Linux coder life
Most fronted developers use Windows or OS X due to the lack of full Photoshop. But what about those who are not indifferent to Nix systems? Now we’ll try to find out who are interested, I ask for a cat.
As a system I use Fedora 22, no one bothers you to do the same in any other system.
Development environment
They do not argue about tastes, everyone uses the environment in which it is more convenient. On Windows I used Notepad ++, on OS X Coda2, on Fedora I prefer Geany.
For installation:
Often you have to work with files directly on the server, you can use a third-party ftp client or connect directly via nautilus.
In notepad ++ or coda2 I liked the built-in ftp-manager, googled a bit, I found an identical plugin for geany. The plugin copies the functionality with notepad ++
1) Install the necessary packages to build the plugin:
2) Download and unpack to a convenient folder ,
3) Go to the cd folder
4) Collect
After that, you need to activate the plugin in the Geany settings.
This plugin is convenient in that it supports working with profiles. Plugins for Brackets or the same Sublime do not know how.
Unfortunately, the plugin does not work in Geany under Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04 (I have not tried it on other systems), I don’t know what it is connected with. I contacted the author of the plugin, he said that the development of the plugin has been frozen, and it is unlikely that the author will rewrite it for new systems. If someone from the habrasociety fixes the plugin, I will be very glad.
Cutting layouts
To cut layouts, we will use the Avocode cross-platform program, it copes with psd and sketch layouts perfectly and allows you to conduct team work. In terms of speed, the program goes far from adobe extract, try it and you will love avocode.
Download the program here .
The program not only allows you to cut the layouts, but also speeds up the development time, you can read more details here . The program has a trial of 14 days. Further, a subscription is required starting at $ 9, not so much considering how much time this program saves. But no one bothers you to register a one-time account every two weeks?
Also, user xenongattz recorded a wonderful mini-course about this program. I recommend you to familiarize yourself.
Additionally, for fine-grained image processing, install gimp and pinta:
If this is not enough for you, then you can install Photoshop in a virtual machine . In my case, this is not required, because the information is for your own study.
FTP client
There are two options for working with FTP:
1) Creating an ftp connection in nautilus, information on how to connect can be easily found on the network.
2) Using a third-party ftp client.
I prefer FileZilla:
Fonts
Most sites use the default fonts in Windows. To install, download rpm here.
There is no tahoma in this package, you can deliver it like this:
Testing in Firefox browsers
(preinstalled by default):
Chromium:
IE:
Options:
1) Wine or Crossover with IE
2) https://www.browserstack.com/
3) VirtualBox + IEtester
To install VirtualBox (or download here ):
If something is updated, reboot:
username - it is necessary to change the username in the system
After that, install the OS from Microsoft and IEtester in which we will conduct tests. Or you can take a ready-made virtual machine here .
That’s probably all. As you can see, layout - and quite successfully - can be done on Linux systems.
As a system I use Fedora 22, no one bothers you to do the same in any other system.
Development environment
They do not argue about tastes, everyone uses the environment in which it is more convenient. On Windows I used Notepad ++, on OS X Coda2, on Fedora I prefer Geany.
For installation:
sudo dnf install geany geany-plugins-common geany-themes
Often you have to work with files directly on the server, you can use a third-party ftp client or connect directly via nautilus.
In notepad ++ or coda2 I liked the built-in ftp-manager, googled a bit, I found an identical plugin for geany. The plugin copies the functionality with notepad ++
1) Install the necessary packages to build the plugin:
sudo dnf install gcc geany-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel openssl-devel
2) Download and unpack to a convenient folder ,
3) Go to the cd folder
4) Collect
make && make install && make clean
After that, you need to activate the plugin in the Geany settings.
This plugin is convenient in that it supports working with profiles. Plugins for Brackets or the same Sublime do not know how.
Unfortunately, the plugin does not work in Geany under Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04 (I have not tried it on other systems), I don’t know what it is connected with. I contacted the author of the plugin, he said that the development of the plugin has been frozen, and it is unlikely that the author will rewrite it for new systems. If someone from the habrasociety fixes the plugin, I will be very glad.
Cutting layouts
To cut layouts, we will use the Avocode cross-platform program, it copes with psd and sketch layouts perfectly and allows you to conduct team work. In terms of speed, the program goes far from adobe extract, try it and you will love avocode.
Download the program here .
The program not only allows you to cut the layouts, but also speeds up the development time, you can read more details here . The program has a trial of 14 days. Further, a subscription is required starting at $ 9, not so much considering how much time this program saves. But no one bothers you to register a one-time account every two weeks?
Also, user xenongattz recorded a wonderful mini-course about this program. I recommend you to familiarize yourself.
Video
Additionally, for fine-grained image processing, install gimp and pinta:
sudo dnf install gimp gimp-elsamuko gimp-data-extras pinta
If this is not enough for you, then you can install Photoshop in a virtual machine . In my case, this is not required, because the information is for your own study.
FTP client
There are two options for working with FTP:
1) Creating an ftp connection in nautilus, information on how to connect can be easily found on the network.
2) Using a third-party ftp client.
I prefer FileZilla:
sudo dnf install filezilla
Fonts
Most sites use the default fonts in Windows. To install, download rpm here.
There is no tahoma in this package, you can deliver it like this:
cd ~w get http://www.stchman.com/tools/MS_fonts/tahoma.zip
sudo unzip -d /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts ~/tahoma.zip
sudo fc-cache -f -vrm -f ~/tahoma.zip
Testing in Firefox browsers
(preinstalled by default):
dnf install firefox
Chromium:
sudo su
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/churchyard/chromium-russianfedora/repo/fedora-22/churchyard-chromium-russianfedora-fedora-22.repo
sudo dnf install chromium
IE:
Options:
1) Wine or Crossover with IE
2) https://www.browserstack.com/
3) VirtualBox + IEtester
To install VirtualBox (or download here ):
sudo su
dnf update
If something is updated, reboot:
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
dnf install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms
dnf install VirtualBox-5.0
//Добавление пользователя в группу
usermod -a -G vboxusers username
username - it is necessary to change the username in the system
After that, install the OS from Microsoft and IEtester in which we will conduct tests. Or you can take a ready-made virtual machine here .
That’s probably all. As you can see, layout - and quite successfully - can be done on Linux systems.