Cody Russell

Office XP Screenshots

I just booted over to Windows 2000 to get a few screenshots of Office XP, so here they are:

1. Word XP opened anew
2. A shot showing the Office clipboard on the right side. This is a very cool enhancement over merely having a ‘paste’ option.
3. Here are some dropdown menus.
4. A shot showing some sort of language translation feature in Word XP.
5. This shows a quick shot of Outlook XP.
6. This is very, very cool.. customize your toolbars and menus.
7. A quick look at the contact manager was not impressive at all.

Some of these features we could probably do in Gnome. #6, the GUI customizer.. I think BonoboUI could do this. Erdi Gergo has been working on a Bonobo clipboard, so perhaps #2 isn’t that far off either.

GEGL

My GEGL just arrived from Denmark! Thanks muchly to Rebecca Walter for sending me this awesome little thing! Here is a picture she made of one of her GEGLs.. mine is slightly different, but it still gives you an idea of how cute it is.

Heifetz Institute 2001

Glori is up in Annapolis, MD for the Heifetz Institute this year, and I got some email from her today. Man, am I glad I am not there this year!! She said they’re not doing chamber music, which is not surprising considering Mr. Heifetz told me they weren’t. Somehow, I sort of thought he could be persuaded otherwise, but apparently not. That was the only thing I really liked about that place.. otherwise I really did not enjoy my time there a whole lot, and I think I’d hate it there this year.

Canvas hacking

I’ve added some new signals to GnomeCanvasItem today. It can now accept button_press/button_release/motion_notify. This is pretty useful. rconover has been doing some cool canvas hacking too.

gnome-hackers rap

Yo, werd!

Lack of clue
is not due
to me
it’s always you
Fix your broken code
before you send the system load
to the sky
yes that high

Implementation detail
without fail
doesn’t matter
Because, yo, my design
is so much phatter

Yo yo, peace and gnome-love out!

New pictures

I put some new pictures on grue today. They’re all pictures from The Institute for Strings that I was in a couple weeks ago. There are some pictures of my piano quintet.

Canvas hacking

I’ve been working on libgnomecanvas2 the past couple days. I converted the GnomeCanvasBpath to work with GTK 2.0, fixed GnomeCanvasText, and now I’m working on some really cool stuff for the text item. I am making it editable, and also selectable (in the sense of cut/copy/paste). I also want to hack on Lauris’s ClipPath code and get that working really well. The next big thing I’m really itching to work on is GnomeCanvas printing. I think I need to port gnome-print to GTK 2.0 first, but I’m willing to do that.

I want to talk to Miguel and Lauris about model/view separation and Display Lists for the canvas. I’m not sure how Display Lists would work in something like this.

Piano quintet

Well, my piano quintet is finished. We played our concert yesterday at the Meadows School at SMU and it went really well, I think. It was a lot of fun. I think Jonathan is going to email me some more pictures of the group and I’ll put them on my webpage when I get them.

Canoes suck

So, I went canoeing yesterday. It didn’t rock quite as hard as my recent diary entry said it probably would. The wind sucked, the river sucked, the canoe sucked. My shoulders are so sore!

ludwig.html

I want to throw together a little ludwig.html webpage on grue, so I began to. It’s accessible off my webpage. I got a really cool drawing of a Beethoven bust, drawn by Paul Hamlyn (who does illustrations for all sorts of magazines like The Observer, the New Yorker, The Telegraph, The London Times, New York Magazine, Esquire, GQ, and others..) It’s really cool looking. Thanks, Paul!

New picture on webpage

I added a picture of the Dvorak piano quintet rehearsal yesterday. Our pianist, Jonathan Tsay, took this with some sort of Olympus digital camera. I think it’s a pretty good picture.

Hackings

I started working a little last night on tools and mouse input for Ludwig van. The trick is that I want mouse clicks to be able to affect objects near the mouse pointer, but not necessarily under them. I figured out a pretty good algorithm for this, I think, I think, so I’m applying it now. Once an object is clicked on, the tool will be informed of it and it can do what it needs to do.