Category Archives: gnome-utils

Stuck with me

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

guadec 2008: I’m late, but I wanted to thank everyone in the GUADEC team for making this edition of the conference really rocking. thanks to everyone. clutter: well, after the 0.8.0 release during GUADEC things have slowed down — but … Continue reading →

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Small Stakes

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Tonight I released version 2.17.90 of the GNOME Utilities package. It’s not just another release: it marks the end of the work on the interactive dialog of the screenshot utility: Now every command line switch is replicated on the interactive … Continue reading →

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The Engine Driver

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Here we are again with the Dictionary hacking; I left my development trunk with barely enough time to close crashers and brown paper bags patchs, and now I’m finally able to return working on it. Here’s an interesting bug, about … Continue reading →

Posted in gnome-dictionary, gnome-utils, Hacking | 10 Comments

Song for Sunshine

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I just made two releases for gnome-utils: the first is 2.16.2, another release in the stable branch, which fixes a couple of bugs in Baobab and Screenshot that were also fixed in HEAD and deemed important enough to be backported. … Continue reading →

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Special Delivery

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I almost forgot – this should tell you how bad a maintainer I am ;-) – but Lennart’s blog reminded me: the ringchart code hit Baobab HEAD: The ringchart view is really nice – even though I still very much … Continue reading →

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Rainbows and Pots of Gold

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Of docked windows, bugs and the Dictionary applet One of the two major UI issues for the new Dictionary was the absence of the speller. Since that has been somewhat fixed, even if it still lacks some polish, I decided … Continue reading →

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Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Today I finally did find time to work on gnome-utils. I applied a whole slew of patches that sit in my development trunk for almost a couple of months now, and that I tested locally. The first thing that went … Continue reading →

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All You Want

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

this week end I decided to work full time on the dictionary; I ended up fixing a bunch of bugs and RFEs, namely no more dialogs in case of word not found a visual indicator of progress inside the main … Continue reading →

Posted in gnome-dictionary, gnome-utils, Hacking | 11 Comments

July, July

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

veronica mars: I’ve watched the season finale last week and it was awesome; the entire second season was awesome, but last episode was a blast. I’ll avoid any spoiler here, but really you should watch the show if you aren’t … Continue reading →

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Growing Family

Posted on April 23, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve just finished including baobab, the disk usage analysis tool written by Fabio Marzocca (and others), into gnome-utils HEAD. Everything seems to build fine, and make distcheck has just confirmed that gnome-utils-2.15.0 is ready to be released. I plan to … Continue reading →

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