Category Archives: GNOME

Documentation

Posted on December 5, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

In the last thirty minutes I’ve ported gnome-utils to the new, spiffy gnome-doc-utils system. I hope that this could hit HEAD in the next few days (pending Vincent‘s approval)- the sheer amount of stuff deleted and/or changed is really high. … Continue reading →

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Leaking/2

Posted on December 3, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

After some six hours, a chinese dinner, two large glasses of earl grey tea, and a coffee, I’m finally able to declare that, according to Valgrind, both the libegg/recent-files and libegg/recentchooser code are leak-free. Okay, take this with a grain … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/8

Posted on November 29, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve finally been able to begin working on the new GNOME Dictionary widgets. While GdictEntry still has issues – related to the speed of word look up and the entry completion – and has already hit CVS, in the last … Continue reading →

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Long-standing

Posted on November 28, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve just committed some code that should hopefully fix bug #172587 of the old recent-files code. The bug was hard to track down – and for it I do own a beer to Sebastien Bacher: it appears that older versions … Continue reading →

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Friends

Posted on November 25, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve just donated to the GNOME Foundation. Not much (but since I got back to studying for this year, my <marketspeak>revenue stream</marketspeak> has really slowed down), but I plan to donate more money, aside from my time as a developer, … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/7

Posted on November 24, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

New week, new adventures Actually, the number of new adventures has been strictly limited by my birthday first, and by a strange feeling of drowsiness that lasted all week (and still lasts as I’m writing this). Probably, it’s due to … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/6

Posted on November 21, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

The new GNOME Dictionary code has landed in CVS this morning! woot! I hope I didn’t fuck everything up – as usual when I’m dealing with CVS. viewcvs seems to be fine – and the tree seems to build. ATM, … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/5

Posted on November 20, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Don’t you hate it when you arrive near deployment stage and you have to get back to the design table because someone makes you notice that the architecture you’ve very cleverly layed out has one fatal flaw? Well, to be … Continue reading →

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Profiling GMarkup – Take 3

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Yesterday, I was attending the GTK developers meeting and I was asked by Federico what performances the BookmarkFile parser yields. I replied: ebassi: f_lunch, I/O plays a big role. a file with 3000 bookmarks gets parsed in 2 seconds, more … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/4

Posted on November 12, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

In order to let others know how’s the status of GNOME Dictionary Breaking is progressing (and in order to force myself working on it regularly ;-)), I’m sending the Not So Weekly Status Report on GNOME Dictionary Containing the status … Continue reading →

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