Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Dictionary Applet/3

In case you’ve been wondering if I had disappeared or something… I’m in the middle of a session of exams, this week (four of them, to be precise), and I’ve had to cut down hacking time; nevertheless, I’ve been able … Continue reading

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Fastlove/2

GNOME Performance Love Day just ended. Bugs were filed, patches applied, applications profiled. A little step in the right direction for making GNOME faster. Thanks to everyone involved: you rock.

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Fastlove

Sunday will be the GNOME Performance Love Day! The idea was first proposed on the #performance channel, after seeing that some of the initial performance related issues were simply lacking a bitof man-power, and weren’t that difficult even for a … Continue reading

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Dictionary Applet/2

As I said on the gnome-utils mailing list, the GNOME Dictionary codebase sucks. Well, it sucks to the very end of it. It really shows its age (it’s more than 5 years old), and suffers of what I’m used to … Continue reading

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Dictionary Applet

With almost everyone in Boston, both the mailing lists and IRC channels are really quiet; feels a little weird – but I think it’s mostly envy for not being able to go to the other side of the pond and … Continue reading

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Profiling GMarkup – Take 2

Here we go again profiling GMarkup. Finally, I’ve been able to compile sysprof, and launch a profiling session of the BookmarkFile parser under it. This time, I’ve been using a 1.6MB file, with 3360 bookmark elements. Just to shed a … Continue reading

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Thumbnails

Today I had a couple of hours to spare at the university, so I decided to implement a couple of items in my “to do” list. The first is the creation of a simple function for adding items to the … Continue reading

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Gtk2::SourceView

Finally, after a more then a year of testing inside CVS, Gtk2::SourceView made it to the public. This Perl module is a wrapper around gtksourceview, the C library used primarily by Gedit. I’ve began writing it in January 2004, after … Continue reading

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Scary Voice Over

Since last tuesday, I’ve done little to nothing on the “hack” side; I’ve began a little project in Perl that should resolve in a backup manager (it’s called Hudson), but mostly I’ve done some code polishing to the libegg/recentchooser code, … Continue reading

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Yarrr!

T’ me, Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, It’s "Talk Like A Pirate" Day! That time in September when sea dogs remember That grown-ups still know how ta play! When wenches are curvy and dogs are all scurvy And a soft-wear patch … Continue reading

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