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Yeah!! that is our current logo, it looks sooooo old, so we are starting a contest to pick a new one. If you feel brave enought to make us one, here are a few requisites for the logo:

• The logo should be under a free license compatible with gedit’s license
• The logo should be in a format editable with free tools and possibly realized with free tools
• The logo should say gedit, not Gedit or GEdit or gEdit
• The logo should be stylish but simple with not too many colors
• The logo should have a transparent background to fit in different contexts like web-pages, about dialog etc

While you are free to come up with something that looks totally new, here are some suggestions to please some of the maintainers that are going to pick the winning logo:

• We would like to avoid cartoonish logos and cartoonish fonts
• Do not simply take the text-editor icon and stick “gedit” on top 🙂
• For historical reasons we would like to keep the current dark red color

Finally, to send us your proposals, you have to send us an email with the logo to: “pborelli AT gnome DOT org”, “jessevdk AT gnome DOT org” and “icq AT gnome DOT org”

Thanks in advance.

Thanks to the great work from John Stowers we finally have updated packages of pygtk, pygobject and pycairo.

So these days we’ve been working a bit on having python plugins working on gedit, and of course we made it!!

You can download the installer from here.

Please test it and let us know which problems you find by commenting here or in the next bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584679

PS: The “External tools” plugin as you can imagin doesn’t work on windows.

One week ago I tried to implement the Direct Save protocol on gedit but for some reason I couldn’t find the way to make it work.

The releated bug is: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430798 and the patch: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=141835

For some reason when I have to get the name from file-roller, the name I get is “xds.txt” and it should return the name of the file droped from file-roller instead, kind of weird as the func I use for getting this was borrowed from nautilus. Apart from that the patch seems to work fine, it sets the url where I want to make file-roller extract the file and it is extracted ok. If anybody knows how to fix it, help would be appreciated.

This year I decided that instead of looking for a summer job in Spain, I would go to a foreign country to learn some english and to work in something different to computer engineer. So I went to Malta with some friends. There, I found a job as bartender, prostituting myself for a few € 🙂 but I think it worth it because it was really funny and I met a lot of people. As you can see in the photo bellow, that’s me in my bar of the Empire disco pub.

Apart from working all the summer, I made an English course too, it was awesome being in a room with so many people from different countries. I liked a lot that experience.

I’ve to say that I enjoyed the summer too, mainly in Malta what you have to do “every day” is going out. Going out every day you’ll find each pub or disco, full of people. The main problem is that the party ends at 4:00 as the police don’t allow to have the volume of the music loud from that time. I made some turism too, there aren’t too many places to visit, as malta is not so big but well, as you can see in the photo bellow that’s the Blue Lagoon, nice place if there wasn’t so many people.

I made a few crazy things too, one of the things was jumping to the water from a really high place. It was scaring but funny too.

In relation to free software I’ve been working on gedit like always, not too much, some bug fixing, bugzilla cleanup and so. Haven’t had too much time to invest on it. That’s something I’ll try to change as we want to make some cool things on it for the next cycles.

This week I’ve been porting gtksourcecompletion to gtksourceview, so now you can use it in  the branch gtksourcecompletion:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gtksourceview/branches/gtksourcecompletion gtksourcecompletion

Here you have a screenshot of the test case:

Congrats to everyone who made this possible!!!

Hi guys, I finally decided to switch from blogspot to this new blog. So as this is my first post, I’ll write a bit about me:

My name is Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (irc: nacho), I am 22 and I am studying Computer engineer in Galicia (Spain).

• I’ve been working for 3-4 years as the Galician Translation Coordinator and currently I left the coordination to be focused in other things that I am more interested. (Like coding applications).
• In 2007 I was a bit tired of using kbabel for translation, so I decided to write some patches to improve gtranslator, and in a crazy think I had, rewrote it from scrach to change it to GObject. I think the work I did for gtranslator was great, I learnt a lot and it was funny (sometimes not) writing it.
• In the past few months after leaving the development of gtranslator, I decided to try to improve a bit gedit (this awesome text editor we have). For the moment I helped to port gedit to windows and I made some bugfixing. Currently I am working in a framework for writings indenters for gtksourceview and I’ll try to get it ready for 2.28.

To finish this first post I wanna thank eveyone who helped me and in special Paolo Borelli who was there all this time for answering all my questions.