Here are more random tidbits that I forgot to add in my
GUADEC summary:

• While working
  on some icons for gnumeric, Tigert had set his
  desktop background to display an ocean image (I think it was
  this
  one or something similar). On top of that, there was
  xfishtank using the shape extension. Well, I could not
  believe how many people came and asked “hey, you have a cool
  background, what program did you use to do that?”

• Wacom has probably sold a few more tablets by now, after
  some people saw how easy it is to use the GIMP with these
  nice tools (and Tigert is very good at demonstrating that).
  The support for pressure and tilt really makes a difference.

• The presentation of Pango and the plans for
  GTK+ 1.4 were very interesting. As a kind of joke, I
  asked Owen if GTK+ would support UNICODE for the name of its
  internal signals. The answer was no, of course. Think
  about how you would read some source code containing signal
  names in Japanese, Greek, Arabic and so on… Wouldn’t that
  be fun? (err… no!)

• Nautilus can be extended to support more file formats
  (for creating thumbnails or viewing some files inside the
  Nautilus shell). I think it uses bonobo components for
  that. It would be very cool if the GIMP plug-ins could be
  used in Nautilus. Many plug-ins have been written to
  support exotic file formats and it would be nice to be able
  to use them in other GNOME applications. But bonobizing the
  plug-ins should not be considered until after the GIMP 1.2
  release.

• Some people use gmc and like it. Really!
• Considering how much some hackers were drinking at the
  HelixCode party, it is good that none of them were drowned
  in
  the Seine (the party was on a boat). Or maybe the corpses
  haven’t been found yet…

Hmm… I will probably add more later, when I
remember…