ll see it all depends on when it is released. Count on FOSSwire for our take on X.org 7.3 later this month or next.