Star Wars
Went to see AOTC today. It was a lot better than Episode 1. It was pretty cool recognising some of the buildings I had been to in Seville in some of the scenes. It was a bit weird that all the clones were kiwis though.
17 May 2002
Switched over to GNOME 2.0 on my laptop. It is definitely at the stage where I can use it for every day work. There are a few annoyances, but it is shaping up quite nicely. Libglade is shaping up very nicely, and will probably be go stable soon. PyGTK might take a little longer. I recently found out that bugzilla.gnome.org has support for new email tech, but it was turned off by default. I turned it on, and the bug mail looks a lot nicer (like my mail from all the other bugzillas, rather than diff -u output).
12 May 2002
linux.conf.au 2003 The Call for Papers is out: http://conf.linux.org.au/pipermail/lca-helpers/2002-May/000109.html There is also an HTML version on the website, but it doesn't quite match the final version of the CFP (yet). Beer Bottled the honey ale today. It will be interesting to see how it tastes in a few weeks. The sweetness was gone, but I could definitely taste the honey still. It should be very nice. GNOME 2.0 Put out yet another beta of libglade for the GNOME 2.0 beta 5 release which should be comming out this week. I should also make new releases of pygtk and gnome-python as well. I have done a number of improvements to the code generator, so pygtk is a bit more complete. The last gnome-python release no longer compiles with the latest GConf, so it also needs a new release.
5 May 2002
Started another batch of beer yesterday. This time I mixed in a kilogram of honey (replacing some of the sugar), so it will be interesting to see how this turns out. The bubbles coming out of the airlock smell fairly different, so it will hopefully go okay. Merged some patches from various people into my jhbuild build scripts over the weekend. Thanks to jdahlin, it now has support for getting things from other CVS trees. At the moment, we have rules for thinice2, gstreamer and mrproject using this feature.
30 April 2002
Menu Code I moved all my action based menu prototype code into libegg, which is becomming the prototype library hp proposed a while back. andersca might check in some of his new icon list widget soon, which will be good. GTK+ 2.4 should be very good (the 2.2 feature list has already been finalised; it is basically 2.0 plus the multihead patches, and should be available in a month or two). My menu code should eventually provide menu merge capabilities similar to the UI handler code in libbonoboui, but not depending on any of the corba stuff. It should be extensible enough so that it can be used by things like bonobo. The aim being to allow gtk+ and gnome/bonobo programs to use exactly the same menu code (rather than having to rewrite portions of an app in order to port it to GNOME). linux.conf.au Hopefully the Call for Papers should be released in a day or two. Just a few last details to finalise. Note that the conference website is at conf.linux.org.au at the moment, due to the transient nature of .conf.au domains. I hope to see everyone in Perth next January! PyGTK The Python bindings for GTK+ 2.0 are going pretty well. The defs files are pretty much up to date with the 2.0 API, so I have a fair idea of what needs to be done. After finishing up a few of the remaining architectural issues, it would be good to put out a 2.0 release. Not everything needs to be wrapped, but I should reduce the number of unwrapped functions.