John Saw That Number,
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Thanks to Ross and his mad python-fu skillz, now we have a working Python binding for gtkunique - for the brave souls which may want to use it. The repositories locations have been changed, after the servers update at OpenedHand, so here’s where the fun is: trunk: bzr branch http …
The Engine Driver,
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Here we are again with the Dictionary hacking; I left my development trunk with barely enough time to close crashers and brown paper bags patchs, and now I’m finally able to return working on it. Here’s an interesting bug, about the poor discoverability of the look up process …
See You When You’re Fourty,
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Well, it seems I’m not a 0xteenager anymore. For the hexadecimal-impaired, today I’m 26 years old. Four more years to go before submitting an entry to the GNOME Ol’ Farts Club.
Twist The Knife,
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Dear LazyWeb: I’m trying to clean up the python bindings for the next release of a GObject-based library, so I’m using pygtk and its codegen magic; unfortunately, being codegen.py an incredibly bad program, I can’t see why or how it’s failing to read the .defs …
Song for Sunshine,
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I just made two releases for gnome-utils: the first is 2.16.2, another release in the stable branch, which fixes a couple of bugs in Baobab and Screenshot that were also fixed in HEAD and deemed important enough to be backported. The second release is - finally - 2.17.0 …
Little Earthquakes,
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After two weeks without working on it, this evening I finally returned to GtkUnique and finished the bacon-like backend. Now, beside using D-Bus and Xlibs, you can use Un*x sockets as an IPC method to send a command to a running instance of an application which is using GtkUnique …
Love and Communication,
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For the Google Summer of Code, Vytas Liuolia wrote the (very much needed) guniqueapp library; just a small recap: libguniqueapp allows the creation of single instance applications, that is applications that gets instanced once and each subsequent instance just quits - or send a command to the currently running instance. Libguniqueapp …
Special Delivery,
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I almost forgot - this should tell you how bad a maintainer I am ;-) - but Lennart’s blog reminded me: the ringchart code hit Baobab HEAD: The ringchart view is really nice - even though I still very much like the treemap - but the real improvements are in Baobab’s user interface …
Mood to Burn Bridges,
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Whoa, really long time no blog. I can’t say I’ve been really busy with GNOME-related stuff: work mostly blocked me from doing much. After GNOME 2.16 I’ve released gnome-utils 2.16.1 containing a couple of fixes to Screenshot, and one of them was written …
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,
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Lately there has been some activity in projects moving from EggRecent to GtkRecent. Obviously, this led to questions and bugs opened about the API. One of the questions is: if I had a EggRecentModel singleton what should I use now?. Since EggRecent needed a EggRecentModel around for the entire lifetime …