Nacho's Blog

For the past few years we have got a lot of people asking us (the gedit team) why we did not provide a way to split a document and visualize it with several GtkTextViews. In this post I will point out the three problems that stop us from doing it.

• The cursor follows the insert mark from the TextBuffer.
• The selection is managed in relation to the insert mark and the selection-bound mark.
• The invisible tags are managed per document.

Maybe this is not as awesome as the post from jesse, but I think it is worth to tell about it. With the new addition in GTK+ for reporting the position of the parsing error in the CSS provider, we can now edit the file and check the errors when we save the file or when we reload the theme preview. By the way, this has been already released and it is packed for fedora 16.

I am pleased to announce version 2.90.3 of the Python bindings for GObject.

The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.90/

So these days I was a bit tired of documenting my final degree project and I started to work a little on gitg. For those who don’t know what is gitg, gitg is a git repository viewer for GNOME. I really love this project and I contributed some time before too.

This time I decided to provide the blame mode which in ready in my github. Here is the screenshot, I hope you will like it:

I am pleased to announce version 2.28.6 of the Python bindings for GObject.

The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.28/

I just wanted to say that after so much work is really good to see GNOME 3.0 something real, I am really proud for all the work made and I would like to thank everybody for this release.

Also I wanted to say that:

GeditOverlay is a new GtkContainer similar to GtkFixed but that only allows you to put the childs in specific positions, north-west/east, south-west/east etc. Apart from this, this container is based on the main-widget idea. Where all the requesitions and allocations are proxied from the main widget or relative widget attached.

The idea of this was in my summer of code when I decided to port the monodevelop’s animated popup to C. With the new solitudes that I had in the last weeks to make it animation-less we decided to improve it a little and create a GeditOverlay (without any animation) and GeditAnimatedOverlay that inherits from GeditOverlay and helps to provide animation specifics to the widgets implementing the GeditAnimatable interface.

To use this new widgets you can check it out from the gedit repository. The main classes are:

• GeditOverlay: main container
• GeditOverlayChild: this is the widget added to GeditOverlay. You will only want to create this widget if you want to animate it or make it themeable in some way. Usually you don’t have to care about it as GeditOverlay creates it for you if you are not passing one widget of this type.
• GeditAnimatedOverlay: container inheriting from GeditOverlay where you can add widget implementing GeditAnimatable
• GeditFloatingSlider: widget inheriting from GeditOverlayChild and implementing GeditAnimatable that provides a slide/in/out animation
• NautilusFloatingBar: (this one in the nautilus repository) which inherits from GeditOverlayChild and provides a themed floating widget and loading visualizations

Also say that currently there are already a few applications using this: gedit, epiphany and nautilus and we hope to get it included in gtk+ 3.2

I would also like to thank Xan and Cosimo for all the help provided on making this code more polished and fixing a lot of bugs.

Just inform that I invested the past two weeks porting gtranslator to the last new cool things around. So far is using GtkApplication, GSettings (already in the last release), libpeas, which means that you will able to have python plugins now, and all the new gtk+ 3 porting stuff needed to make it build. There are still some plugins that need to be ported to libpeas but it is not a blocking thing.

With this I want to call the translators to try either the git version or the last release using gtk+ 2 that already uses GSettings, and tell the impressions that they can have about it and of course fill some bugs. I know that the profile creation already sucks but it is something that you will do just once, so that’s why I didn’t get into do it more automagically.

Apart from this I have also been in Prague this past weekend and I managed to meet this great guys, probably you already know them, tomeu in the center and andre in the right. So as you can see in the photo we were working hardly that day 😛 Thank you guys for the chatting and the beers by the way 🙂

Hey folks, as a new experience in my life I’ll be in Poland doing the Erasmus the whole year, so if anybody from there wants to have a beer, coffee or something please let me know. I’ll be mainly in Bielsko-biala but probably I’ll visit quite frecuently Krakow.

In relation to the hack I’ve been doing this week before arriving to Poland, just tell that gtranslator is now ported to GSettings and that gedit has now the new search dialog in master. So please test it and report bugs 🙂