Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Crash Years

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

to continue the series about actions and constraints, here’s an example showing how to use the ClutterDragAction to create a scrolling container that pans the contents using dragging. we can start with the usual set up of the stage: clutter_init … Continue reading →

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Constraints

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

last time, I described the Effects in Clutter as anything that should affect the way an actor paints itself without sub-classing. this kind of modification of the behaviour of an Actor can also be applied to other areas, and leads … Continue reading →

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Control

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

three years ago Neil and I wrote the Model API, to be included in Clutter. We tried encode in the design what we learned from the experience with GtkTreeModel, and while it could be said that there are shortcomings (a … Continue reading →

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Going to GUADEC

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

both my talk proposals made the cut for GUADEC 20101. my first submission is a GUADEC tradition since 2008 : the state of the union talk for Clutter. the talk last year at GCDS got great feedback, and the modified … Continue reading →

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Apology Song

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Emmanuele Bassi

this much is clear: I suck at the whole blogging thing. I was planning on writing up what awesome new features we were planning to add in Clutter 1.2 and before I knew it I was releasing 1.2.0 — all … Continue reading →

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Remember to breathe

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

summit: my second GNOME Summit was a great experience. being a small, hack-oriented conference makes it possible to have a lot of work done — or discussed; I must thank everyone that helped organize it: it was great. I also … Continue reading →

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Clutter Q&A

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

since there are free slots here at GCDS I was wondering if somebody wanted to have a sit down and ask questions about Clutter; bugs and feature requests for 1.2 are also welcomed. just send me an email at: ebassi … Continue reading →

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A Year of Clutter

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

so, GUADEC/GCDS is now halfway through, and it’s been a pretty cool conference so far. obviously, lots of talks and loads of people to meet and to talk to. Rob did a roundup of the talks that the Intel/Moblin contingent … Continue reading →

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The Wanting Comes in Waves

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

so, we’re finally free to show what we’ve been doing for the past six months: it’s been a great ride — and it’s just getting started. we’ve been pushing Clutter forward and center of an entire platform user experience, and … Continue reading →

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The Hazards of Love

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Emmanuele Bassi

while I’m rebuilding my jhbuild setup in order to roll out gnome-utils 2.27.11 I started pondering on a couple of questions: why are we still shipping the dictionary applet? and, more importantly: why are we still shipping a DICT protocol … Continue reading →

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