30 Oct 2006

October 30, 2006 General No Comments

gswitchit-plugins

Made another release of plugins, for GNOME 2.16. The funny
thing is that the word “gswitchit” does not mean anything
anymore (from GNOME 2.17.2 onward) – but the plugins are
here to stay. One of the purposes is to be the simplest
answer on the eternal question “how to replace labels with
flags”. If not this, I might have already dropped this
subproject.

planet.gnome.org

Another attempt (again, thanks to Alexandre Prokoudine) to
propose my hackergotchi:

Jeff, could you use it please?

23 Oct 2006

October 23, 2006 General No Comments

Angry

My internet connection this weekend sucked, big time (no
thanks to chorus.ie – entire Cork area shares my grief). I
was able to access nearly nothing (and it is still remains
that way). As a consequence, did not manage to fix jhbuild
in time. Elijah, thanks for doing it for me.

19 Oct 2006

October 19, 2006 General No Comments

libgnomekbd

Yesterday, as a possible act of suicide;), I finally
committed a huge chunk of libgnomekbd-related changes to
gnome-control-center and gnome-applets. Expecting a lot of
bug reports.

Next stop: gnome-screensaver.

xkeyboard-config

Nearly every time I work with modifier-related bugs, I have
2 seconds of real hatred to XKB-ignorant apps. Especially
and mostly emacs.

BTW, if someone is interested in next year’s Google Summer
of Code project ideas, here is a couple of good ones:

  • versatile protocol level debugger for X
  • putting traces into xkb code in Xorg: xkbcomp, X server,
    libxkbfile

  • valgrinding and unit testing of XKB code in Xorg

16 Oct 2006

October 16, 2006 General No Comments

libgnomekbd

Finally, gnome-applets are branched. Thanks, Davyd, for the
help – and hurray! Immediately after 2.17.1 is out, I am
going to commit libgnomekbd-related stuff to gnome-applets,
gnome-control-center, gnome-screensaver (finally getting rid
of CVS virtual modules libgswitchit and libkbdraw).

Spent several hours yesterday improving GkbdConfigRegistry
DBUS interface and running unit tests on libgnomekbd. Found
a couple of minor bugs in libgnomekbd and libxklavier (fixed
version to be released soon). The good thing is that both
APIs seem to be pretty stable at that point (new version of
libxklavier works fine even with GNOME 2.16).

10 Oct 2006

October 10, 2006 General No Comments

xkeyboard-config etc

Now that release 0.9 is out,
I am going to put xkeyboard-config into background mode
(except for Japanese
keyboard bug) and commit
libgnomekbd/gnome-applets/gnome-control-center/gnome-screensaver
stuff into 2.17. Not earlier than Davyd branches
gnome-applets though… 😉
Also, a release of gswitchit-plugins for 2.16 is long overdue.

09 Oct 2006

October 9, 2006 General No Comments

libgnomekbd

Separating gnome keyboard-related code into separate library
finally allowed me to approach long outstanding bug
in gnome-screensaver. That is what I currently see on my laptop:



Sure, in vanilla GNOME there won’t be any flags, only labels.