Comments for Filippo Argiolas

Comment on Dear lazyweb by fargiolas

fargiolas — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:45:53 +0000

set_size_request sets a minimum size for the drawing area.
gtk_widget_size_request gets the toplevel size computed summing all minimum sizes of its children widgets. Then set_default_size sets the initial size of the toplevel window to the one it would have with the current size constraints and set_size_request (area, -1, -1) removes those size limits. This way you get an initial drawing area of the wanted size but no scaling down restriction.

Comment on Dear lazyweb by Anders

Anders — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:48:16 +0000

Would somebody care to explain in more detail how the solution from Owen works?

Comment on Dear lazyweb by fargiolas

fargiolas — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:08:17 +0000

@Tristan: sure that’s what I do now, but there was no way (that I knew of) to compute the right default size of the toplevel to get the drawing area of the size I wanted.

@Owen: oh that’s handy! it works like a charm, thank you !

Comment on Dear lazyweb by Tristan

Tristan — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:31:46 +0000

Add your drawing area to a box or table, and
setup your packing properties (expand/fill = TRUE).

Then your drawing area will always fill the allocated
space of the parent, at the toplevel window you can
specify a default size.

Comment on Dear lazyweb by Owen Taylor

Owen Taylor — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:56:47 +0000

One trick that can be handy:

– Set the size request (minimum size) to the desired size
– Call gtk_widget_size_request() on the toplevel to find out the minimum size for the toplevel with that size widget
– Set that as the default size of the toplevel (gtk_window_set_default_size())
– Set the size request of the widget back to -1, -1

Comment on Final SoC Report – screencasts, screencasts.. screencasts! by berlin

berlin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:56:41 +0000

Gut!

Comment on HP Support: FAIL by Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:21:35 +0000

I hate that.. I’ve had no problem with my HP laptop.. but I did have customer service issues with my mega expensive Alienware. Purchased because it was supposed to be higher quality and extraordinarily fast! And it was, for about 6 months. I figured Eh, no biggie, that’s why I bought the extended ***ON-SITE*** warranty..

Needless to say, 1 year later.. YES 1 YEAR, i finally threw the POS away. They claimed their on-site warranty didn’t cover diagnosis and they couldn’t narrow down the over heating to the CPU or the GPU.. so, for the year, they ran me through red tape, unbelievable frustration, until the point I had had enough and finally purchased an HP for a 10th the cost. It has worked longer and more reliably then my Alienware ever did!

A year after that, they sent me a special offer for their -valued- customers.. I wrote back and told them they had some nerve after the BS the put me through and repeated the entire story..

Needless to say, I still wasn’t valued.. they responded, not even with an apology, let alone anything for my troubles, but instead an explanation that the email was automated without any research..

to anyone thinking of alienware.. RUN AWAY! I decided I’d buy cheap from now on, with the understanding that I’d probably just end up replacing it annually.. if I’d stuck with that plan, I’d have bought 2-3 laptops since then and still wouldn’t have paid as much as I did for the one Alienware. Fortunately, I haven’t had to buy another.. I runs gnome/linux swimingly!

I should take alberts advice and talk to the BBB. I threatened alienware with that, but was so frustrated by that point, I never followed through.. probably too late now. (I litterally threw it away)

Comment on HP Support: FAIL by Albert

Albert — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:54:09 +0000

I had the same kind of experience with them. My problem was that the laptop was losing the connection with the hardrive, the system seemed to work for a time because of the ram but when I was rebooting the BIOS was telling me that no hard drive was installed. The first time I send the latptop to HP they saw Grub and linux so they format the laptop and re-install Windows… and so you can imagine that I lost my data but my backup… The second time I remove myself linux and I put in background the image of the bios with the “no hard drive detected” same things. After a year to fight with them they proposed me to re-imburse me but with the value of my pc decrease by the time I was “using it” so basically I was losing 2/3 of my money. By chance I was living in US and so I contact the better business bureau (BBB) an organisation to help you for this kind of problem and they did a good job. I have been reimburse 80% (not perfect but better than 30%…) and I will NEVER buy another HP laptop, never. They are just incompetent.

Comment on Final SoC Report – screencasts, screencasts.. screencasts! by .fosk.

.fosk. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:05:12 +0000

Awesome work!!
I hope to see it on Cheese as soon as posible!
Thank you very much!

Comment on Final SoC Report – screencasts, screencasts.. screencasts! by cap

cap — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:35:59 +0000

Excellent !
Note that having framebuffer_extension is now optional since yesterday.
But you still need it to use glfilters (glfiltercube, gleffects, …)