And I Believe California Succumbed to the Fault Line,
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Clutter’s description, and I quote from the website, is: an open source software library for creating fast, compelling, portable, and dynamic graphical user interfaces. and yet, the API to build a user interface is static: you create the actor tree, you tell it how to paint its contents, and …
You and Me and The War at The End Times,
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the actor tree is only the representation of what your user interface is composed of: textures, reactive items, containers to give them structure. if nothing is painted, though, it’s not much of a user interface. with the current stable version of Clutter, if you want to get something on …
Had a dream,
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as I wrote already in a previous blog post, if you try and compile an existing Clutter application with the current master, the first thing you will notice is that the compiler will start complaining about deprecated symbols. a lot. some of these symbols are little used API variants, or …
Calamity Song,
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I have written a bunch of blog posts about the Clutter Apocalypses that have landed in Git, as well as how I see the Clutter API evolving after this cycle and towards the 2.0 API break; they should appear in the next few hours, staggered a bit to avoid …
From my Own True Love (Lost at Sea),
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Third day of the GTK hackfest. They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums… drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We can not get out… they …
An Interlude,
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today I spent the morning at the Developer Conference: Matthias had an interesting talk on the changes that happened in GTK+ 3.x over the past year, as well as his experience in implementing the new GtkColorChooser after the design proposals. then it was multi-touch time. after a recap of …
Youth and Beauty Brigade,
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first day of the GTK+ Hackfest. while we waited for various participants to arrive, discussions started on a couple of topics: accessibility — Benjamin reported on the various discussions and deliberations that happened during the latest Accessibility Hackfest; what we want to achieve is a state in which the accessibility team …
Bridges and Balloons,
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after a rather interesting, albeit not really eventful, journey that spanned cars, buses, a train, and a plane, I’m finally in the lovely Brno — with 2 degrees Celsius and a lot of snow — for the 2012 GTK+ hackfest. unlike the previous two hackfests, and against my usual inability to …
Days of Elaine,
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oh man, it’s getting harder to find blog post titles… clutter 1.8 — last Friday I rolled the first release of the new stable 1.8 cycle, and Rob rolled the first stable release of the now standalone Cogl. it’s been six months of intense development, with lots …
Down by the Water,
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it’s been far too long since the last London GNOME Beer meetup, and we also have the excuse occasion of celebrating the imminent 3.2 release of GNOME. so if you are a GNOME user or developer, or if you just want to meet GNOME hackers here in Good …