Put together some slides for the workshop talks at GUADEC. I have put them up on the web at http://www.daa.com.au/~james/slides/ for anyone who wants to read them. I put out new versions of libglade, pygtk and gnome-python yesterday. The new libglade version contains bonobo support from Michael Meeks. The other two were mostly bug fixes.
Got a message from jwz on dia-list. He had a few interesting ideas for dia. I don't know how soon we will be able to implement them. Did a little more work on libglade. Should probably do a new release soon. Should also release new pygtk and gnome-python before going to GUADEC. Today was very humid rather than being very hot.
Thought I would see what the Advogato trust web looked like with graphviz. I would not recommend anyone else doing this, as it takes longer than I wanted to wait. Running it on just the purple lines finished in reasonable time, but ghostview was not usable with such a large single page PS file. Someone suggested adding support for graphviz. As graphviz is not open source (despite what they say they believe in their licence faq), we can't link it with dia. If I get around to doing this, it would probably involve modifying graphviz to export the data in an easily readable format, and getting the import filter to read this data through a pipe.
More work on ExtensionClass based pygtk. I now have an almost finished code generator that will convert files in Havoc's new defs format to ExtensionClass based wrappers. There are a few problems, but it is mostly working. Handling of plain functions is partly done as well. I should apply some of the fixes people have sent in to the HEAD branch of pygtk. I should also look at fixing the gettext.py bug for catalogs created on big endian machines. It got up to 37 degrees C today. Very hot.
Have started using Sawmill as my window manager. It feels quite nice and is very configurable. I am sure I could easily waste hours getting it to act exactly how I want it to :) Have started working on the new ExtensionClass based pygtk code. It is on the extension-class-branch of pygtk in CVS. Currently there is not much to see other than a program to convert header files to Havoc's new defs file format and a program to merge changes from one defs file into another (needed because the header parser is not perfect and there is some info that is just not included in C headers). There is also a bit of code in pygtk/gtk/ (I am rearanging some of the modules to be nicer to the module namespace, and friendlier to case insensitive platforms such as win32). Code generator comes next. A new SVG draft came out. It includes stuff about `Exchange SVG'. Maybe it would be good to use it for the shape files in dia instead of the current method using style attributes.