Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Snow

It’s been snowing since yesterday morning, here in Milan. Waking up with 20 cm of snow and watching it grow has some sort of hypnotical beauty, which vanishes as soon as you realize that: two of the major national airports … Continue reading

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Developement Trunk

Shamed by kris’ post about the state of Project Ridley stuff, I resumed the recent-files hacking after the gnome-utils/gnome-dictionary crazy run that occupied my nights in the last three months or so. RecentManager and RecentChooser I already did a review … Continue reading

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Release Craziness

Tonight it was release time – when GNOME tarballs were due in order to allow 48 hours of smoke testing before the actual release, on January 18th. I did the gnome-utils release, and decided to hang out a bit on … Continue reading

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New release of gnome-utils

I’ve just rolled the 2.13.5 release of gnome-utils, code-named Optimized for Size. This release sports a ton of fixes for Dictionary, which now can remember its size and state across sessions; the usage (in the Search Tool and in Dictionary) … Continue reading

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Glib::Builder

I’ve began working on a new build environment for Glib, Glib::Builder. Glib should use it, and provide it for Gtk2, Gnome2 and the other Perl bindings; well, hopefully, and when it’s finished, that is. It should also supercede not only … Continue reading

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There And Back Again

There (to Berlin) and Back (to work) again. Continue reading

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Leaving

packing again, me and Marta are leaving tomorrow for Berlin. we’ll get back in seven days, with a ton of photos.

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shell

my request for a SSH account was granted. since Vincent is in the middle of a “continent” switch, he asked me to do the 2.13.4 release of gnome-utils, so here‘s to you gnome-utils 2.13.4 – “Ubiquitous X-ray”, the fourth unstable … Continue reading

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Upgrade

I’ve just upgraded my italian blog to WordPress 2.0, so I decided to upgrade context switch too. the upgrade procedure inside WP2.0 is serverly broken – or so, it seems on my web hosting, resulting in a lot of permission … Continue reading

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End

Happy new year!!!

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