Author: Jeff
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PiTiVi status update for Q1 2013
Time for a little report on recent improvements in Pitivi. Nothing earth-shattering to make you drool with envy; just a lot of fixes, cleanup and improvements to small details. Next week, we will be in Milan for the GStreamer hackfest, so I’ll make sure to give you a nice report on what we managed to…
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A program's obsolescence
In 2005, I had a crazy idea upon which I started the Specto project. Initially, I thought I’d call my revolutionary piece of software WhileYouWereOut (continuing the world’s tradition of ill-chosen project names), because it really was about solving a core “want” in my life: to leave my computer alone and catch up with events…
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Retrofit d'un SSD sur ordinateur Dell Optiplex 745
Ayant finalement décidé d’acheter un disque dur «solid state» pour l’ordinateur de mes parents, j’ai été confronté au problème suivant suite à l’achat: Le disque dur précédent était tenu par un support amovible dont la particularité était de n’utiliser aucune vis, optant plutôt pour un système de tiges à ressort: C’est très bien pour les…
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Prenez garde aux tabloïdes de l'open-source
En tant que contributeur à divers logiciels libres, j’en ai marre de voir comment ils sont traités dans la « presse » en ligne. J’ai procrastiné un mois sur la publication de ce billet: le rédiger me prend déjà toute ma motivation pour combattre le sentiment de DonQuichottude par rapport au phénomène, surtout lorsque je crains d’être…
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Join us at the GStreamer Hackfest in Milan
Interested in GStreamer, PiTiVi, GES? Meet us in Milan at the end of March for the 2013 GStreamer hackfest! As you can see in this picture from last year’s hackfest, it’s tons of fun for everybody: No, really! It’s an incredibly productive and motivating event to participate in. One of the major items we would…
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Fedora 18: now keyboard-friendly to everybody
It is fashionable these days, especially for the Slashdot crowd, bloggers, kernel hackers and other people depending on “feature X that has not fully polished”, to throw mud at the efforts that have been made towards redesigning the Fedora Linux installer. When people trash the work you’ve been doing fully in the open for over…
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GNOME 3 and login performance
How about we revive the Performance wiki page and make it a goal for GNOME 3.8 (or 3.10) to finally reach our 2005-2007 target of a “3 seconds login time”? Our current login performance is pretty bad. We do way too much I/O and processing. If you write an application or service that automatically starts…
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Persistent tab states, render UX polish and other things
With some help from luisbg, I finally reworked and merged a 2-years-old patch of mine. It turned out to be less trivial than expected, because we had to change the settings backend to allow loading/reading configuration files at runtime for our dynamically-generated tab components. So, what the heck does this mean to you? Automatically saving…
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Getting Things GNOME 0.3: retour vers le futur
J’aimerais tout simplement saluer le travail de l’équipe de développement derrière GTG, mon logiciel favori (si si, logiciel favori, point final ! Il est essentiel à ma survie). Pour vous donner le contexte, j’écrivais cette note personnelle dans Tomboy en 2006, suite à la lecture de Getting Things Done: Nostalgie? Tout à fait. Maintenant, retour vers le…
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Lightworks is not anywhere close to open-source
I’ve seen everybody hail Lightworks as the messiah that will make all other open source video editors irrelevant. So far, I didn’t blog about this (because frankly, life’s too short to be pessimistic, and I was also quite curious as to how it would play out and wanted to give EditShare the benefit of the…