Newly built GLib & Gtk+ API docs are online now. In the process, i fixed a long standing documentation feature request: searchable API docs. This turned out to be the most requested documentation feature at the GNOME booth LinuxTag 2007.
The documentation updates cover Gtk+-2.11.4, so they contain new features like: GtkBuildable, GtkBuilder, [...]
I just got back online after a full week of DSL-outage due to the Deutsche Telekom Strike. If you are awaiting response via email or bugzilla from me, please be patient, I’m doing my best to catch up. Feel free to poke me about urgent issues via IRC/IM though, or drop me a reminder [...]
As announced by Hallski, Sven, Mitch and me went to LinuxTag 2007 and operated the Imendio and GNOME booths. As usual, Sven did a great job nurturing random users approaching the booth, together with Mathias Hasselmann and Michael Köchling. I put more focus on the amazingly large program of the conference, of which I’ll [...]
Gtk+ Patch Testing & Committing: Recently i was caught on IRC and asked to look into a few outstanding Gtk+ bug reports. Some of them easy, some of them not so easy, e.g. one required a lengthy in-depth evaluation of interacting code while some of the others already had patches applied. That particular [...]
The Gtk+ project finally gets a structured way to absorb voluntary efforts. Here is my proposal for a Volunteer Task List on gtk-devel-list. The task list is currently being constructed in the Gnome Wiki: GTK+ Volunteer Tasks.
In other news, there’s been some discussion on width-for-height and height-for-width management around Gtk+ recently. So [...]
The generation rules for the Rapicorn website are now finally in place:
-> rapicorn.org <-
This should help to clear up some of the motivations behind the Rapicorn project, in particular how it relates to Gtk+ and why it aims at implementing features that are to some extend already covered by Gtk+ [...]
I will quickly roll up some of the interesting bits that happened around Beast in the last couple of weeks. Stefan Westerfeld sat down and put up a collection of the various instruments and loops he is producing with Beast. Nicely described BSE files along with Ogg previews are available in his music [...]
The last Rapicorn snapshot had a couple build and compiler issues which could be fixed meanwhile, so here is the “real” 0.1.2 release: rapicorn-0.1.2.tar.gz It’s still a technology preview release with known issues, nevertheless useful to look at. The release NEWS:
Rapicorn 0.1.2: * added Image support for PNG images. [...]
One of the typical problems with implementing an allocator is that all sorts of memory failures in programs get attributed to the allocator. That’s because messing up heap memory somewhere in a program or library usually messes up the allocator state even if it is implemented correctly. For several months now, we have been [...]