Save the world – waste less pixels
31. March 2009
Yesterday, I started to implement Murray‘s/Mathias‘ idea to add the ability in GTK+ to add a widget beside the tabs of a notebook. This makes of course only sense in application where only a few notebook pages are used usually and there is a lot of space left in the tab area. But of course it will also allow to add little combo boxes in this area like Mozilla Firefox, to give the user some additional features for the notebook navigation.
The basic code is now in place and it is less complicated then I expected. Anyway, there is still some stuff to do:
- Position of the widget (like GTK_PACK_START/END)
- whether the widget should take the whole space available (GTK_EXPAND)
The API is pretty simple up to now and only consists of gtk_notebook_set_tab_widget (). Patch coming soon to your nearby bugzilla.
Anjuta 2.26.0 released
20. March 2009
So, yeah, we relaesed another version some days ago. You may want to read the previous posts about the new features here. Most notibly in the final version was the addition of version control information to the file viewer. You can now see the status of your files using an emblem system like the famous TurtoiseSVN for Windows. It is actually meant to also work for git and we hope to get this done very soon in the next stable versions. There are some bugs preventing it at the moment. Otherwise everybody has done a great job and we significantly reduced the amount of bugs (from about 120 to 70, exluding enhancements)
As usual you can get the lastest version here: http://download.gnome.org/sources/anjuta/2.26
Another interesting thing for some people is probably a new alpha version of the vala plugin. It’s still a bit buggy and incomplete but I would invite some of the vala developers out there to try and improve it. It’s completely written in Vala so you can have some fun in this area!
Happy coding!
Filtering in gnome-system-log
6. March 2009
Since viewing log files can be some kind of annoying when you are only interested in a special problem I wrote a patch to filter/highlight specific sections of a logfile with gnome-system-log. A screenshot says more than thousand words:
Screenshot of gnome-system-log highlighting all gdm messages
The filters are based on regular expressions and should thus be quite flexible. The work was done (and paid) by Openismus Gmbh!