Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Lately there has been some activity in projects moving from EggRecent to GtkRecent. Obviously, this led to questions and bugs opened about the API. One of the questions is: if I had a EggRecentModel singleton what should I use now?. … Continue reading →

Posted in C, developer, gtk, Hacking, recent-files | 2 Comments

Ride on a White Horse

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Filed under the category: “useful programming tips for problems that bit my ass” The wise men from old said: Thou shalt not check if a directory or file existeth before creating it. Well, or something like that. I often see … Continue reading →

Posted in C, Hacking | 6 Comments

Rainbows and Pots of Gold

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Of docked windows, bugs and the Dictionary applet One of the two major UI issues for the new Dictionary was the absence of the speller. Since that has been somewhat fixed, even if it still lacks some polish, I decided … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, gnome-dictionary, gnome-utils, Hacking | 3 Comments

Documentation

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Davyd, the GTK+ Perl bindings come with documentation in the perldoc format (which works upon man); each object has its unique perldoc page, so if you need to know all the methods of the Gtk2::TreeView widget, all you have to … Continue reading →

Posted in gnome2-perl, Perl | 2 Comments

Tides that I tried to swim against

Posted on July 12, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

gtk-recent: For those who missed the mail on gtk-devel-list, language-bindings and desktop-devel: Unfortunately, when importing the GtkRecent API in GTK+ I made a mistake and these two functions have been erroneously left inside the GtkRecentChooser interface API: gtk_recent_chooser_set_show_numbers() gtk_recent_chooser_get_show_numbers() These … Continue reading →

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Shake Your Groove Thing

Posted on July 11, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Still in Italy, for the next 48 hours at least The wedding went incredibly well: the ceremony itself was so short (twenty minutes) that I don’t remember much of it. We were married in a beautiful building in Milan, with … Continue reading →

Posted in celebrations, General, Life, parties, wedding | 1 Comment

GUADEC/Back

Posted on June 30, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’m back to London after the really amazing days in Vilanova. This year’s GUADEC has been really amazing: lots of interesting talks and great people to meet; there definitely was a great energy in the air. Kudos to everyone involved … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, guadec | 4 Comments

GUADEC/Request

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

If there are any liferea developers at GUADEC, I’d like to have a few words about the key bindings used in your application – specifically why did you choose Ctrl+N for “go to new item” and why Ctrl+W doesn’t close … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, guadec | 5 Comments

GUADEC/Day 1

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

The OH Gang arrived yesterday at GUADEC – just in time for my talk. I think that the tutorial went well – Clutter worked out of the box on the VGA port, which was quite a surprise. About Clutter: it … Continue reading →

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Clutter

Posted on June 22, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Behold the power of Clutter! Clutter is a pretty raw user interface toolkit for building heavily visually applications for platforms such as media boxes and kiosks. It’s built on various GNOME libraries such as Pango and GObject, uses Gstreamer for … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, Hacking, ohand | Comments Off on Clutter