Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Gnome-utils 2.13.95 – “Escape Velocity”

Posted on March 7, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Seems like I forgot to announce the new release of gnome-utils; actually, this week-end I had a bad cold (I’m not completely cured, though), and standing in front of my laptop made my eyes sore after two or three minutes. … Continue reading →

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Gnome-utils 2.13.93 – “Asynchronous Beauty”

Posted on February 24, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve just uploaded the new beta release for gnome-utils, code name Asynchronous Beauty. Read the announcement, download the tarball, report the bugs!

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FOSDEM 2006

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Next week-end I’ll be in Brussels, at this year’s FOSDEM. I wasn’t sure whether I’d be able to go or not – late flight booking and I had to check at two hostels before actually getting some place to sleep. … Continue reading →

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Gnome-utils 2.13.92 – Gnome-utils vs. Bugzilla

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

This evening, before going to dinner with Marta at my parent’s, I did the 2.13.92 release of gnome-utils, codenamed Gnome-utils versus Bugzilla. Since we have approached the feature freeze, the UI freeze and now the string freeze, it’s mostly a … Continue reading →

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Third-graders

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

This is a comment I left on Philip’s blog in response to Ross’ blog. question: what are we, third graders that we must do all this touchy-feely, “we must not make comments” stuff? ross’ comment was a bit on the … Continue reading →

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Transfer

Posted on February 1, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Marta got accepted for a MSc at the LSE, and she’d really like to move to Good Ol’ London – with me coming along. So, in the next months I’ll have to find a gig in the UK: time to … Continue reading →

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Gnome-utils 2.13.91 – Ain’t That a Brown Paper Bag?

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

The first second β-release of the Gnome-utils package is out! Fixes for crashers, better error handling, font settings and much more! Go get it! Update Gnome-utils 2.13.90 had a glitch in the build system that resulted in the absence of … Continue reading →

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Porting

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve just updated the Recent Files and Bookmarks page on Gnome’s wiki: some (long due) clean ups and typo checking, but I’ve also added a porting guide, showing how to use the RecentManager and RecentChooser objects: addition, look up, display, … Continue reading →

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Roadmap

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

With the incoming release of Gnome 2.13.90, we are approaching the 2.14 version of Gnome. Now, features are frozen, and soon even changing the UI will require at least two approvals (one from the GUP and one from the release … Continue reading →

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Broken

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

The next release of gnome-utils, 2.13.90, will make libgdict adhere to the API/ABI freeze, even if it’s not part of the Gnome Developer Platform but only of the Desktop. The freeze had been in effect since the last release (January … Continue reading →

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