Tag Archives: Gnome

JHBuild Updates

4 June, 2006 – 10:53 pm

The progress on JHBuild has continued (although I haven’t done much in the last week or so). Frederic Peters of JhAutobuild fame now has a CVS account to maintain the client portion of that project in tree.
Perl Modules (#342638)
One of the other things that Frederic has been working on is support for building Perl […]

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JHBuild Improvements

1 May, 2006 – 2:39 am

I’ve been doing most JHBuild development in my bzr branch recently. If you have bzr 0.8rc1 installed, you can grab it here:
bzr branch http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/bzr/jhbuild/jhbuild.dev
I’ve been keeping a regular CVS import going at http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/bzr/jhbuild/jhbuild.cvs using Tailor, so changes people make to module sets in CVS make there way into the bzr branch. I’ve used […]

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intltool and po/LINGUAS

15 April, 2006 – 12:41 am

Rodney: my suggestions for intltool were not intended as an attack. I just don’t really see much benefit in intltool providing its own po/Makefile.in.in file.
The primary difference between the intltool po/Makefile.in.in and the version provided by gettext or glib is that it calls intltool-update rather than xgettext to update the PO template, so that […]

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Ekiga

10 April, 2006 – 10:30 pm

I’ve been testing out Ekiga recently, and so far the experience has been a bit hit and miss.

Firewall traversal has been unreliable. Some numbers (like the SIPPhone echo test) work great. In some cases, no traffic has gotten through (where both parties were behind Linux firewalls). In other cases, voice gets through […]

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Annoying Firefox Bug

3 April, 2006 – 5:38 am

Ran into an annoying Firefox bug after upgrading to Ubuntu Dapper. It seems to affect rendering of ligatures.
At this point, I am not sure if it is an Ubuntu specific bug. The current conditions I know of to trigger the bug are:

Firefox 1.5 (I am using the 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu10 package).
Pango rendering enabled (the default […]

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Re: Lazy loading

31 March, 2006 – 5:56 am

Emmanuel: if you are using a language like Python, you can let the language keep track of your state machine for something like that:

def load_items(treeview, liststore, items):
for obj in items:
liststore.append((obj.get_foo(),
[…]

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Gnome Logo on Slashdot

20 March, 2006 – 6:47 pm

Recently, Jeff brought up the issue of the use of the old Gnome logo on Slashdot. The reasoning being that since we decided to switch to the new logo as our mark back in 2002, it would be nice if they used that mark to represent stories about us.
Unfortunately this request was shot down […]

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Gnome-gpg 0.4.0 Released

2 March, 2006 – 4:08 am

I put out a new release of gnome-gpg containing the fixes I mentioned previously.
The internal changes are fairly extensive, but the user interface remains pretty much the same. The main differences are:

If you enter an incorrect passphrase, the password prompt will be displayed again, the same as when gpg is invoked normally.
If an incorrect […]

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Using Tailor to Convert a Gnome CVS Module

20 February, 2006 – 1:53 am

In my previous post, I mentioned using Tailor to import jhbuild into a Bazaar-NG branch. In case anyone else is interested in doing the same, here are the steps I used:
1. Install the tools
First create a working directory to perform the import, and set up tailor. I currently use the nightly snapshots of […]

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Revision Control Migration and History Corruption

16 February, 2006 – 7:04 am

As most people probably know, the Gnome project is planning a migration to Subversion. In contrast, I’ve decided to move development of jhbuild over to bzr. This decision is a bit easier for me than for other Gnome modules because:

No need to coordinate with GDP or GTP, since I maintain the docs and […]

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