Been playing with XSLT a bit recently. It is quite a nice transformation language. I have been porting the gtk-doc DocBook -> HTML conversion program to use xsltproc (with a customisation layer over Norman Walsh's XSL stylesheets), rather than Jade (with a customisation layer over his DSSSL stylesheets). Took a little while to learn what I needed, but the end result looked fairly elegant. While working on the customisation layer, I even found a simple bug in the base stylesheets.
EggMenu The menu merge code is mostly working now. With some help from Anders, almost all the menu merge functionality is working. You can merge and demerge UI files, bind a particular menu item to a different action, and use placeholders. Toolbars are still left to go. I need to work out how to do the placeholders on toolbars, as the placeholder implementation for menus makes use of (possibly hidden) separator menu items before and after the elements within the placeholder. The separators in GtkToolbar are not widgets, so I will need to work out some other way to handle it. linux.conf.au Preparation for the conference is going well. We are still waiting for more submissions for the Call for Papers. If you want to do a talk, please send in a submission!
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.
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).
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.