Category Archives: GNOME

Fastlove/2

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

GNOME Performance Love Day just ended. Bugs were filed, patches applied, applications profiled. A little step in the right direction for making GNOME faster. Thanks to everyone involved: you rock.

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Fastlove

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Sunday will be the GNOME Performance Love Day! The idea was first proposed on the #performance channel, after seeing that some of the initial performance related issues were simply lacking a bitof man-power, and weren’t that difficult even for a … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet/2

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

As I said on the gnome-utils mailing list, the GNOME Dictionary codebase sucks. Well, it sucks to the very end of it. It really shows its age (it’s more than 5 years old), and suffers of what I’m used to … Continue reading →

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Thumbnails

Posted on October 6, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Today I had a couple of hours to spare at the university, so I decided to implement a couple of items in my “to do” list. The first is the creation of a simple function for adding items to the … Continue reading →

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RecentChooserWidget/1

Posted on August 18, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

The EggRecentChooserWidget code is in CVS since a bunch of minutes, complete with a context menu allowing the removal of items from the list, the ability to add a custom RecentManager instance instead of using its own (still requires some … Continue reading →

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RecentChooserWidget

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve pretty much finished my EggRecentChooserWidget widget, which (I noticed) is roughly modelled on the Document History window of the Gimp: Also, as you can see, I’ve enable the filtering code, so that you can now filter the contents of … Continue reading →

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Post-Triage

Posted on June 21, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve spent the last five hours triaging the open bugs of recent-files. Some of them were in bugzilla since 2003, and many were marked UNCOFIRMED. First of all, I scanned the bugs with patches, and created a first batch with … Continue reading →

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Back from GUADEC

Posted on June 1, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Yesterday I came back from the GUADEC 2005 in Stuttgart. It has been freakin’ awesome! The talks, the people, the organization… Simply amazing. I enjoyed every talk I attended: the Cairo talk by Owen Taylor; the Keith Packard’s talk on … Continue reading →

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Bookmark Spec

Posted on May 13, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’ve sent a draft for a desktop bookmark spec on fd.o, and it got reviewed – mostly by the KDE people, that got already a standard way of storing bookmarks across the desktop. If it reaches the common approval, I’ll … Continue reading →

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Gnome Desktop Bookmarks

Posted on May 6, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

On Gnome Live there’s an ongoing discussion about recent files and bookmarks in Gnome. In the last two weeks I’ve been designing and writing a platform library for Gnome which addresses the points made on the Wiki, on Bugzilla and … Continue reading →

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