Spawn of hell,
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auto-tools: from the same people that brought you EMACS. After two hours of struggling with that damned make distcheck, in order to smoke test the merge of the new-dictionary branch of gnome-utils, I’ve finally been greeted by: =================================================== gnome-utils-2.13.4.tar.gz is ready for distribution =================================================== After a bit …
Dictionary Applet/11 and final,
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After two months, here’s to you: The New! And Improved! Dictionary Applet. Soon to hit gnome-utils HEAD on the repository mirrors near you! [hacking] [gnome] [gnome+dictionary]
Dictionary Applet/10,
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The merge of the new-dictionary branch into gnome-utils HEAD is fast approaching: I’ve set the deadline to the end of the week - in time to write off the last bits of the preferences dialog: the sources tab of the preferences dialog Right now, you can’t add or activate …
Dictionary Applet/9,
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I’ve added printing support - after a bit of struggle with GnomePrint: The output format is stolen^Winspired by Gedit, and the font is hardcoded as Serif, 12; I’ve already added a GConf key to the shipped schema - GConf integration, as well as preferences are still in a …
Maintainership/2,
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I’ve just committed my development trunk of Dictionary on the CVS, as usual to new-dictionary branch. Features a navigation menu, with shortcuts for first/previous/next/last definitions a Ctrl+Shift+G shortcut for search backwards a “Save a Copy” menu item, used to save the content of the …
Maintainership,
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Vincent kindly asked me to join the maintainer team of gnome-utils, and I more than gladly accepted. In order to celebrate the event, here’s the latest screenshot of my development trunk for Dictionary: the new Dictionary As you can see, the current state is not far from the actual …
Documentation,
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In the last thirty minutes I’ve ported gnome-utils to the new, spiffy gnome-doc-utils system. I hope that this could hit HEAD in the next few days (pending Vincent‘s approval)- the sheer amount of stuff deleted and/or changed is really high. This would allow better translations of the …
Leaking/2,
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After some six hours, a chinese dinner, two large glasses of earl grey tea, and a coffee, I’m finally able to declare that, according to Valgrind, both the libegg/recent-files and libegg/recentchooser code are leak-free. Okay, take this with a grain of salt, as I’m not that …
Leaking,
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Yesterday, while I was at university waiting for a seminar about network security, I was on #gnome-it, and pbor asked me to look at a leak in EggRecentModel. I began wading through the code, but I didn’t found the leakage in time before having to leave. In the evening …
Dictionary Applet/8,
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I’ve finally been able to begin working on the new GNOME Dictionary widgets. While GdictEntry still has issues - related to the speed of word look up and the entry completion - and has already hit CVS, in the last two days I’ve been hacking on the definition display widget …