Category: Planet GNOME
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Autohiding fullscreen toolbar, error dialogs and file format filtering
Here’s one of the reasons why I’m not exactly in a hurry to learn C. When you ask me to read through C code, this is what happens: No jokes. Even after simplifying and compacting the code, it’s still such a pain for me to navigate through C that I actually felt the need to output…
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Reducing our core apps' software inventory
In my free time, I try to help other open source projects get rid of accumulated weight from the years. At GUADEC 2012, I told the Epiphany devs that the 3.x series (with its new design direction/vision and the gradually improving WebKitGTK backend) would be the perfect opportunity to close massive amounts of old bug…
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YouTube considered harmful
This morning, there was a nice surprise waiting for me in my inbox: apparently Dragons Dream infringes “La Red”‘s copyright. Bullshit. My video does not infringe on anything. It is a pure mashup of Elephants Dream and Sintel. No other music, sounds or visuals were used. Yet, they claim that the visuals belong to La Red (whatever/whoever…
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Why you should be using GES
Thanks to our friends from Ubicast, there is a nice recording of the talk I gave with Thibault in San Diego. Unlike what the title says, this is actually not a case study 🙂 it is aimed at those of you who are wondering what GES is all about, why it matters, how it works, and…
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Ducknapping
Following up on Seif’s blog post, I would like to provide you with an update on our efforts to recover the missing duck. We’ve been in a very delicate situation lately. It turns out that a group of hacktivists kidnapped Duckie! They sent us this picture: As you can imagine, until now we refrained from…
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GUADEC talk video published
No no no, I said video, Not videos. Seems like even though I spent hours editing and rendering a single recording, I’ve still beat the GUADEC organizers when it comes to “time to publish” 😉 My “neko edit” also has good sound quality (from a dedicated USB microphone) and high resolution versions of the slides…
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Staring into the Axis' Abyss: the Railgun map
This blog post will not be picked up by the usual news sites. News sites don’t care about positive things, it is much more interesting to talk about impending doom. Don’t get me wrong, it is quite healthy and necessary to talk about these things, but it is also an opportunity for haters to come…
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What the duck?!
During the mini PiTiVi hackfest a Coruña, René and I fought valiantly to get our beloved video editor working through GObject introspection. It was much to my delight that Vivia Nikolaidou kindly lent me her beloved debugging duck (much better than debugging symbols!) to facilitate our efforts. She let it sit by my Thinkpad and…
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State of the Onion
You haven’t truly lived until you have seen nekohayo present at GUADEC. Still, it should be safer than the GNOME State of the Union talk.
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Back from Hong Kong
It’s too bad that the GNOME Asia summit in HK was so short and that I had to leave early on the last day of the conference. I wish I had more time to interact with the local community and to discuss with the design team some of the (anti)patterns that matter/appeal to me. I’d like…