Category Archives: GNOME

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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Little Earthquakes

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

After two weeks without working on it, this evening I finally returned to GtkUnique and finished the bacon-like backend. Now, beside using D-Bus and Xlibs, you can use Un*x sockets as an IPC method to send a command to a … Continue reading →

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Love and Communication

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

For the Google Summer of Code, Vytas Liuolia wrote the (very much needed) guniqueapp library; just a small recap: libguniqueapp allows the creation of single instance applications, that is applications that gets instanced once and each subsequent instance just quits … 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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GUADEC/Back

Posted on June 30, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’m back to London after the really amazing days in Vilanova. This year’s GUADEC has been really amazing: lots of interesting talks and great people to meet; there definitely was a great energy in the air. Kudos to everyone involved … Continue reading →

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GUADEC/Request

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

If there are any liferea developers at GUADEC, I’d like to have a few words about the key bindings used in your application – specifically why did you choose Ctrl+N for “go to new item” and why Ctrl+W doesn’t close … Continue reading →

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GUADEC/Day 1

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

The OH Gang arrived yesterday at GUADEC – just in time for my talk. I think that the tutorial went well – Clutter worked out of the box on the VGA port, which was quite a surprise. About Clutter: it … Continue reading →

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A Sort of Homecoming

Posted on June 22, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Sci-fi – I’ve ordered on Play.com the DVD box of the first (and last) season of Firefly and I think it really was a great show, where Joss Whedon really tried to follow the path of Isaac Asimov, and show … 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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