Mon 03 Mar 2003

  • GTK+: Spent a couple days this week getting the GtkTreeView to work in a RTL locale. It was the last major widget in need of support added – though it showed some RTL bugs in other widgets. As an added bonus, I also got column expanding working, which should make Seth very happy. I’m pretty excited at how well it worked, though we need to do a bit more work to be fully RTL compliant. It would be a good target for 2.4.

  • Mime: I’m now tasked with fixing the mime-system in GNOME. fun.

  • Life: Had a very pleasant day with Rosanna. We went on a walk with the dog down the Bolin Creek trail. It was a wonderful 60 degrees outside, and though it kept threatening to rain, it never quite did. It was a good change from ice storms. We also saw some bird houses painted Carolina blue. Zana correctly guessed they were Eastern Bluebird houses. Two points to her. We ended up walking to Cafe Driade along the way. They have simply the best Cappucino in the Chapel Hill area.

Fri 14 Feb 2003

  • Life: I’m going to ask for a transfer to the Red Hat office in Massachussetts. There are a lot of little reasons for asking for this change. None of them are quite big enough to push the move by itself, but as a whole, they add up to being quite compelling. I’m going to miss a lot about living down here (mostly people), but I’m not going to miss the Commute. Simply put, I was spending eight to ten hours a week in my car. My waking hours are too precious for that. Once I’d decided to move, asking for the transfer became a lot easier.