Category Archives: General

As others have alread commented, the new tablet is now out. But I’m a software guy, so I’ll talk about the software it runs and let others dissect the hardware. As Michael says we had to break the API to … Continue reading →

I always like to read others people hacking tips, mostly because I suck a lot at using any tool correctly and I am almost always enlightened by them. Today I’ll try to contribute one small trick to the pool. I … Continue reading →

Ok, there’s something to play with now for the very early adopters: Checkout Epiphany trunk (http://svn.gnome.org/svn/epiphany/trunk/) Apply the patch on bug 459333 Checkout WebKit trunk (http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk) Build and install the GTK port: cd WebKit WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit –qmakearg=WEBKIT_INC_DIR=$PREFIX/include/WebKit –qmakearg=WEBKIT_LIB_DIR=$PREFIX/lib –gdk cd WebKitBuild/Release … Continue reading →

The next image has made a big splash today in Spain: It’s a satire about our Prince and Princess being extremely happy about the new 2500 euro per newborn the government has announced, because it will be the closest thing … Continue reading →

As jdub would say: crack now, analysis later.

It’s been one week now since I switched to the dvorak layout, the main reasons for it being a preemptive strike on RSI and the desire of going through a formal touch typing training without the vices of many years … Continue reading →

After a very productive GTK+ Meeting yesterday I’ve voluntereed to resurrect the Weekly Bug Reports (like this) with the aim of improving the rotting patch scenario of gtk+’s bugzilla. So, if you have GTK+ patches waiting for review in bugzilla, … Continue reading →

Tommi is now officially one of the few and proud GtkMenu experts (you touch it you own it). Send your condolence letters and GtkMenu questions to: Tommi Komulainen Pit of Despair, GtkMenu Section (Bottom) Helsinki, Finland

Finally spent some time adding the search functionality for gtk-look.el, you can check my ugly hack here (the new function is gtk-lookup-search-symbol). Used the O’Reilly book Writing GNU Emacs Extensions as an introduction to the subject, and had lots of … Continue reading →

Sent a proposal to improve the situation for GTK+ wannabe-maintainers. Didn’t get much feedback, but we’ll probably meet again this thursday from 18:00 UTC+2 at #gtk-love/irc.gimp.org. Would be specially interested in getting volunteers to get the “GTK+ hackers guide” started … Continue reading →