Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Rag And Bone

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

Usually, when writing bindings for a C library in a high level language, there’s a sweet spot where you have to leave the relative safety of an API similar to the library you are wrapping and the idiomatic correctness dictated … Continue reading →

Posted in Hacking, Python | 6 Comments

Kingdom of Spain

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

Clutter: Today I released the first developers snapshot of Clutter 0.6 – Clutter 0.5.0. The full announcement is on the Clutter blog, and since it’s very long, I won’t copy and paste it here. You can grab 0.5.0 here; as … Continue reading →

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Paint the Silence

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Weee, long time, no blog. Dear Lazyweb, is it at all possible to coerce the devilspawn also known as libtool to actually be quiet when compiling and printing something like the kernel compilation outpout – that is, something like: GEN … Continue reading →

Posted in developer, Hacking, lazyweb | 11 Comments

Stinging Velvet

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Clutter – If release 0.4 rocked hard, release 0.6 of Clutter will blow your mind away. Just to list some features landed in the past couple of weeks after ClutterScript got in: new event handling, borrowing from the W3C DOM … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, C, clutter, GNOME, Hacking | 6 Comments

Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

People often arrive on the #clutter channel1 with troubles building Clutter from SVN: dependencies, installation in non-common prefixes, etc. Luckily, GNOME has Jhbuild, which is easy to set up2 and also allows custom modulesets for handling dependencies inside a separate … Continue reading →

Posted in clutter, developer | 3 Comments

Porcelain

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Today I committed to Clutter trunk ClutterScript, the initial support for defining the scenegraph using external files. You can think of it as the GtkBuilder equivalent for Clutter. During the 0.3 development cycle we considered using XML and JSON, and … Continue reading →

Posted in C, clutter, developer, git, GNOME, Hacking | 7 Comments

When the Levee Breaks

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Yesterday I decided to start working on the porting of the Gtk2::SourceView Perl module to the new upstream API. For my convenience, and because I know I’ll probably screw up, I decided to use a local git repository so I … Continue reading →

Posted in developer, die-cvs-die, fun, git, Hacking, Perl | 5 Comments

My Wandering Days Are Over

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

This weekend I’ve finally tried Vala, something I wanted to do for a while now. Vala is, for those of you that never tried it, like GOB, but on PCP and steroids and with a syntax that doesn’t make using … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, Hacking | 4 Comments

Small Print

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Could someone please tell me why notification-daemon holds ~51000 windows after two days of uptime? 51700 windows? Really? Now, I accept the idea that maybe xrestop is lying (and mallum on my back is ready to hit me) but this … Continue reading →

Posted in crack, leaks, Linux, rants, suckage | 6 Comments

Flying Teapot

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Clutter 0.4.0 was, finally, released two days ago. Not only the core and add-on libraries but also the language bindings are available for this new stable release cycle. We already started working on trunk for the 0.5/0.6 development cycle, which … Continue reading →

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