Category Archives: GNOME

In the Mood

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

well, I failed at blagging each day of the User Experience hackfest, but mostly because of the sheer amount of discussions, designs and work done. during the first common session on monday we all decided to split off into four … Continue reading →

Posted in boston, clutter, conference, GNOME, hackfest | 9 Comments

Flying Teapot

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

final checks and the usual ohmygodwhycan’tIfindanything mode before I take the flight to Boston for the User Experience hackfest organized by Owen, Federico and Vincent. Neil and I will be talking about Clutter, what it does, and what it can … Continue reading →

Posted in conference, GNOME, hackfest, travel | 1 Comment

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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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/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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Helm, set a course… for love

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Emmanuele Bassi

a GNOME cruise? I already have the theme song… GNOME-Love Boat, love exciting and new, Come aboard, we’re expecting you. The GNOME-Love Boat soon will be making another release, The GNOME-Love Boat promises something for everyone. Set a course for … Continue reading →

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