my programming journey

  Image by Karolina Grabowska from Pixabay Am I the only one who is always annoyed by the presence of dock and panel on Ubuntu? I know Ubuntu got the inspiration from Mac for this, but I simply want to have my screen free of panel and dock. Even on a big monitor, I simply want them to hide in the background. The same with vertical workspace. Am I the only one who feels it unnatural to switch workspace vertically? And there is no switch for this in Ubuntu Settings. I hope Ubuntu allow simpler switch for these in future versions of Ubuntu. It's a hassle to install the gnome extensions.  BTW I installed Dash to Panel extension by charlesg99 to solve the first issue and Horizontal workspaces by fmuellner for the second. My setup is now, to have only one panel on the bottom, that hides normally. I only show it when I need it (with Super+i shortcut). 

  Starting wizard from Android Studio's landing page In one of my "Learn Flutter together" sessions, one participant encountered an annoying issue. Instead of opening main.dart file, Android Studio always opens the MainActivity.java or MainActivity.kt. I didn't know how to solve that issue. Until I got an idea today. Today I happened to run the wizard from the landing page of Android Studio (AS) (see the picture above), not from inside an opened Flutter project through File, New, New Flutter project. It seems that starting the wizard from AS landing page, will show the page where various languages/frameworks can be selected (see the picture below). When starting a new Flutter project, a beginner could have accidentally clicked on Android or Java instead. That creates the issue with the Flutter project. At least this, I believe, was the cause. Therefore please make sure to select Flutter (see no 1 in the picture above) before continuing to the next page!  BTW please a...