Author Archives: desrt

blogging

i am at uds. jono is talking about blogging.

dconf lives!

development on dconf is going to be picking up again. there are two reasons for this:
1) i am done school!
2) i am now gainfully employed by codethink, courtesy of mr. rob taylor!
there are also some interesting side projects going on: gbus, for example.
i really enjoy this feeling that no matter how much gets done [...]

icanhasedit?

1 part federico + 1 part marnanel-musings + 1 part tango experiment + a couple of hours
= icanhasedit.py (very rough concept)
also in git at git.desrt.ca (git-clone git://git.desrt.ca/icanhasedit).
for best effect, set it as the default application for opening text files.
be warned: its saving is non-atomic.

call out to potential mentors for summer of code

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. [...]

it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

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 [...]

public notice

the following word should never be spelt with a capital letter:
desrt
k, thx :)

cookie to jdub

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…

dear lazyweb: please name DValue

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 [...]

gnome-screensaver vs. gnome-power-manager

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 [...]

murray jeff

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 [...]

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