Category Archives: Blogroll

Introduction to GObject Introspection

This was also sent to gtk-devel today: == Introduction == GObject-introspection is a package which will collect and extend the API metadata for GObject based libraries. The main motivation of this work is to centralize all introspection information required to … Continue reading

Posted in Blogroll, General, GNOME, olpc, PyGTK, Python | 7 Comments

Enough wakeups in Python programs

Yesterday I released two new releases of PyGObject and PyGTK. The most important change in both of releases is the support of a new API, available only in the svn version of Python which will prevent gobject and gtk from … Continue reading

Posted in Blogroll, General, GNOME, olpc, PyGTK, Python | 3 Comments

Future of GNOME language bindings

First of all, let me show you a screenshot showing what have been hacking on in my spare time over the last two weeks or so: . It’s showing a simple web browser written in python using WebKit, this is … Continue reading

Posted in Blogroll, General, GNOME, olpc, PyGTK, Python | 13 Comments

ObjectList tutorial

This blog post will give you an introduction to the ObjectList widget which is a part of the kiwi library. * Rationale Creating graphical user interfaces which displays a sequence of objects is a common task. In the GTK+ toolkit … Continue reading

Posted in Blogroll, General, GNOME, olpc, PyGTK, Python | 4 Comments

Valgrind & Andvare

Yesterday I on a bus ride from São Paulo I had the opportunity to see some of the developments tools available on OSX. Shark and mallocdebug are quite interesting, bling-bling for the developer masses. When I woke up this morning … Continue reading

Posted in Blogroll, General, GNOME, PyGTK, Python | 8 Comments

GtkBuilder has landed!

Today, after more than 2 years and 120 comments I could finally close #172535, adding support for loading interfaces created by UI designers in Gtk+. GtkBuilder replaces libglade, it uses a similar XML format but also supports the following: GtkTreeViews … Continue reading

Posted in Blogroll, General, GNOME, olpc | 15 Comments