Author Archives: Emmanuele Bassi

Sincerest Forms of Flattery

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

tidy: they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: the actual amount of code is quite small, and it’s already available in Tidy. challenges: Luca dared me into making a Clutter-based coverflow-like plugin for Rhythmbox, but it was … Continue reading →

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Good Intentions/2

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

gtk+: I’ve been working again on the RecentManager and in trunk you’ll see some new stuff, namely: use GIO to determine the MIME type of a URI, on every platform supported use the file monitoring API to avoid polling the … Continue reading →

Posted in C, clutter, crack, developer, glib, GNOME, gtk, Hacking, json-glib | 8 Comments

Being Luis Villa

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

iain‘s right: this is funnier than the history meme.

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Good Intentions

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

unique: this morning I released version 0.9.4 of libunique, everyone (least) favourite library for writing single instance applications. it’s mostly a bug fixing release, and since I’ve decided to release 1.0.0 soon, this is also the first release candidate for … Continue reading →

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Rhyme the rhyme well

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

Jason, it’s not just the canvas: writing a simple 2D canvas is trivial — that’s why a lot of applications end up writing their own homegrown one. The hard bits are the animation framework, the event handling and down to … Continue reading →

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Time to Build

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

Claudio did some interesting profiling (and patching) of the BookmarkFile implementation in GLib — so kudos to him and Felix. one thing that he noted is: However, I still have the feeling that letting ~\.recently-used.xbel grow without control is very, … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, gtk, recent-files | 3 Comments

Berlin/Final

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

some final thoughts on the Hackfest: it has been a great opportunity for discussing with all the usual suspects and more, and on a very high bandwidth channel — unlike IRC or the mailing list. definitely, an experience that must … Continue reading →

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Berlin/5

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

last post of the Berlin Hackfest series, written on the last minutes of day 5 today was “wrap up” day. we got together in the room used for the presentations and summed up all our work during the various sessions … Continue reading →

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Berlin/3

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

second and third day of the hackfest, edited on day five on tuesday, Behdad and I started working on OpenGL integration inside GTK+. as stated multiple times on the Bugzilla entry, what we both would like is a Cairo-like integration … Continue reading →

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Berlin/1

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

day two of the gtk+ hackfest. yesterday was devoted to the Imendio vision of a better toolkit, and how to get out of the hole we dug for ourselves with the current API/ABI contract – but others have written about … Continue reading →

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