GUADEC/Back,
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I’m back to London after the really amazing days in Vilanova. This year’s GUADEC has been really amazing: lots of interesting talks and great people to meet; there definitely was a great energy in the air. Kudos to everyone involved in the creation and management of this great …
GUADEC/Request,
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If there are any liferea developers at GUADEC, I’d like to have a few words about the key bindings used in your application - specifically why did you choose Ctrl+N for “go to new item” and why Ctrl+W doesn’t close the window. Please, don’t let me …
GUADEC/Day 1,
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The OH Gang arrived yesterday at GUADEC - just in time for my talk. I think that the tutorial went well - Clutter worked out of the box on the VGA port, which was quite a surprise. About Clutter: it was fun to see Jeff use it for his presenytation too. I …
Clutter,
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Behold the power of Clutter! Clutter is a pretty raw user interface toolkit for building heavily visually applications for platforms such as media boxes and kiosks. It’s built on various GNOME libraries such as Pango and GObject, uses Gstreamer for media playback, and all this sits upon OpenGL for …
A Sort of Homecoming,
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Sci-fi - I’ve ordered on Play.com the DVD box of the first (and last) season of Firefly and I think it really was a great show, where Joss Whedon really tried to follow the path of Isaac Asimov, and show that sci-fi it’s not a genre but a …
Tap Dancing on a Mine,
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I’ve just released version 1.031 of the Gnome2::GConf Perl module binding libgconf. In this release, thanks to Laurent Simonneau, I dropped the Gtk2 dependency, making Gnome2::GConf depend only on the Glib Perl module (and the libgconf C library, obviously). Gnome2::GConf is mostly in maintenance mode …
Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect,
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Today I finally did find time to work on gnome-utils. I applied a whole slew of patches that sit in my development trunk for almost a couple of months now, and that I tested locally. The first thing that went is is the speller widget for Dictionary; it’s still …
How Good It Can Be,
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Corey, why on earth should we switch from an entire set of system configuration tools written in Perl to another one written in Python? Just for the sake of Python? Just because there are more Python zealots^Whackers on GNOME than there are Perl ones? I understand that Ubuntu …
Precious,
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Saturday, Marta and myself finally went to choose the wedding rings. We asked to get engraved, after our names, the date of the wedding in a format of our choice, and we gave to the puzzled guy a note with this number on it: 1152265200. Now listening: Depeche Mode, Playing …