Inkscape,
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On a IRC conversation, I was told that the Dictionary icon sucked. Thus, after having a look at the Tango Project and their beatiful icons, I fired up Inkscape and worked on another version of the icon: It still sucks, but now it sucks in 3D! I’ll file a …
Gnome2::GConf 1.021,
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The “An Address Indicates Where It Is” release. New release of the Perl bindings for GConf, in time for the incoming GNOME 2.13.4 release. This version sports a bindings for the Gnome2::GConf::Engine::get_for_addresses method of the Gnome2::GConf::Engine class; this method allows the creation of …
Maybe this Christmas,
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Only a few minutes into Christmas, and a few hours before the traditional lunch and dinner of this day. In the last four days I feel like I’ve already eaten more than I usually eat in a month. On Tuesday, me and Marta celebrated her birthday with some friends …
Fun with Cairo-perl,
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Just a little fun with the Cairo Perl bindings. The code is courtesy of the gtkmm tutorial, and can be found here. Update: since the original website went down, here’s the inlined version of the script: package Egg::ClockFace; use warnings; use strict; use Glib qw/TRUE FALSE/; use …
Sadism, Bestiality and Necrophily,
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Or “Flogging a Dead Horse for Fun and Profit” Spatial Nautilus. Again. Both Ubuntu Dapper and Novell Linux Desktop will ship with browser mode by default for Nautilus - now that browser mode got much love, enough to be usable. While both Ubuntu and Novell, as GNOME packagers, are entitled to …
Icon,
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I’ve just committed my development trunk of the BookmarkFile and RecentManager objects. The former now supports custom icons for every bookmark inside the file, using the icon element; the latter, finally, supports group names for every recently used item. I’m writing a small page for documenting how to …
Evolution,
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If this is ever going to happen, then I expect a Unix-based Windows release within the next two years.
Spawn of hell,
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auto-tools: from the same people that brought you EMACS. After two hours of struggling with that damned make distcheck, in order to smoke test the merge of the new-dictionary branch of gnome-utils, I’ve finally been greeted by: =================================================== gnome-utils-2.13.4.tar.gz is ready for distribution =================================================== After a bit …
Dictionary Applet/11 and final,
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After two months, here’s to you: The New! And Improved! Dictionary Applet. Soon to hit gnome-utils HEAD on the repository mirrors near you! [hacking] [gnome] [gnome+dictionary]
Dictionary Applet/10,
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The merge of the new-dictionary branch into gnome-utils HEAD is fast approaching: I’ve set the deadline to the end of the week - in time to write off the last bits of the preferences dialog: the sources tab of the preferences dialog Right now, you can’t add or activate …