Author Archives: desrt

i just returned from boston summit. boston summit is always scheduled on canadian thanksgiving which usually means that i can’t attend, but this year i bit the bullet.
i’m glad i did.
the three days of the conference were perhaps the three most productive days i have spent at any event. the entire attendence was [...]

“be excellent to each other”

it’s perhaps a bug in the ubuntu code of conduct that it does not include something that we can find elsewhere — in the KDE code of conduct.
i believe that “be excellent to each other” very much includes “assume that people mean well”.
i’m personally a bit tired of seeing people repeatedly publicly flogged for an [...]

maybe this saves you some time

if you want to install seed on your ubuntu jaunty system and you are looking for a version of webkit that is sufficiently recent to work with seed, is sufficiently old enough that it doesn’t require you to install a new libsoup and sufficiently unbroken enough to actually compile, then i have a number for [...]

#gnome-hackers

21:56 desrt: the yet another rewrite of Evo IMAP… more bugs for less features
21:56 * hub wonder why they didn’t use Tinymail instead
21:57 i’d like to take a moment to declare that i love pvanhoof
21:58 not for any particular piece of software that he has written; just ’cause.
21:58 desrt: I [...]

some nice gnio facts

here’s a post to go with my last post about gsettings.
there’s really only one nice fact to mention about gnio:
it’s in glib now. go get it. use it.
huge thanks are due, of course, to alex and danw for all the hard work and attention in tweaking the api and merging.

some nice gsettings facts

i haven’t written about gsettings in a while. i’ve been working on it a lot though. i will now write about a couple of nice things that gsettings will do for you.
many backends
you can have many backends for gsettings. dconf is merely one of them. the backends are local to the [...]

gnio

hello everyone
many of you know that i’ve been working on gnio for a little while. it is available from git://git.desrt.ca/gnio
gnio is a networking library built on the foundations of gio. it allows you to use network connections as input and output streams.
you need the gresolver branch of glib in order to use it. [...]

uds

currently on the plane on the way back home from uds. it’s been a pretty great week, but i’m glad to be getting home.
first thing: props to canonical. when i was checking out of the hotel the guy at the desk said something to the effect of “and canonical has everything covered”. [...]

as heard at uds

(talking about failed package installs)
mvo: “oh shit, it fucks!”
desrt: “is that the official term?”
mvo: “well, you know…”
mvo: “probably the dialog will say something different… but yes.”

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