Category Archives: Hacking

Recent files woes

Posted on July 19, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Yesterday, on IRC, there has been some discussion about my recently used resources handling proposal – especially with regards to the storage format. I hate discussing on IRC; I’m not fast enough a typist – and since english is not … Continue reading →

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Recent Menu

Posted on July 11, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

recent-chooser: Finally, after more than one month of hacking on the RecentManager object, I’ve been able to create a reasonable “Open Recent” menu widget: Obligatory screenshot of the new and improved recent menu The icon code is placed in the … 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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Taking My Part

Posted on June 19, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

recent-files I’ve began assuming maintainership of all the bugs inside Bugzilla for the recent-files component of libegg. The listed bugs are basically issues against API unfriendlyness towards language bindings; segfaults for being too optimistic against user intervention on the storage … Continue reading →

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Blue skies from pain

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

ork: These last two months of working at $WE_TEACH_TO_TEENAGERS will kill me… I’ve been wiping out disks (which have seen too many months without a format) since last week; Windows9x is Pain and Suffering to maintain. Unfortunately, we still have … 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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Stuttgart here we come

Posted on May 27, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Travelling: Tomorrow, after work, I’ll be leaving for Milan where I’ll pick up my girlfriend Marta, and then we’ll be heading Stuttgart for GUADEC 2005. Yay! Since Stuttgart is 500 kilometers (for youn non-metric-system people, roughly 310 miles), we’ll be … 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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DBus Perl Bindings/3

Posted on May 6, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

It seems that my work on a D-Bus perl binding was duplicating the (excellent) work of Daniel P. Berrange. Not that I’m complaining: I badly needed to understand how D-Bus worked, and creating a binding was the fastest way to … Continue reading →

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