Category Archives: gnome-dictionary

Maintainership/2

Posted on December 8, 2005 by ebassi

I’ve just committed my development trunk of Dictionary on the CVS, as usual to new-dictionary branch. Features a navigation menu, with shortcuts for first/previous/next/last definitions a Ctrl+Shift+G shortcut for search backwards a “Save a Copy” menu item, used to save … Continue reading →

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Maintainership

Posted on December 7, 2005 by ebassi

Vincent kindly asked me to join the maintainer team of gnome-utils, and I more than gladly accepted. In order to celebrate the event, here’s the latest screenshot of my development trunk for Dictionary: the new Dictionary As you can see, … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/8

Posted on November 29, 2005 by ebassi

I’ve finally been able to begin working on the new GNOME Dictionary widgets. While GdictEntry still has issues – related to the speed of word look up and the entry completion – and has already hit CVS, in the last … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/7

Posted on November 24, 2005 by ebassi

New week, new adventures Actually, the number of new adventures has been strictly limited by my birthday first, and by a strange feeling of drowsiness that lasted all week (and still lasts as I’m writing this). Probably, it’s due to … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/6

Posted on November 21, 2005 by ebassi

The new GNOME Dictionary code has landed in CVS this morning! woot! I hope I didn’t fuck everything up – as usual when I’m dealing with CVS. viewcvs seems to be fine – and the tree seems to build. ATM, … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/5

Posted on November 20, 2005 by ebassi

Don’t you hate it when you arrive near deployment stage and you have to get back to the design table because someone makes you notice that the architecture you’ve very cleverly layed out has one fatal flaw? Well, to be … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/4

Posted on November 12, 2005 by ebassi

In order to let others know how’s the status of GNOME Dictionary Breaking is progressing (and in order to force myself working on it regularly ), I’m sending the Not So Weekly Status Report on GNOME Dictionary Containing the status … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/3

Posted on November 7, 2005 by ebassi

In case you’ve been wondering if I had disappeared or something… I’m in the middle of a session of exams, this week (four of them, to be precise), and I’ve had to cut down hacking time; nevertheless, I’ve been able … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/2

Posted on October 20, 2005 by ebassi

As I said on the gnome-utils mailing list, the GNOME Dictionary codebase sucks. Well, it sucks to the very end of it. It really shows its age (it’s more than 5 years old), and suffers of what I’m used to … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet

Posted on October 9, 2005 by ebassi

With almost everyone in Boston, both the mailing lists and IRC channels are really quiet; feels a little weird – but I think it’s mostly envy for not being able to go to the other side of the pond and … Continue reading →

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