Gtk+ 2.9.0 released,
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Finally, the first development release of GTK+ (codenamed The Magic Project Ridley aka libgnome sucks release by a developer whose name won’t be disclosed in this blog) has been finally sealed by Matthias Clasen yesterday, after battling with make distcheck. There is so much goodness in this release that …
London,
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Well, it’s been a full week since I moved to London, and everything is coming along quite nicely. The house is really cool, with a big bedroom and an even bigger dining room. It’s still missing some bits of furniture, like a dining table and its chairs, but …
Growing Family,
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I’ve just finished including baobab, the disk usage analysis tool written by Fabio Marzocca (and others), into gnome-utils HEAD. Everything seems to build fine, and make distcheck has just confirmed that gnome-utils-2.15.0 is ready to be released. I plan to give the final touches before the deadline …
Feeling yourself disintegrate,
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life: In the past 24 hours I’ve had: a bad cold a sore throat some lines of fever water spilled on my laptop’s keyboard thus, a broken Ctrl key that would not disengage itself and, finally, a broken Ctrl key that would not work anymore The last problem …
For the price of a cup of tea,
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Here’s a screenshot of testaction test showing the GtkRecentAction action for use with the GtkUIManager. The action is bound to a menuitem tag inside the UI definition markup. The code needs cleaning up and the hooking up of the GtkRecentChooser interface virtual methods, but it’s not a big …
ChangeLog,
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moving out: Marta has been in London a couple of times, in these two weeks; she has found a nice house in Crystal Palace, and began to buy furniture and stuff, and preparing it for us to move in. Next week, we’re both going to London and buy the …
EpS.O.B.,
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Davyd is absolutely right: steer away from any new-ish Epson printer you see, no matter how cheap they throw it at you. When I was living with my parents, I “inherited” an old StylusColor 760 - easily the best printer I’ve ever had under Linux. When I moved in with …
Lazy loading,
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Little post about a useful design pattern in GLib and GTK, written down after a question on the #gtk+ channel While I’m not Philip and I won’t go as far as talking about this in public, I wrote down a simple design pattern for lazy loading stuff from …
The API has landed,
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The GtkRecent code is finally in gtk+ HEAD branch. A couple of things are still missing, mostly documentation and examples (the exact list is here, if you want to check). The code needed a year to take shape (I was beginning to mull over it a bit too much), but …
Merger,
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Seems that I’m being syndacated… aggregated… whatever… on a Planet, so hi! I’m starting merging the GBookmarkFile parser into my local copy of GLib’s HEAD branch (the tracker bug is #327662). I’ve created a testb suite and a bunch of invalid and valid bookmark files, in …