Author Archives: swilmet

gspell news bis

Posted on March 9, 2016 by swilmet

Some more gspell news (see the previous iteration): gspell has been re-licensed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+. gspell no longer depends on the libxml2 and GtkSourceView libraries. gspell 1.0 will be released at the same time as GNOME 3.20 (in a … Continue reading →

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Refocus

Posted on February 6, 2016 by swilmet

This is a more personal blog post. Sometimes all those GNOME programming projects are driving me crazy. These last few weeks I needed to rest (that’s why I came only one afternoon at the Developer Experience hackfest, and why I … Continue reading →

Posted in Me Myself and I | 6 Comments

Task-oriented desktop and applications?

Posted on November 22, 2015 by swilmet

I wanted to add a comment to Allan’s blog post The next big thing, but too late! comments are already closed (side note, I think it’s a general problem on blogs.gnome.org or it’s a WordPress issue, or both). So, at … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughts | 8 Comments

gspell news

Posted on November 20, 2015 by swilmet

gspell is now fully hosted on gnome.org! There is now a mailing list. In addition to LaTeXila, gspell is now also used by gedit (5,800 lines removed, yay!). The 0.1.x version has branched and is meant to be installed alongside … Continue reading →

Posted in gedit, gspell | 3 Comments

Announcing gCSVedit, a simple text editor to edit CSV files

Posted on November 3, 2015 by swilmet

As part of my job at the Université Catholique de Louvain, one of my projects is to develop gCSVedit, a small and simple text editor to edit CSV/TSV files. gCSVedit is now a free/libre software (GPLv3+ license) and is hosted … Continue reading →

Posted in gCSVedit, gedit, GtkSourceView | 7 Comments

LaTeXila 3.18 + need of a graphics designer for the app icon

Posted on October 21, 2015 by swilmet

LaTeXila 3.18 has been released last week. There are some nice improvements: New buttons in the integrated file browser (in the side panel) to open the current directory in a file manager (e.g. Nautilus) or in the terminal. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Changing quickly between a final and derivable GObject class

Posted on October 10, 2015 by swilmet

When doing code refactorings, it is sometimes desirable to change between a final and derivable GObject class. So it is important that that operation can be done quickly, as every other small refactorings that you usually do in your code. … Continue reading →

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Introducing gspell, a new spell checking library

Posted on September 16, 2015 by swilmet

As part of the LaTeXila project and its fundraiser, I’m working on a new spell checking library called gspell. Some background At first I wanted to contribute to GtkSpell so that GtkSpell and GtkSourceView work well together, without a dependency … Continue reading →

Posted in gedit, gspell, GtkSourceView, LaTeXila | 5 Comments

An introduction about writing GLib/GTK+ applications in C

Posted on May 22, 2015 by swilmet

GNOME lacks a good and recent book about writing applications and libraries. I was motivated, some months ago, to write such a book. But this motivation has dissipated somehow, I don’t think I’m the right person. Anyway, here is my … Continue reading →

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Fundraiser campaign for LaTeXila

Posted on March 25, 2015 by swilmet

It was already possible to make a donation for LaTeXila since March 2014. There was just a link on the web site and an entry in the Help menu. But I made almost no advertising for that. Now for the … Continue reading →

Posted in LaTeXila | 9 Comments