The Wanting Comes in Waves,
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so, we’re finally free to show what we’ve been doing for the past six months: it’s been a great ride — and it’s just getting started. we’ve been pushing Clutter forward and center of an entire platform user experience, and it was up to to the …
The Hazards of Love,
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while I’m rebuilding my jhbuild setup in order to roll out gnome-utils 2.27.1 ((hopefully before the cut-off time for the 2.27.1 release)) I started pondering on a couple of questions: why are we still shipping the dictionary applet? and, more importantly: why are we still …
Good for the Soul,
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today was Free Comic Book Day and Marta and I decided to go to a comic book store and get some new additions to the ever-growing collection we have at home. we opted for Gosh as we read a week ago that none others than Alan Moore and Kevin O …
My dear Evolution,,
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please, please stop the utter madness of not showing email addresses in the to: and cc: fields if they match an entry in the addressbook. I’m writing an email. therefore it is safe to assume I know what an email address is. you don’t have to shield me …
Dream About Flying,
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as usual — long time, no blog. my only excuse is that I was busy with other things: new job, new office, holidays… you know, whatever happens between coding. :-) it’s that time of year again, and we’re nearing another Clutter release — this time it’s a special one, though …
Paint the Silence/3: Gran Finale,
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the third and final installment of the ongoing saga thanks to Damien, I finally found a way to shut up libtool and get a clean output for the build of a project: shave. Clutter is the first project using it, and I already easily caught compiler warnings ((even without using …
Last Ride In,
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last night I could not sleep, so I decided to upgrade my old WordPress 2.0.11 (yes, you read that right — 2.0.11) installation to the New! And! Improved! hotness of WP 2.7. unfortunately, something went very wrong in the conversion process and all I got was …
All the Old Showstoppers,
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okay, new rule ((apologies to Bill Maher)): it’s okay to install a GObject property like this: pspec = g_param_spec_string ("title", "Title", "The title of the item", NULL, G_PARAM_READWRITE); g_object_class_install_property (gobject_class, PROP_TITLE, pspec); instead of the usual way you see in other GObject-based libraries, where we l33t h4x0rs dispense from the …
In the Mood,
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well, I failed at blagging each day of the User Experience hackfest, but mostly because of the sheer amount of discussions, designs and work done. during the first common session on monday we all decided to split off into four groups: file management window and application management widgets/gadgets/applets …
Flying Teapot,
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final checks and the usual ohmygodwhycan’tIfindanything mode before I take the flight to Boston for the User Experience hackfest organized by Owen, Federico and Vincent. Neil and I will be talking about Clutter, what it does, and what it can do to enhance the user experience on a modern …