Enterlude,
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I’ve just sent this to the Clutter mailing list, but I guess that more exposure is fine as some of you might already know, we have started working on a reference “toolkit” based on Clutter called Tidy. Tidy is a simple library containing some useful actors and interfaces which …
Paint the Silence/2,
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Continuing the ongoing saga… Using the --silence hackery from Jacob Berkman I found a way to finally STFU at least libtool. In your configure.ac add: changequote(,)dnl LIBTOOL="\\$(QUIET_LT)${LIBTOOL}" changequote([,])dnl Add a Makefile.decls file to the root of your project, containing: QUIET_LT = @echo ' ' LIBTOOL $@; And include …
Rag And Bone,
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Usually, when writing bindings for a C library in a high level language, there’s a sweet spot where you have to leave the relative safety of an API similar to the library you are wrapping and the idiomatic correctness dictated by the language itself. For instance, in the PyClutter …
Kingdom of Spain,
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Clutter: Today I released the first developers snapshot of Clutter 0.6 - Clutter 0.5.0. The full announcement is on the Clutter blog, and since it’s very long, I won’t copy and paste it here. You can grab 0.5.0 here; as usual, this is a …
Paint the Silence,
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Weee, long time, no blog. Dear Lazyweb, is it at all possible to coerce the devilspawn also known as libtool to actually be quiet when compiling and printing something like the kernel compilation outpout - that is, something like: GEN autogenerated.c CC file1.c CC file2.c LINK output INSTALL …
Stinging Velvet,
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Clutter - If release 0.4 rocked hard, release 0.6 of Clutter will blow your mind away. Just to list some features landed in the past couple of weeks after ClutterScript got in: new event handling, borrowing from the W3C DOM event - that is, two event phases: capture, which traverses …
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day,
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People often arrive on the #clutter channel ((IRC: irc.gnome.org - join today!)) with troubles building Clutter from SVN: dependencies, installation in non-common prefixes, etc. Luckily, GNOME has Jhbuild, which is easy to set up ((the wiki page linked has it running in less than ten easy steps)) and also …
Porcelain,
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Today I committed to Clutter trunk ClutterScript, the initial support for defining the scenegraph using external files. You can think of it as the GtkBuilder equivalent for Clutter. During the 0.3 development cycle we considered using XML and JSON, and opted for the latter because while XML is quite …
When the Levee Breaks,
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Yesterday I decided to start working on the porting of the Gtk2::SourceView Perl module to the new upstream API. For my convenience, and because I know I’ll probably screw up, I decided to use a local git repository so I can experiment with all the branches I want …
My Wandering Days Are Over,
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This weekend I’ve finally tried Vala, something I wanted to do for a while now. Vala is, for those of you that never tried it, like GOB, but on PCP and steroids and with a syntax that doesn’t make using it feel like you’re being skull-raped through …