Little Earthquakes,
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After two weeks without working on it, this evening I finally returned to GtkUnique and finished the bacon-like backend. Now, beside using D-Bus and Xlibs, you can use Un*x sockets as an IPC method to send a command to a running instance of an application which is using GtkUnique …
Love and Communication,
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For the Google Summer of Code, Vytas Liuolia wrote the (very much needed) guniqueapp library; just a small recap: libguniqueapp allows the creation of single instance applications, that is applications that gets instanced once and each subsequent instance just quits - or send a command to the currently running instance. Libguniqueapp …
Special Delivery,
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I almost forgot - this should tell you how bad a maintainer I am ;-) - but Lennart’s blog reminded me: the ringchart code hit Baobab HEAD: The ringchart view is really nice - even though I still very much like the treemap - but the real improvements are in Baobab’s user interface …
Mood to Burn Bridges,
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Whoa, really long time no blog. I can’t say I’ve been really busy with GNOME-related stuff: work mostly blocked me from doing much. After GNOME 2.16 I’ve released gnome-utils 2.16.1 containing a couple of fixes to Screenshot, and one of them was written …
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,
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Lately there has been some activity in projects moving from EggRecent to GtkRecent. Obviously, this led to questions and bugs opened about the API. One of the questions is: if I had a EggRecentModel singleton what should I use now?. Since EggRecent needed a EggRecentModel around for the entire lifetime …
Ride on a White Horse,
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Filed under the category: “useful programming tips for problems that bit my ass” The wise men from old said: Thou shalt not check if a directory or file existeth before creating it. Well, or something like that. I often see code that looks like this: if (!g_file_test (some_directory, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) { if …
Rainbows and Pots of Gold,
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Of docked windows, bugs and the Dictionary applet One of the two major UI issues for the new Dictionary was the absence of the speller. Since that has been somewhat fixed, even if it still lacks some polish, I decided to address the other, that is the fact that the …
Documentation,
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Davyd, the GTK+ Perl bindings come with documentation in the perldoc format (which works upon man); each object has its unique perldoc page, so if you need to know all the methods of the Gtk2::TreeView widget, all you have to do is open a terminal and type: $ perldoc Gtk2 …
Tides that I tried to swim against,
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gtk-recent: For those who missed the mail on gtk-devel-list, language-bindings and desktop-devel: Unfortunately, when importing the GtkRecent API in GTK+ I made a mistake and these two functions have been erroneously left inside the GtkRecentChooser interface API: gtk_recent_chooser_set_show_numbers() gtk_recent_chooser_get_show_numbers() These two functions try to set the “show-numbers” property, which is …
Shake Your Groove Thing,
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Still in Italy, for the next 48 hours at least The wedding went incredibly well: the ceremony itself was so short (twenty minutes) that I don’t remember much of it. We were married in a beautiful building in Milan, with frescoes made by Tiepolo, by a city hall official …