Category Archives: Hacking

Small Stakes

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Tonight I released version 2.17.90 of the GNOME Utilities package. It’s not just another release: it marks the end of the work on the interactive dialog of the screenshot utility: Now every command line switch is replicated on the interactive … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, GNOME, gnome-utils | 4 Comments

Wonderboy

Posted on January 22, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

A couple of days ago, thos wrote about the branding of the GNOME System Monitor; soon after that, a bug was opened about the image – how the colour was off for every non-blue theme, and how it went against … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME | 14 Comments

Well That Was Easy

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

After a bit more than six months of work, Clutter 0.2.0 is finally out! We put a lot of effort in making the API a bit less rough around the edges, and adding new features at the same time. Like … Continue reading →

Posted in clutter, developer, Hacking, ohand | 5 Comments

John Saw That Number

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Thanks to Ross and his mad python-fu skillz, now we have a working Python binding for gtkunique – for the brave souls which may want to use it. The repositories locations have been changed, after the servers update at OpenedHand, … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, developer, GNOME, Hacking, ohand, Python | 2 Comments

The Engine Driver

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Here we are again with the Dictionary hacking; I left my development trunk with barely enough time to close crashers and brown paper bags patchs, and now I’m finally able to return working on it. Here’s an interesting bug, about … Continue reading →

Posted in gnome-dictionary, gnome-utils, Hacking | 10 Comments

Twist The Knife

Posted on November 18, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Dear LazyWeb: I’m trying to clean up the python bindings for the next release of a GObject-based library, so I’m using pygtk and its codegen magic; unfortunately, being codegen.py an incredibly bad program, I can’t see why or how it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in clutter, open-source, Python, rants | 1 Comment

Song for Sunshine

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

I just made two releases for gnome-utils: the first is 2.16.2, another release in the stable branch, which fixes a couple of bugs in Baobab and Screenshot that were also fixed in HEAD and deemed important enough to be backported. … Continue reading →

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Little Earthquakes

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

After two weeks without working on it, this evening I finally returned to GtkUnique and finished the bacon-like backend. Now, beside using D-Bus and Xlibs, you can use Un*x sockets as an IPC method to send a command to a … Continue reading →

Posted in announce, C, GNOME, Hacking, open-source | 8 Comments

Love and Communication

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

For the Google Summer of Code, Vytas Liuolia wrote the (very much needed) guniqueapp library; just a small recap: libguniqueapp allows the creation of single instance applications, that is applications that gets instanced once and each subsequent instance just quits … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, Hacking | 6 Comments

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