Author: Jeff
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Searching your Media Library
Although my changes were implemented back in December, I had to wait until they were merged today to blog about them: searching the Media Library is now possible in PiTiVi git, which is a feature I wanted for a long time (it makes it much easier to deal with large amounts of footage in a…
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SFLphone translators and package maintainers needed
I’d like to take a minute to tell you about one of the apps I’ve been passionately using. It is probably one of the lesser-known, fly-under-the-radar stealth ninja killer apps that just deserves some serious kudos and some publicity on Planet GNOME. SFLphone is an open source SIP and IAX2 (Asterisk) VoIP softphone. Except that this…
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88 watts per hour
Surprisingly enough, it seems that GNOME Power Manager does not handle time paradoxes properly. If you run GNOME on a DeLorean or have your computer clock go back in time, it seems that g-p-m’s statistics does not take this into account, and draws… interesting graphs: I was about to file a bug report on this…
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Reorganizing the wiki
Since there doesn’t seem to be much demand for video tutorials on “how to contribute to PiTiVi”, I have been thinking about how to reorganize the wiki. Indeed, a comment on my previous blog post made me realize how hopelessly messy our documentation for new contributors was. I pictured myself as a stranger to the…
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Boom! Headshot!
Vous vous souvenez peut-être de «sniper Jeff» circa 2002 dans «Un cri dans la commune» avec son fidèle trépied «K-SR02» (Kiddo’s Sniper Rifle, 2002 edition): Ou encore dans «Un cri dans la commune 2» avec son K-SR03 (dérivé de M4 pour enfant): En général, le jour de l’an, on festoie avec nos êtres aimés et…
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Evolution et l'utilisation avancée du IMAP GMail
GMail peut être utilisé à travers IMAP de deux façons: le mode à la Google, où supprimer un message ne fait que retirer le libellé correspondant (et s’il ne reste plus de libellés, le message est «archivé», et donc placé dans «Tous les messages»), et le mode avancé, qu’il faut activer dans les «labos». Mais…
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Migration vers un hébergeur professionnel
J’ai initié le serveur Kirika en 2003, comme moyen d’héberger mes sites Internet (et ceux de mes amis) sans restriction d’espace, sans publicité et sans avoir à débourser autre chose que du temps et de l’énergie. J’ai appris énormément grâce à ce projet. En fait, c’est probablement une des principales raisons pourquoi je suis rendu…
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Solid State Drives: V-TEC just kicked in, yo!
Je ne le cache pas, je suis fan des SSD; ainsi, quand un certain zinzin est venu me voir en me disant «mon disque dur de laptop est mort, now what?», je n’ai pas hésité à suggérer de passer à la vitesse grand V. Nous sommes donc allés acheter un disque dur solid state Kingston…
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Community involvement
Although PiTiVi is a FLOSS project developed entirely in the open (that is, everything is public/transparent), I have been told that it still feels intimidating for potential new contributors. Believe it or not, I spend a lot of time thinking about that and smoothing out that process. Sometimes I still find myself a bit surprised…
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New project settings and rendering UI
It’s no secret that PiTiVi‘s “project settings” and “rendering” dialogs were huge, rigid, and, as Linus would have called them, stupid and ugly: …Until now, that is. Say hi to one of the most invasive and anticipated refactoring/set of bugfixes of the year: Brandon’s new templates/project settings/rendering system (which he blogged about recently [1] [2]…