Wed 01 Sep 2004
September 1, 2004
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games: We bought Pikmin 2 tonight. Zana promptly beat me in multi-player mode while claiming to be unable to figure out the keys. Very sneaky!
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filechooser: Ellipsizing cell renderers now works well in GTK+-HEAD. I put a screenshot of the filechooser using this at http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/fileselellipse.png
We really need to get tooltips on rows going now.
Sun 29 Aug 2004
August 29, 2004
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fans: As heard on irc: “<defendguin> you dont blog enough to be a distraction.”
Mon 23 Aug 2004
August 23, 2004
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life: It was a nice day today, so I did what I always seem to do on such nice days; I huddled in the basement fiddling with firewall rules.
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car: I took my Saturn in to the dealership to get its 100,000 mile service. It was the first time in a while that I’ve stayed in the dealership for the duration of the service, instead of getting a ride. They now have wireless network support, which is a nice bonus. However, the bowl of jelly donuts and bananas is now gone. I’m not sure which I’d prefer.
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crossword: We finished the Saturday prize puzzle! We’re definitely improving.
Thu 19 Aug 2004
August 19, 2004
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kerberos: I was helping Chris Aillon work on a Kerberos renewel dialog for GNOME this week. It’s checked into CVS as krb5-auth-dialog, though I imagine we’d make it part of some other package in the future. The dialog has taken surprisingly long to do, in large part because kerberos isn’t translated at all. I would really loathe to ship a dialog that pops up every ten hours with an untranslated string.
Unfortunately, to do this properly, we will need to get kerberos upstream to use gettext, and modify a lot of kerberos code. I don’t know if the upstream maintainers are interested in such a patch, but we’ll try to convince them of its necessity.
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travels: Rosanna and I went back to Pasadena for a wedding over the weekend. My friends Sarah and Cameron got married after dating for twelve years, and we are all very happy for them. It was a casual affair; set in a garden with a Hawaiian theme. Everyone was handed an orchid lei upon arrival, and there was a sushi bar. It was good fun meeting a lot of old school friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen in fifteen years.
On the flight back, we did the NY Times cryptic. It was refreshing to do a crossword with more American cultural references, as opposed to the British ones I’m used to. The clues were definitely easier, though, so I think we’ll stick to the London Times for now.
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English: It’s really useful to be married to a grammarian.
Sat 31 Jul 2004
July 31, 2004
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helpfulness: Here are the instructions on the package of the replacement flap for our dog door:
1. Remove Pet Door from door.
2. Remove the hardware across the top of the door and remove flap.
3. Reverse process.
Fri 30 Jul 2004
July 30, 2004
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gtk: I finished my GtkTreeView typeahead patch earlier this week and posted it to gtk-devel-list. I also backported it to gtk+-2.4.4 and built it into rawhide. It requires installing ‘–nodeps’ for fc2, but seems work nicely.
It makes using the filechooser a better experience and is good for lists in general. It could be a little bit better, though. I’m tempted to include a new signal for it that lets applications know when the entry was activated, so that selecting a directory would change it immediately instead of setting the cursor. Alternatively, we could expose the entry to applications, though I’m less happy with that approach. I could also special case it in the FileChooser and not worry about other applications. Either way, it’s much closer to the original vision of the FileChooser, and will hopefully make some of the grumbling about the lack of an entry go away.
Tue 27 Jul 2004
July 27, 2004
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FIRE: The grill just caught fire! There were flames everywhere, and I had to grab a pitcher of water from the kitchen to put it out! Some leaves apparently blew into the control space in front, and they combusted sending flames directly into that space. I think the knobs are fried, and the paint is peeling.
Bratwurst just doesnt taste the same when cooked in the kitchen.
Sat 24 Jul 2004
July 24, 2004
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mime: Dave Camp, Ray Strode and I spent last week struggling with the MIME system. We made some headway (or at least managed to get a release out). Next week, we tackle monitoring. And fixing bugs. And ABI problems.
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shadows: After chatting with Matthias last week, I decided to try to put together a visual index for the GTK+ docs. The current index is quite overwhelming, and not that useful. This would simply be an image of widgets linking to their location in the docs. I wrote a quick little program based on the hig-shooter/screenshooter to take these screenshots on Friday and put up some shots at http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/viogw/
I haven’t written the index yet, and indeed, I should do a few more widgets before putting it up. We might want to also include a screenshot in the header of each widget page.
Anders also contributed a drop shadow routine giving a nice appearance to the images. I took the shadow code, and added it to gnome-panel-screenshot (bug #148367). I need to update the hig-shooter next.
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sports: What a Wild Red Sox game on TV today.
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drinks: Zana made a gallon of sweet tea earlier this week. It was great to drink while working on the MIME code. She rocks!!
Tue 13 Jul 2004
July 13, 2004
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Weekend: Our library (http://www.gpl.org) has museum pass program. Rosanna and I spent a lovely day at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. I enjoyed the maritime exhibits. They also had a pretty impressive collection of export art. We then went to Gloucester for dinner.
Tue 22 Jun 2004
June 22, 2004
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bad dog: Dogs should not be barking at 5:30 in the morning. Jester has been duly chastised. Gotta try to get back to sleep.
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bugs: I found a cute bug in the control-center yesterday. The only way that gnome-window-properties has worked at all in the past (if it worked) is through relying on malloc reusing the same block that was freed. That is to say, after calling:
g_free (struct->value); struct->value = g_strdup (str);
it relied on struct->value pointing to the same block of memory, now with different contents. It’s been this way for over two years.
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Running: I went to Cambridge this past weekend to help some friends compete in the Boston Urban Challenge. They took fourth, which was a very good finish and good enough to qualify them for the next round in Miami.
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Travel: I misplaced my Green Card earlier this week. I was worried about making GUADEC but Zana went above the call of duty and sorted through the papers on my desk to find it.
