the summer of code student application period is scheduled to open on march 24th and remain open until the 31st. at this time we will begin receiving applications from students interested in participating in summer of code with gnome.
after the application period closes, a small selection committee will decide which applications are accepted. […]
January 16, 2008 – 8:38 pm
the hardy alpha 3 livecd has this strange compiz bug.
if the window decorator starts up before the gnome settings daemon then the decorator uses the default gtk selection colour (a deep blue). the bug is that when the settings daemon gets itself going the buttons on the window titlebar change colour but the titlebar […]
January 4, 2008 – 4:38 am
the following word should never be spelt with a capital letter:
desrt
k, thx :)
January 2, 2008 – 5:17 am
a name i was thinking about a long time ago and jeff reminded me of
i present to the world:
GVariant
if anyone has anything negative to say about this name, now would be a good time…
December 31, 2007 – 6:38 am
DValue is the datatype at the foundation of dconf and of the glib-based dbus bindings that rob and ori are theoretically working on. it will end up being part of libglib (probably for the release before next guadec).
it is named DValue because it used to be named DConfValue.
you can read a little bit about […]
December 30, 2007 – 10:47 pm
today on #gnome-hackers i was musing to richard about how i think that the current g-p-m/g-s-s setup is very confusing. i’ve thought about this for a while and today i did an AsciiBuilder mockup of what i think the interface should be. he was interested enough to ask me to blog about it […]
November 26, 2007 – 8:19 pm
la la la another one of these… time to pile on!
murray: please don’t “retract your post” as some are calling on you to do. this is such a ridiculous concept. you said what you said because it’s exactly what you meant to say. publishing a retraction won’t change that.
clearly some people […]
November 24, 2007 – 8:58 pm
a few days ago i woke up in the morning and i checked my mail. i replied to a mail and evolution told me:
Recipient address rejected: Policy Rejection- You have exceeded the maximum(350) number of messages or recipients per hour. Please call Mountain Cablevision Technical Support: 905.389.1393. Thank you.
i instantly panic as i […]
October 1, 2007 – 4:24 am
most gnome hackers are probably accustomed to the fact that they can pass a null pointer as a value to glibc’s “%s” conversion character and get the string “(null)” output instead of a crash.
take for example, this program:
#include <stdio.h>
int
main (void)
{
printf (”%s”, NULL);
return 0;
}
this will output “(null)”. nice. i like […]