Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

GUADEC/recap

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

This year’s GUADEC has been really great – it seemed hard to top last year’s but paul, thos, robster and the rest of the GUADEC team really rocked hard to make everything work at its best. Kudos to all of … Continue reading →

Posted in conference, GNOME, guadec | 5 Comments

Take it or leave it

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

After the comments on my latest blog post, I got back at Unique and did some rearrangements in the code base. Now the backends are all compiled in (obviously, depending on whether you have the dependencies to compile them) and … Continue reading →

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Strange news from another star

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve been promising a release of GtkUnique for a while now, but work and other stuff got in the way of the namespace change-slash-rewrite. Yesterday I finally got around finishing the porting of the Unix domain sockets backend (or “bacon”) … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, C, GNOME, Hacking | 14 Comments

Time is Running Out

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Today I committed a couple of fixes to GtkRecentManager and I thought it was worth mentioning them on pgo. Up until now, GtkRecentManager instances were available either via the gtk_recent_manager_new() constructor – which left the memory management duties to the … Continue reading →

Posted in C, GNOME, gtk, Hacking | 6 Comments

Back in Black

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Dear ATi, if you’re not even able to make decent drivers for your own (admittedly crappy) graphic hardware, please have the decency to fail and go out of business as you rightfully deserve. No love, Emmanuele.

Posted in die-ati-die, General, rants | 8 Comments

Expect

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Well, it seems that after six years a new release of Emacs is out – and it uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit. I’d like to think that what took so long was not adding this thing to the file … Continue reading →

Posted in gtk, rants | 4 Comments

Company Calls Epilogue

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Today I gave the final touches to a patch based upon the patch for search capabilities in the GtkFileChooser embeddable widget, adding the “Recently Used” shortcut: there are still a few missing bits (the icon for the shortcut is one … Continue reading →

Posted in C, GNOME, gtk, Hacking, recent-files | 9 Comments

Company Calls

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Search support for the GtkFileChooser (#344785) landed in GTK+ trunk. It’s a patch written by Federico and updated by Matthias Clasen (I merely kept it in sync with trunk). The patch adds a private search engine abstraction object and three … Continue reading →

Posted in C, GNOME, gtk, Hacking | 20 Comments

Down on the corner

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

VFS: Lennart, what you want is GVFS, which is being developed right now by alexl, has dropped the POSIX abstraction approach and it’s surely more portable than FUSE. And, most of all, has a sane API (for a change). For … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, gtk | 1 Comment

Going Mobile

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

At the end of this week I’ll be in Copenhagen for the Nordic Perl Workshop. I’ll give two talks about GNOME and Perl: the first one is about binding GObject-based libraries in Perl and using the Perl bindings in order … Continue reading →

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