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Applications instead of commands

I wrote a patch (already in eel CVS HEAD) for the add application for mime type dialog. Now you can select it from a list of know applications instead of writing an obscure command:Also wrote a patch for prettify the … Continue reading

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Some useful features in gaim

Tonigh I implemented one of the most requested features of MSN gaim users (or at least of my friends using gaim): previews for transfered images:I’m not putting the patch here yet, because I’m not really sure about the UI (comments … Continue reading

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Madrid ha muerto, de nuevo

Madrid ha muerto is a great book written by Luis Antonio de Villena. The title comes from a sentence pronounced by Miguel Pi

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Dear Three Wise Men

In Spain we have the ancient tradition during Xmas of children asking for presents to the Three Wise Men, instead of that ugly Coca Cola man. So here is my letter for the GNOME community:Dear Three Wise MenThis year I’ve … Continue reading

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Eclipse for GNOME

Eclipse: Recently I’ve been playing with eclipse + cdt to use it as a GNOME platform development evironement. I needed to rebuild the swt-gtk/mozilla bindings because the binary provided by eclipse.org is linked agains mozilla 1.6, and both, my Fedora … Continue reading

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IM Buddy List

Jeff, Jakub: I can I agree with you don’t like/using buddy contact list for IM, but again, we shouldn’t develop applications for hackers (as we did with GNOME 1.4). 99% of IM users wants a buddy list, just because some … Continue reading

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My Top Ten GNOME questions

This is my random (and maybe flaming) list: Why Red Hat is not making any Java-GNOME application? If they want to promote java as a platform for the linux desktop and bindings are stable, why not use them for their … Continue reading

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remover

Today I downloaded Fedora Core 3 to upgrade my system. After inserting the first cd I saw this dialog. remove in Spanish is not remover it is eliminar or quitar. This is the most common mistake I can see in … Continue reading

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Berlin

Last Sunday I flyed to Berlin with a friend just for a concert, the best concert of the best musician: Tom Waits. We spend there 4 days and enjoied a lot the city. We took some beers with murrayc. . … Continue reading

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No blank CDs

Nat: I had a patch for burning playlists with muine. I think I finished the last issues (checking for enough free space on hard drive for temp files and on the blank disc). The only problem is that I don’t … Continue reading

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