Stinging Velvet,
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Clutter - If release 0.4 rocked hard, release 0.6 of Clutter will blow your mind away. Just to list some features landed in the past couple of weeks after ClutterScript got in: new event handling, borrowing from the W3C DOM event - that is, two event phases: capture, which traverses …
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day,
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People often arrive on the #clutter channel ((IRC: irc.gnome.org - join today!)) with troubles building Clutter from SVN: dependencies, installation in non-common prefixes, etc. Luckily, GNOME has Jhbuild, which is easy to set up ((the wiki page linked has it running in less than ten easy steps)) and also …
Porcelain,
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Today I committed to Clutter trunk ClutterScript, the initial support for defining the scenegraph using external files. You can think of it as the GtkBuilder equivalent for Clutter. During the 0.3 development cycle we considered using XML and JSON, and opted for the latter because while XML is quite …
When the Levee Breaks,
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Yesterday I decided to start working on the porting of the Gtk2::SourceView Perl module to the new upstream API. For my convenience, and because I know I’ll probably screw up, I decided to use a local git repository so I can experiment with all the branches I want …
My Wandering Days Are Over,
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This weekend I’ve finally tried Vala, something I wanted to do for a while now. Vala is, for those of you that never tried it, like GOB, but on PCP and steroids and with a syntax that doesn’t make using it feel like you’re being skull-raped through …
Small Print,
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Could someone please tell me why notification-daemon holds ~51000 windows after two days of uptime? 51700 windows? Really? Now, I accept the idea that maybe xrestop is lying (and mallum on my back is ready to hit me) but this sounds like a huge leak somewhere. Please, someone tell me …
Flying Teapot,
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Clutter 0.4.0 was, finally, released two days ago. Not only the core and add-on libraries but also the language bindings are available for this new stable release cycle. We already started working on trunk for the 0.5/0.6 development cycle, which should hopefully lead up to …
GUADEC/recap,
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This year’s GUADEC has been really great - it seemed hard to top last year’s but paul, thos, robster and the rest of the GUADEC team really rocked hard to make everything work at its best. Kudos to all of them. Unfortunately, my GUADEC was cut short on Wednesday …
Take it or leave it,
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After the comments on my latest blog post, I got back at Unique and did some rearrangements in the code base. Now the backends are all compiled in (obviously, depending on whether you have the dependencies to compile them) and the backend to be used can be defined at runtime …
Strange news from another star,
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I’ve been promising a release of GtkUnique for a while now, but work and other stuff got in the way of the namespace change-slash-rewrite. Yesterday I finally got around finishing the porting of the Unix domain sockets backend (or “bacon”) so I cooked up a preliminary release with …