Category Archives: gtk

Odalisque

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

this GUADEC has been quite a ride, and we’re just halfway through. gtk+: the gtk+ team meeting on tuesday went really well — and part of the discussion was incorporated in Kris always excellent State of the union talk. the … 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 →

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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 →

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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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Time is Running Out

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Today I committed a couple of fixes to GtkRecentManager and I thought it was worth mentioning them on pgo. Up until now, GtkRecentManager instances were available either via the gtk_recent_manager_new() constructor – which left the memory management duties to the … Continue reading →

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Expect

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Well, it seems that after six years a new release of Emacs is out – and it uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit. I’d like to think that what took so long was not adding this thing to the file … Continue reading →

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Company Calls Epilogue

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Today I gave the final touches to a patch based upon the patch for search capabilities in the GtkFileChooser embeddable widget, adding the “Recently Used” shortcut: there are still a few missing bits (the icon for the shortcut is one … Continue reading →

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