Category Archives: GNOME

shell

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

my request for a SSH account was granted. since Vincent is in the middle of a “continent” switch, he asked me to do the 2.13.4 release of gnome-utils, so here‘s to you gnome-utils 2.13.4 – “Ubiquitous X-ray”, the fourth unstable … Continue reading →

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Source

Posted on December 30, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Feeling a little better, today: temperature steadily under 37°C, little to no headaches. I’ve hacked the last bits of the Add Source dialog of Dictionary, and committed away a bunch of other fixes, including one for a crasher spotted by … Continue reading →

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Maybe this Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Only a few minutes into Christmas, and a few hours before the traditional lunch and dinner of this day. In the last four days I feel like I’ve already eaten more than I usually eat in a month. On Tuesday, … Continue reading →

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Sadism, Bestiality and Necrophily

Posted on December 21, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Or “Flogging a Dead Horse for Fun and Profit” Spatial Nautilus. Again. Both Ubuntu Dapper and Novell Linux Desktop will ship with browser mode by default for Nautilus – now that browser mode got much love, enough to be usable. … Continue reading →

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Spawn of hell

Posted on December 16, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

auto-tools: from the same people that brought you EMACS. After two hours of struggling with that damned make distcheck, in order to smoke test the merge of the new-dictionary branch of gnome-utils, I’ve finally been greeted by: =================================================== gnome-utils-2.13.4.tar.gz is … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/11 and final

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

After two months, here’s to you: The New! And Improved! Dictionary Applet. Soon to hit gnome-utils HEAD on the repository mirrors near you! [hacking] [gnome] [gnome+dictionary]

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Dictionary Applet/10

Posted on December 13, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

The merge of the new-dictionary branch into gnome-utils HEAD is fast approaching: I’ve set the deadline to the end of the week – in time to write off the last bits of the preferences dialog: the sources tab of the … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/9

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve added printing support – after a bit of struggle with GnomePrint: The output format is stolen^Winspired by Gedit, and the font is hardcoded as Serif, 12; I’ve already added a GConf key to the shipped schema – GConf integration, … Continue reading →

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Maintainership/2

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve just committed my development trunk of Dictionary on the CVS, as usual to new-dictionary branch. Features a navigation menu, with shortcuts for first/previous/next/last definitions a Ctrl+Shift+G shortcut for search backwards a “Save a Copy” menu item, used to save … Continue reading →

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Maintainership

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Vincent kindly asked me to join the maintainer team of gnome-utils, and I more than gladly accepted. In order to celebrate the event, here’s the latest screenshot of my development trunk for Dictionary: the new Dictionary As you can see, … Continue reading →

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