Category Archives: Hacking

Company Calls

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Search support for the GtkFileChooser (#344785) landed in GTK+ trunk. It’s a patch written by Federico and updated by Matthias Clasen (I merely kept it in sync with trunk). The patch adds a private search engine abstraction object and three … Continue reading →

Posted in C, GNOME, gtk, Hacking | 20 Comments

Down on the corner

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

VFS: Lennart, what you want is GVFS, which is being developed right now by alexl, has dropped the POSIX abstraction approach and it’s surely more portable than FUSE. And, most of all, has a sane API (for a change). For … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, gtk | 1 Comment

Going Mobile

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

At the end of this week I’ll be in Copenhagen for the Nordic Perl Workshop. I’ll give two talks about GNOME and Perl: the first one is about binding GObject-based libraries in Perl and using the Perl bindings in order … Continue reading →

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Falling Away With You

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

A couple of weeks ago I decided to give git a try, after this old post written by nud about using git-svn to create a bridge between a project stored under a SVN repository and a git repository. I’ve choosen … Continue reading →

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Time For Lovin’

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

You can see I’m listening to the Beastie Boys, right now In the last three days I’ve finally managed to resolve as fixed these GTK+ bugs: Bug 347375 – Not possible to set startup notification ID on a GtkWindow Bug … Continue reading →

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Shazam!

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

GNOME 2.18 is out! Go and check it out! Obviously, the release of GNOME 2.18 means that we can now start working on 2.20 – after a well deserved beer. ;-)

Posted in announce, GNOME | 2 Comments

Of Angels And Angles

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

GtkApplication class: I’ve updated the application class page on the wiki. Now, it has an updated layout of the API (which is what I’m currently working on) and the design requirements it should fulfil. While writing it I had some … Continue reading →

Posted in C, developer, GNOME, gtk, Hacking, open-source | 6 Comments

Live Wire

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Back from FOSDEM 2007, after a little detour in Helsinki. I’ve opened a bug for the places support in GtkFileChooser: #413076. Attached to it you’ll find a patch; it should be taken with a grain of salt: it’s still a … Continue reading →

Posted in C, developer, fosdem, GNOME, gtk, Hacking, project-ridley | 3 Comments

Like Eating Glass

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Desktop-devel-list (d-d-l) is an interesting place. You follow discussions that usually tend to fork off, moving through tangential arguments; but, in the end, some stuff keeps turning up. Lately, for instance, every thread seems to end up on discussing about … Continue reading →

Posted in C, developer, GNOME, gtk, open-source | 7 Comments

Come and See

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Decemberists: Yesterday evening, The Decemberists were in London, and made a wonderful concert at Shepherd Bush. I’ve fallen in love with the band after vieweing the video of their song Sixteen Military Wives and I started getting my hands on … Continue reading →

Posted in developer, fosdem, GNOME, gtk, Hacking, Life, london, music, recent-files | 1 Comment