Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

London

Posted on May 2, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Well, it’s been a full week since I moved to London, and everything is coming along quite nicely. The house is really cool, with a big bedroom and an even bigger dining room. It’s still missing some bits of furniture, … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Life, london, moving | 5 Comments

Growing Family

Posted on April 23, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve just finished including baobab, the disk usage analysis tool written by Fabio Marzocca (and others), into gnome-utils HEAD. Everything seems to build fine, and make distcheck has just confirmed that gnome-utils-2.15.0 is ready to be released. I plan to … Continue reading →

Posted in General, GNOME, gnome-utils | 2 Comments

Feeling yourself disintegrate

Posted on April 21, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

life: In the past 24 hours I’ve had: a bad cold a sore throat some lines of fever water spilled on my laptop’s keyboard thus, a broken Ctrl key that would not disengage itself and, finally, a broken Ctrl key … Continue reading →

Posted in Hacking, Life, Perl | 8 Comments

For the price of a cup of tea

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Here’s a screenshot of testaction test showing the GtkRecentAction action for use with the GtkUIManager. The action is bound to a menuitem tag inside the UI definition markup. The code needs cleaning up and the hooking up of the GtkRecentChooser … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, Hacking, recent-files | 3 Comments

ChangeLog

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

moving out: Marta has been in London a couple of times, in these two weeks; she has found a nice house in Crystal Palace, and began to buy furniture and stuff, and preparing it for us to move in. Next … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, gnome-utils, Hacking, Life, recent-files | Comments Off on ChangeLog

EpS.O.B.

Posted on April 4, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Davyd is absolutely right: steer away from any new-ish Epson printer you see, no matter how cheap they throw it at you. When I was living with my parents, I “inherited” an old StylusColor 760 – easily the best printer … Continue reading →

Posted in epson, hardware, Linux, printer, rants | 14 Comments

Lazy loading

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Little post about a useful design pattern in GLib and GTK, written down after a question on the #gtk+ channel While I’m not Philip and I won’t go as far as talking about this in public, I wrote down a … Continue reading →

Posted in C, GNOME, Hacking | 9 Comments

The API has landed

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

The GtkRecent code is finally in gtk+ HEAD branch. A couple of things are still missing, mostly documentation and examples (the exact list is here, if you want to check). The code needed a year to take shape (I was … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, GNOME, Hacking, recent-files | 2 Comments

Merger

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Seems that I’m being syndacated… aggregated… whatever… on a Planet, so hi! I’m starting merging the GBookmarkFile parser into my local copy of GLib’s HEAD branch (the tracker bug is #327662). I’ve created a testb suite and a bunch of … Continue reading →

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ChangeLog

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Long time, no blog. Here’s a brief recap of what happened in the last three weeks: Matthias Clasen has began reviewing the Recent Documents code, and we are planning to get it merged beginning next week; I sent a recap … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, Hacking, job, recent-files, travel | 1 Comment