Maintainership/2,
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I’ve just committed my development trunk of Dictionary on the CVS, as usual to new-dictionary branch. Features a navigation menu, with shortcuts for first/previous/next/last definitions a Ctrl+Shift+G shortcut for search backwards a “Save a Copy” menu item, used to save the content of the …
Maintainership,
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Vincent kindly asked me to join the maintainer team of gnome-utils, and I more than gladly accepted. In order to celebrate the event, here’s the latest screenshot of my development trunk for Dictionary: the new Dictionary As you can see, the current state is not far from the actual …
Documentation,
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In the last thirty minutes I’ve ported gnome-utils to the new, spiffy gnome-doc-utils system. I hope that this could hit HEAD in the next few days (pending Vincent‘s approval)- the sheer amount of stuff deleted and/or changed is really high. This would allow better translations of the …
Leaking/2,
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After some six hours, a chinese dinner, two large glasses of earl grey tea, and a coffee, I’m finally able to declare that, according to Valgrind, both the libegg/recent-files and libegg/recentchooser code are leak-free. Okay, take this with a grain of salt, as I’m not that …
Leaking,
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Yesterday, while I was at university waiting for a seminar about network security, I was on #gnome-it, and pbor asked me to look at a leak in EggRecentModel. I began wading through the code, but I didn’t found the leakage in time before having to leave. In the evening …
Dictionary Applet/8,
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I’ve finally been able to begin working on the new GNOME Dictionary widgets. While GdictEntry still has issues - related to the speed of word look up and the entry completion - and has already hit CVS, in the last two days I’ve been hacking on the definition display widget …
Long-standing,
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I’ve just committed some code that should hopefully fix bug #172587 of the old recent-files code. The bug was hard to track down - and for it I do own a beer to Sebastien Bacher: it appears that older versions of OpenOffice creeped unescaped & into the dot-recently-used file we use …
Friends,
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I’ve just donated to the GNOME Foundation. Not much (but since I got back to studying for this year, my revenue stream has really slowed down), but I plan to donate more money, aside from my time as a developer, to the F/OSS projects that I …
Dictionary Applet/7,
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New week, new adventures Actually, the number of new adventures has been strictly limited by my birthday first, and by a strange feeling of drowsiness that lasted all week (and still lasts as I’m writing this). Probably, it’s due to the fact that I’ve been sleeping like …
Birthday,
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0x19 years. Presents so far: Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton, from Marta (at midnight) money, from my parents and relatives (I love it) the new Back to the Future pack from my former high-school mates (we still see each other to hang out in week-ends): because …