Category Archives: Hacking

Feeling yourself disintegrate

Posted on April 21, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

life: In the past 24 hours I’ve had: a bad cold a sore throat some lines of fever water spilled on my laptop’s keyboard thus, a broken Ctrl key that would not disengage itself and, finally, a broken Ctrl key … Continue reading →

Posted in Hacking, Life, Perl | 8 Comments

For the price of a cup of tea

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Here’s a screenshot of testaction test showing the GtkRecentAction action for use with the GtkUIManager. The action is bound to a menuitem tag inside the UI definition markup. The code needs cleaning up and the hooking up of the GtkRecentChooser … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, Hacking, recent-files | 3 Comments

ChangeLog

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

moving out: Marta has been in London a couple of times, in these two weeks; she has found a nice house in Crystal Palace, and began to buy furniture and stuff, and preparing it for us to move in. Next … Continue reading →

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Lazy loading

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Little post about a useful design pattern in GLib and GTK, written down after a question on the #gtk+ channel While I’m not Philip and I won’t go as far as talking about this in public, I wrote down a … Continue reading →

Posted in C, GNOME, Hacking | 9 Comments

The API has landed

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

The GtkRecent code is finally in gtk+ HEAD branch. A couple of things are still missing, mostly documentation and examples (the exact list is here, if you want to check). The code needed a year to take shape (I was … Continue reading →

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Merger

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Seems that I’m being syndacated… aggregated… whatever… on a Planet, so hi! I’m starting merging the GBookmarkFile parser into my local copy of GLib’s HEAD branch (the tracker bug is #327662). I’ve created a testb suite and a bunch of … Continue reading →

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ChangeLog

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Long time, no blog. Here’s a brief recap of what happened in the last three weeks: Matthias Clasen has began reviewing the Recent Documents code, and we are planning to get it merged beginning next week; I sent a recap … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, Hacking, job, recent-files, travel | 1 Comment

Gnome-utils 2.13.95 – “Escape Velocity”

Posted on March 7, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Seems like I forgot to announce the new release of gnome-utils; actually, this week-end I had a bad cold (I’m not completely cured, though), and standing in front of my laptop made my eyes sore after two or three minutes. … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2006

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Next week-end I’ll be in Brussels, at this year’s FOSDEM. I wasn’t sure whether I’d be able to go or not – late flight booking and I had to check at two hostels before actually getting some place to sleep. … Continue reading →

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Gnome-utils 2.13.92 – Gnome-utils vs. Bugzilla

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

This evening, before going to dinner with Marta at my parent’s, I did the 2.13.92 release of gnome-utils, codenamed Gnome-utils versus Bugzilla. Since we have approached the feature freeze, the UI freeze and now the string freeze, it’s mostly a … Continue reading →

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