Time is Running Out,
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Today I committed a couple of fixes to GtkRecentManager and I thought it was worth mentioning them on pgo. Up until now, GtkRecentManager instances were available either via the gtk_recent_manager_new() constructor - which left the memory management duties to the developer - or via the gtk_recent_manager_get_default() which tried to do the right …
Back in Black,
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Dear ATi, if you’re not even able to make decent drivers for your own (admittedly crappy) graphic hardware, please have the decency to fail and go out of business as you rightfully deserve. No love, Emmanuele.
Expect,
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Well, it seems that after six years a new release of Emacs is out - and it uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit. I’d like to think that what took so long was not adding this thing to the file selection dialog: Otherwise, I might expect something like this for …
Company Calls Epilogue,
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Today I gave the final touches to a patch based upon the patch for search capabilities in the GtkFileChooser embeddable widget, adding the “Recently Used” shortcut: there are still a few missing bits (the icon for the shortcut is one of them) but it’s already working remarkably well. I …
Company Calls,
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Search support for the GtkFileChooser (#344785) landed in GTK+ trunk. It’s a patch written by Federico and updated by Matthias Clasen (I merely kept it in sync with trunk). The patch adds a private search engine abstraction object and three implementations, using libbeagle, libtracker and a simple file-tree-walking search …
Down on the corner,
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VFS: Lennart, what you want is GVFS, which is being developed right now by alexl, has dropped the POSIX abstraction approach and it’s surely more portable than FUSE. And, most of all, has a sane API (for a change). For “sane API” I mean that I almost cried tears …
Going Mobile,
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At the end of this week I’ll be in Copenhagen for the Nordic Perl Workshop. I’ll give two talks about GNOME and Perl: the first one is about binding GObject-based libraries in Perl and using the Perl bindings in order to write GObject-based native Perl modules (and get …
Get Innocous!,
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Lately, people have been trying Clutter, and reported bugs and misbehaviours. When asked what revision they were using, it turned out that they did a checkout from Clutter-core trunk. I made this point on the mailing list already, but I’ll just blog it so that it doesn’t get …
Falling Away With You,
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A couple of weeks ago I decided to give git a try, after this old post written by nud about using git-svn to create a bridge between a project stored under a SVN repository and a git repository. I’ve choosen Clutter mostly for these reasons: I wanted to create …