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 […]
The gnome-gpg utility makes PGP a bit nicer to use on Gnome with the following features:
Present a Gnome password entry dialog for passphrase entry.
Allow the user to store the passphrase in the session or permanent keyring, so it can be provided automatically next time.
Unfortunately there are a few usability issues:
The anonymous/authenticated user radio buttons are […]
Thomas: that behaviour looks like a bug. Are all of those volumes mountable by the user? The drive mount applet is only meant to show icons for the mount points the user can mount.
Note also that the applet is using the exact same information for the list of drives as Nautilus is. […]
In my previous article, I outlined the thought process behind the redesign of the drive mount applet. Although it ended up without any preferences, I don’t necessarily think that it doesn’t need any preferences.
A number of people commented on the last entry requesting a particular preference: the ability to hide certain drives in the […]
As most people know, there has been some flamewars accusing Gnome developers of removing options for the benefit of “idiot users”. I’ve definitely been responsible for removing preferences from some parts of the desktop in the past. Probably the most dramatic is the drive mount applet, which started off with a preferences dialog […]
Glynn: I suspect that the Pixmap memory usage has something to do with image rendering rather than applets in particular doing something stupid. Notice that most other GTK programs seem to be using similar amounts of pixmap memory.
To help test this hypothesis, I used the following Python program:
import gobject, gtk
win = gtk.Window()
win.set_title(’Test’)
win.connect(’destroy’, lambda w: […]
Joao: you can configure XScreenSaver to show a “Switch User” button in it’s password dialog (which calls gdmflexiserver when run). This lets you start a new X session after the screen has locked. This feature is turned on in Ubuntu if you want to try it out.
Of course, this is not a full […]
Picked up a DSB-R100 USB Radio tuner off EBay recently. I did this partly because I have better speakers on my computer than on the radio in that room, and partly because I wanted to play around with timed recordings.
Setting it up was trivial — the dsbr100 driver got loaded automatically, and a program […]
I finally got round to playing with the Google Maps API, and the results can be seen here. I took data from the GnomeWorldWide wiki page and merged in some information from the Planet Gnome FOAF file (which now includes the nicknames and hackergotchis).
The code is […]
I’ve got most of the features of my HTTP resource watching code I was working on for GWeather done. The main benefits over the existing gnome-vfs based code are:
Simpler API. Just connect to the updated signal on the resource object, and you get notified when the resource changes.
Supports gzip and deflate content encodings, […]
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