Broken,
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The next release of gnome-utils, 2.13.90, will make libgdict adhere to the API/ABI freeze, even if it’s not part of the Gnome Developer Platform but only of the Desktop. The freeze had been in effect since the last release (January 18th), and I planned not to …
Snow,
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It’s been snowing since yesterday morning, here in Milan. Waking up with 20 cm of snow and watching it grow has some sort of hypnotical beauty, which vanishes as soon as you realize that: two of the major national airports (one of which is the italian major international hub …
Developement Trunk,
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Shamed by kris’ post about the state of Project Ridley stuff, I resumed the recent-files hacking after the gnome-utils/gnome-dictionary crazy run that occupied my nights in the last three months or so. RecentManager and RecentChooser I already did a review of the documentation and the code last month, but …
Release Craziness,
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Tonight it was release time - when GNOME tarballs were due in order to allow 48 hours of smoke testing before the actual release, on January 18th. I did the gnome-utils release, and decided to hang out a bit on #gnome-hackers - and I would have better had not to, since everything …
New release of gnome-utils,
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I’ve just rolled the 2.13.5 release of gnome-utils, code-named Optimized for Size. This release sports a ton of fixes for Dictionary, which now can remember its size and state across sessions; the usage (in the Search Tool and in Dictionary) of the new, spiffy, faster and lighter …
Glib::Builder,
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I’ve began working on a new build environment for Glib, Glib::Builder. Glib should use it, and provide it for Gtk2, Gnome2 and the other Perl bindings; well, hopefully, and when it’s finished, that is. It should also supercede not only ExtUtils::Depend but also Glib::MakeHelper and …
There And Back Again,
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Again at home, after a week in Berlin. The city is wonderful - now I understand why Marta loves it that much: the place is gorgeous, the people is warm and they really make you feel at home. Me and Marta were both a bit sad to leave - but we plan …
Leaving,
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packing again, me and Marta are leaving tomorrow for Berlin. we’ll get back in seven days, with a ton of photos.
shell,
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my request for a SSH account was granted. since Vincent is in the middle of a “continent” switch, he asked me to do the 2.13.4 release of gnome-utils, so here‘s to you gnome-utils 2.13.4 - “Ubiquitous X-ray”, the fourth unstable release of gnome-utils! try it, stress …
Upgrade,
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I’ve just upgraded my italian blog to WordPress 2.0, so I decided to upgrade context switch too. the upgrade procedure inside WP2.0 is serverly broken - or so, it seems on my web hosting, resulting in a lot of permission errors; at the end of the day …