colors: The GTK+ team closed #114355 recently. This is pretty good stuff, as it lets us set the colors of themes independent of the theme itself. It’s been needed for a really long time, and they did a good job of it. Some details: (expressions): Whenever you need to specify a color in a GTK+ [...]
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Sun 27 Nov 2005
November 27, 2005 – 12:42 am
words: I don’t know the name of the process for turning the middle letters of a word into numbers (such as i18n and a11y), but Elijah should win a medal for proposing a1t (art).
Sun 06 Nov 2005
November 6, 2005 – 5:23 pm
vote: As a reminder, there’s very little time left to vote. I voted No. Board size is being blamed for a lot of things, none of which are solved by cutting down on manpower. It’s not going to affect things one way or another, other than make the board less diverse. 770: My Nokia 770 [...]
Wed 19 Oct 2005
October 19, 2005 – 11:48 am
lexicon: I coined a new word this weekend. ‘edurati.’ You heard it here first, folks.
Mon 26 Sep 2005
September 26, 2005 – 12:58 am
changes: After using gnus for five years, I finally made the switch to evolution. I’m liking it a lot so far. My biggest complaint so far is the lack of a ‘Junk Mail’ keybinding. commercials: Who’s behind that Burger King mask?? My best guess: Terry Bradshaw.
Thu 08 Sep 2005
September 8, 2005 – 4:14 am
evince: GNOME-2.12 went out the door today with the new evince release. Version 0.4.0 is the culmination of a lot of hard work by the entire evince team. By blending a mixture of features and simplicity, we have reached a state of genuine usefulness. We are still very ambitious; there are a lot of awesome [...]
Wed 31 Aug 2005
August 31, 2005 – 9:04 pm
evince: Bryan and I took another look at acroread today, and realized that we’re falling behind them in the web advertisement space! They have an toolbar just for Yahoo ads, and we don’t have anything like that at all. Since we had been looking for fundraiser opportunities anyway for the Evince Defence League, I whipped [...]
Mon 29 Aug 2005
August 29, 2005 – 1:43 am
ridley: I finally got Project Ridley announced. This has been overdue for a long time, and I hope that we’ll get some good contributors to this project. I’ve gotten a number of replies from people interested in helping out, and there’s plenty to be done. There were a number of FAQs and some confusion about [...]
Tue 23 Aug 2005
August 23, 2005 – 3:22 am
sleep: While trying to get a better idea on which operations poppler is slow, I wrote a little tool to profile pages. I really should have gone to sleep, instead. http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/Screenshot-PDF%20Inspector-1.png
Sat 06 Aug 2005
August 6, 2005 – 1:31 am
windmills: Today was a windmill-tilting kinda day… evince: Kristian and I cleaned up the selection code this week. It’s still a bit raw, but it’s much, much smarter than before. It was naively drawing the whole selection every time the mouse moved, which felt sluggish. We now only redraw the regions that are changed, and [...]