Company Calls,
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Search support for the GtkFileChooser (#344785) landed in GTK+ trunk. It’s a patch written by Federico and updated by Matthias Clasen (I merely kept it in sync with trunk). The patch adds a private search engine abstraction object and three implementations, using libbeagle, libtracker and a simple file-tree-walking search …
Down on the corner,
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VFS: Lennart, what you want is GVFS, which is being developed right now by alexl, has dropped the POSIX abstraction approach and it’s surely more portable than FUSE. And, most of all, has a sane API (for a change). For “sane API” I mean that I almost cried tears …
Going Mobile,
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At the end of this week I’ll be in Copenhagen for the Nordic Perl Workshop. I’ll give two talks about GNOME and Perl: the first one is about binding GObject-based libraries in Perl and using the Perl bindings in order to write GObject-based native Perl modules (and get …
Get Innocous!,
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Lately, people have been trying Clutter, and reported bugs and misbehaviours. When asked what revision they were using, it turned out that they did a checkout from Clutter-core trunk. I made this point on the mailing list already, but I’ll just blog it so that it doesn’t get …
Falling Away With You,
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A couple of weeks ago I decided to give git a try, after this old post written by nud about using git-svn to create a bridge between a project stored under a SVN repository and a git repository. I’ve choosen Clutter mostly for these reasons: I wanted to create …
Time For Lovin’,
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You can see I’m listening to the Beastie Boys, right now In the last three days I’ve finally managed to resolve as fixed these GTK+ bugs: Bug 347375 – Not possible to set startup notification ID on a GtkWindow Bug 418219 – GtkRecentChooser should apply filter before sorting …
Shazam!,
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GNOME 2.18 is out! Go and check it out! Obviously, the release of GNOME 2.18 means that we can now start working on 2.20 - after a well deserved beer. ;-)
Of Angels And Angles,
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GtkApplication class: I’ve updated the application class page on the wiki. Now, it has an updated layout of the API (which is what I’m currently working on) and the design requirements it should fulfil. While writing it I had some sort of epiphany about the whole library consolidation …
Live Wire,
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Back from FOSDEM 2007, after a little detour in Helsinki. I’ve opened a bug for the places support in GtkFileChooser: #413076. Attached to it you’ll find a patch; it should be taken with a grain of salt: it’s still a work in progress, but implements the main …