Yearly Archives: 2000

That is annoying. If your browser has the diary page cached, you will overwrite your last diary entry. The form on the diary page has the entry number as a hidden field.

I have been looking through what was installed when I did the upgrade from RH6.1 to 6.2. It looks like it installed a lot of kde stuff during the upgrade without asking (there wasn't any kde stuff before). A bit annoying, but not too bad. What was annoying was when I tried to install a new gnome-core RPM I had just built, and I get the following message: file /usr/share/gnome/apps/.directory from install of gnome-core-1.1.8-20000413 conflicts with file from package kdebase-1.1.2-33 This seems fairly odd. Why would a file in /usr/share/gnome/apps be part of kdebase? So I decided to check what actually is in kdebase: $ rpm -ql kdebase | grep gnome /usr/share/applnk/gnome /usr/share/gnome /usr/share/gnome/apps /usr/share/gnome/apps/.directory On closer inspection, the file is a slightly different format from the one with gnome-core. Also, the one in the kdebase RPM doen't contain all the translations that are in the gnome-core version. Looking at the spec file for kdebase, the file was added by whoever made the RPM. I think I will file a bug report about this.

There was another GNOME steering committee meeting last night. This one was one hour earlier, which was unexpected but nice (the last one started at midnight). This probably had something to do with the daylight saving (something we don't have to worry about over in western australia, as it confuses the cows (yes that was one of the reasons people voted no in the referendum -- the cows would get confused if they were milked at a different time)). Comitted a plugin manager dialog to dia. You can now disable plugins if you want. It seems I got unsubscribed from the dia mailing list, which is a pain. The list seemed a bit quiet recently.

Seven days till my birthday. I checked in the starts of the new plugins API for dia. This code reduces the number of entry points in a plugin to two. It should also allow me to write a nice plugin manager dialog where you can turn off loading of plugins if you want (this will be more important as we get more heavy plugins such as the python plugin).

Went to see Loon X-Wing (of Beaverloop fame) playing at the uni at lunch time yesterday. Have been setting up my system with the new hard drive. I almost have it to a working state and a delivery man gives me RH6.2. I guess I will see what improvements have been made. Noticed that a new version of gtkglarea was released in february. This means that the gtkglarea wrapper in pygtk should work with a released version of gtkglarea (there were a few API changes a while back, but no released version containing them). The first Python 1.6 is out. It contains unicode support, which should make integration with Pango/gtk+-1.4 very nice. The article about Python 3000 was interesting. I wonder how much the internals are going to change? Luckilly pygtk and gnome-python mainly consist of generated code, so changing the code generator will do the majority of the work chainging over.