If there would be a place where OSS folks could register most shameful things about our development process, that bug would be the first I submit. Shame on you, Firefox people! 6.5 years for a bug with that level of visibility.
Yesterday, my older son wanted to send MP3 file to his mobile over bluetooth, from my shared (DAAP) library. Rhythmbox could not help. So it was a good excuse to show him bugzilla.gnome.org (and provide another bit of Free Software propaganda, of course:)
GUADEC was just great. I met a lot of interesting people – some of them I knew by email/IRC for some while, so it was interesting to “devirtualize” them. Huge thanks to organizers, everything was perfect (well, may be except the WiFi connection). Thanks to the sponsors. Thanks to everyone who attended. I really do regret I could only visit the Core part.
Unfortunately I will be able to join the GUADEC party as late as tomorrow night. For 3 days only. Still, I am going to have a great time in Birmingham.
While I was traveling through the beauties of Connemara, Nokia released new firmware for n800. Great, of course (gratitude attached). But why is everybody so excited about skype availability? It seems people forget that it is absolutely proprietary technology – from top to bottom. And the saddest thing that skype.com has already put “VOIP=Skype” cliche in many many minds. Just go to the nearest computer store – you’ll find a lot of headsets with the Skype logo over them – and you’ll hardly find a salesman who knows what SIP is. That is dangerous (it is a very hard case of the vendor lock!), and now, with this release, n800 helps these guys. Would it be better if Nokia supplied decent SIP client working out of the box (gizmoproject helps to some extent but it is not installed by default)?
So, thanks to Jeff, planet.gnome.org is using my new blog now and I got my hackergotchi set up.
GUADEC
So, I got British visa – which means I’ll be there!
Unfortunately, my stay (in the Etap hotel BTW) will be
short: Monday night to Thursday night. But I hope it is
going to be great anyway. Especially, I am looking forward
to meeting some people which I only know by email/IRC.
See you all there!
GNOME
During discussion with murrayc on IRC, it was found the
position of GNOME regarding the dynamic library versioning
is somewhat wague.
Now I wonder, does GNOME respect libtool
versioning scheme or not?
Keyboard
Slowly, I am starting to enrich base.xml with additional
meta-information (and use it in gnome-keyboard-properties).
As a first step, I’ve added non-translatable (who would
translate “Microsoft” to Russian anyway?) vendor name. The
model choser on my HDD looks like this:
Thanks to GObject (namely, g_object_set_data), the
libxklavier
ABI will not change, while API will get a set
of #defines.
PS. Richard,
it is not a problem to automate chosing XKB model using HAL.
All you need is a table mapping USB (or any other HIDdy bus)
IDs to XKB model names. And a bit of code in g-s-d.
PPS. And it seems I will never ever ever ever get my
hackergotchi setup on p.g.o.