Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

DBus Perl Bindings

Posted on April 11, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’m the process of writing the Perl bindings for DBus, <ad-campaign-mode>the New! And! Improved! IPC mechanism, which is spreading throughout the entire Linux desktop scene</ad-campaign-mode>. Since I’m binding the GLib interface, the choosen namespace is DBus::Glib; I also plan to … Continue reading →

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GConf’s User Interface

Posted on April 8, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Last month I have found some time to hack again on the Gnome2::GConf module, the Perl bindings to GConf. IOI wrapped the GConfEngine low-level stuff, and rewrote the entire error handling layer. While I was at it, I began thinking … Continue reading →

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GNOME Keyring Kills Babies

Posted on February 28, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve just downloaded the gnome-keyring-manager application, written for the GNOME Love effort, in order to see its new UI; along the way, I decided to give a look to the gnome-keyring library. The more I look at gnome-keyring.h, the more … Continue reading →

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WordPress

Posted on February 28, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Since I’ve already updated my italian blog to version 1.5 of WordPress, I’ve decided to update my english blog.

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Ubuntu Linux: followup

Posted on October 23, 2004 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve successfully installed Ubuntu Linux – and solved a problem with my Radeon 7000 graphic card. Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Linux

Posted on October 22, 2004 by Emmanuele Bassi

Yesterday, I’ve downloaded the first official release of Ubuntu Linux – codenamed Warty Warthog. It seems – as I’ve been reading on Planet GNOME and Planet Debian – that this distro is the Next Best Thing® for desktop usage, so … Continue reading →

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Late Night Hacking

Posted on July 28, 2004 by Emmanuele Bassi

Another night of late hour hacking session. Trash applet I’ve hooked up a working version of Michiel’s trash applet; it now has a stub menu entry that recalls the online help, and I also added the possibility to open up … Continue reading →

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Trash Applet

Posted on July 27, 2004 by Emmanuele Bassi

Skimming through the gnome-devel list, I found the announcement of a simple Trash applet for the GNOME panel, made by Michiel Sikkes (here‘s the site, with a screenshot). I think it’s a great idea: sometimes the Trash icon is simply … Continue reading →

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Gnome2::Print (and future plans)

Posted on July 4, 2004 by Emmanuele Bassi

Gnome2::Print It’s been a long way, but in the end the Perl binding for libgnomeprint (and libgnomeprint-ui) has been finally completed. Hurray for me. :-) I’ve just committed the code that binds Gnome2::Print::Paper and its methods, inside the 0.93 release … Continue reading →

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