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
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).
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.