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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008My Christmas present: Notifications for Epiphany downloads
Monday, December 24th, 2007After some work, my patch for gnome bug #311209 was accepted by Christian. So now your download dialog will sport some bling!.
The notification will popup when you start downloading something while the download dialog is hidden (not minimized, but hidden). To hide it, just click the status icon. Watch for yourself:
(click to skip wp’s ugly forced scaling).
Also , gnome bug #327734 has just been half fixed, meaning that you can now cancel more than one download at a time.
Merry Christmas!
End of elections and some other things
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Election is over!. It was quite an interesting ride to be a candidate, I got 52 votes which tells me that there are 52 foundation members crazy enough to trust me… you should go check your heads my friends.
Seriously, thanks to everyone who voted for me and encouraged me during the process. I feel happy to have received trust from 1/3 of the voters
And of course, good luck to the new Board members! you can count with my help.
Some hacking
Later today, after the electoral booze ran out, I scratched my own itch and filled gnome bug #503173. I run gnome-system-monitor by mistake everyday because I click on it by accident when trying to switch to other workspaces. Patch attached if you want to be able to turn that off!.
Also, days ago I attached some patches for adding some bling to Epiphany’s download manager : gnome bug #327734 and gnome bug #311209. One for adding notifications to new downloads when the window is hidden and one for being able to cancel more than one download at a time.
Technology that you can only dream of.
Earlier this cycle, I did a quick patch for adding previews for the file chooser, no more nautilus+epiphany when uploading images. Another self-scratching.
I hope to be able to get some more stuff done for 2.22, I suddenly feel hacky again 
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Events and kung-fu-rences
We are on the final days before DíaDebian2007, Rudy created a Facebook event but nobody has cared to join it… doesn’t surprise me, it’s not like people here care about Facebook. By the way, I can’t say how much the lack of default privacy of Facebook scares the midochlorians out of me.
The event will be at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería this Saturday, from 3pm to 7pm (that’s 8pm to 2am UTC), you can check the schedule. It’s gonna kick ass.
Tomorrow or after-tomorrow we’ll go to our local underground provider to make some pins for giving away this Saturday.
I hope to take a good ammount of pictures, wish us luck.
One and a half year ago…
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007I joined the most incredible free software project out there. Thanks to that shy email to Glynn Foster and the less-shy question avalanche to Lucas Rocha. Lots of people have helped me among all the this -short- time contributing to GNOME. I can’t name them all without forgetting names so I prefer to avoid name lists.
I’m amazed of how in this short time I have came to know a lot of cool people and friends, people that live in the other side of the world, people that live on my neighbour countries. It has been a really great experience, and I’m sure I’m not gonna regret having spend my time meeting and working with such fantastic people.
Remembering all this makes me home^WGUADEC-sick, I can’t wait to see you all next year!. That also reminds me that some days ago, after watching Harry Potter I thought: “hah, GUADEC is like my Hogwarts” LOL.
Thanks to all that people that has helped me answering my questions, smacking me in the head, reviewing my patches, carrying me out of the pitch like a bag of potatoes, etc. I really owe it all to you guys!.
