http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:22:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en summit: my second GNOME Summit was a great experience. being a small, hack-oriented conference makes it possible to have a lot of work done — or discussed; I must thank everyone that helped organize it: it was great. I also have to thank Paul for letting me attend it even ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/10/14/remember-to-breathe/ since there are free slots here at GCDS I was wondering if somebody wanted to have a sit down and ask questions about Clutter; bugs and feature requests for 1.2 are also welcomed. just send me an email at: ebassi at gnome dot org. http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/07/08/clutter-qa/ so, GUADEC/GCDS is now halfway through, and it's been a pretty cool conference so far. obviously, lots of talks and loads of people to meet and to talk to. Rob did a roundup of the talks that the Intel/Moblin contingent has done and will do here. yesterday, like Josh and Rob ((also ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/07/06/a-year-of-clutter/ so, we're finally free to show what we've been doing for the past six months: it's been a great ride — and it's just getting started. we've been pushing Clutter forward and center of an entire platform user experience, and it was up to to the task to a degree that ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/05/19/the-wanting-comes-in-waves/ while I'm rebuilding my jhbuild setup in order to roll out gnome-utils 2.27.1 ((hopefully before the cut-off time for the 2.27.1 release)) I started pondering on a couple of questions: why are we still shipping the dictionary applet? and, more importantly: why are we still shipping a DICT protocol client? okay, I wrote ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/05/05/the-hazards-of-love/ today was Free Comic Book Day and Marta and I decided to go to a comic book store and get some new additions to the ever-growing collection we have at home. we opted for Gosh as we read a week ago that none others than Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/05/02/good-for-the-soul/ please, please stop the utter madness of not showing email addresses in the to: and cc: fields if they match an entry in the addressbook. I'm writing an email. therefore it is safe to assume I know what an email address is. you don't have to shield me from the existence ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/02/21/my-dear-evolution/ as usual — long time, no blog. my only excuse is that I was busy with other things: new job, new office, holidays... you know, whatever happens between coding. :-) it's that time of year again, and we're nearing another Clutter release — this time it's a special one, though, as it ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/02/20/dream-about-flying/ the third and final installment of the ongoing saga thanks to Damien, I finally found a way to shut up libtool and get a clean output for the build of a project: shave. Clutter is the first project using it, and I already easily caught compiler warnings ((even without using the anal-retentive ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2009/02/20/paint-the-silence3-gran-finale/ last night I could not sleep, so I decided to upgrade my old WordPress 2.0.11 (yes, you read that right — 2.0.11) installation to the New! And! Improved! hotness of WP 2.7. unfortunately, something went very wrong in the conversion process and all I got was a lousy 301 - ... http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2008/12/27/last-ride-in/