Paint the Silence/3: Gran Finale,
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the third and final installment of the ongoing saga thanks to Damien, I finally found a way to shut up libtool and get a clean output for the build of a project: shave. Clutter is the first project using it, and I already easily caught compiler warnings ((even without using …
Last Ride In,
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last night I could not sleep, so I decided to upgrade my old WordPress 2.0.11 (yes, you read that right — 2.0.11) installation to the New! And! Improved! hotness of WP 2.7. unfortunately, something went very wrong in the conversion process and all I got was …
All the Old Showstoppers,
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okay, new rule ((apologies to Bill Maher)): it’s okay to install a GObject property like this: pspec = g_param_spec_string ("title", "Title", "The title of the item", NULL, G_PARAM_READWRITE); g_object_class_install_property (gobject_class, PROP_TITLE, pspec); instead of the usual way you see in other GObject-based libraries, where we l33t h4x0rs dispense from the …
In the Mood,
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well, I failed at blagging each day of the User Experience hackfest, but mostly because of the sheer amount of discussions, designs and work done. during the first common session on monday we all decided to split off into four groups: file management window and application management widgets/gadgets/applets …
Flying Teapot,
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final checks and the usual ohmygodwhycan’tIfindanything mode before I take the flight to Boston for the User Experience hackfest organized by Owen, Federico and Vincent. Neil and I will be talking about Clutter, what it does, and what it can do to enhance the user experience on a modern …
Stuck with me,
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guadec 2008: I’m late, but I wanted to thank everyone in the GUADEC team for making this edition of the conference really rocking. thanks to everyone. clutter: well, after the 0.8.0 release during GUADEC things have slowed down — but just a little bit; we’re fixing bugs …
When the World Ends,
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I’m delaying my sleep time further on, after two hours on IRC discussing the gtk+ 3.x issues spawned by Miguel’s blog post, because there are a few points I’d like to make. discussion: the first, and foremost, is: let’s not use blogs to discuss. blogs …
Something on my back,
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dear, all-knowing and all-powerful lazyweb; what’s the reason why python segfaults ((yes, python segfaults — and it does inside pygobject)) with this error message: TypeError: Cannot create a consistent method resolution order (MRO) for bases Container, Scriptable when I’m trying to instantiate a python class inheriting from a C …
Odalisque/2,
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so, it turns out that the plans of releasing Clutter 0.8 right after GUADEC were a little bit on the conservative side, since Clutter 0.8.0 has been released thanks to all the contributors for bugs opened, patches written, tests performed — you all rock my world. now you …
Odalisque,
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this GUADEC has been quite a ride, and we’re just halfway through. gtk+: the gtk+ team meeting on tuesday went really well — and part of the discussion was incorporated in Kris always excellent State of the union talk. the team went over and over this issue since last GUADEC …