Monthly Archives: November 2006

The Engine Driver

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Here we are again with the Dictionary hacking; I left my development trunk with barely enough time to close crashers and brown paper bags patchs, and now I’m finally able to return working on it. Here’s an interesting bug, about … Continue reading →

Posted in gnome-dictionary, gnome-utils, Hacking | 10 Comments

See You When You’re Fourty

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Well, it seems I’m not a 0xteenager anymore. For the hexadecimal-impaired, today I’m 26 years old. Four more years to go before submitting an entry to the GNOME Ol’ Farts Club.

Posted in celebrations, personal, stuff | 5 Comments

Twist The Knife

Posted on November 18, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Dear LazyWeb: I’m trying to clean up the python bindings for the next release of a GObject-based library, so I’m using pygtk and its codegen magic; unfortunately, being codegen.py an incredibly bad program, I can’t see why or how it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in clutter, open-source, Python, rants | 1 Comment

Song for Sunshine

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I just made two releases for gnome-utils: the first is 2.16.2, another release in the stable branch, which fixes a couple of bugs in Baobab and Screenshot that were also fixed in HEAD and deemed important enough to be backported. … Continue reading →

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Little Earthquakes

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

After two weeks without working on it, this evening I finally returned to GtkUnique and finished the bacon-like backend. Now, beside using D-Bus and Xlibs, you can use Un*x sockets as an IPC method to send a command to a … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, C, GNOME, Hacking, open-source | 8 Comments