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  • PiTiVi and GES hackfest

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    The pitivi project will be having a hackfest at the Desktop Summit this year. Planning details should appear on this page (the exact time and location are still to be determined). Have a really cool feature you’d like to add but would like some help with? A complex UX/design issue you’d like to discuss? Want…

  • Evolution's calendar: looking for love

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    It just occured to me that since I’m on Planet GNOME, I can shamelessly bribe people into fixing bugs in exchange for beer and cheese and whatnot. Wanna get drunk at the Desktop Summit this year? Then please fix these trivial-yet-infuriating usability issues that have been preventing me from using Evolution‘s calendar for years: Drag…

  • Don't make me scroll

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    Let me tell you about a small usability improvement in Pitivi that might provide some inspiration to others. See, I hate scrolling. Unless it’s absolutely necessary and the dialog is bigger than my screen’s height or you expect to tile windows vertically, as an application developer you should avoid scrolling when possible. 2024 edit: a…

  • Specto 0.4 released

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    I’ve been holding off a Specto release for way too long. See my previous post on the matter for some insights into why Specto 0.4 was released after Duke Nukem Forever. This development hell streak ends today. If there are still people out there using this piece of software, go grab the new tarball. Distro…

  • Post LGM 2011

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    This is a late flashback of what happened last month when I attended Libre Graphics Meeting. Yes, that was weeks ago (procrastination, work and pitivi ate all my time) so I’ll keep this short. Hung around with great, passionate people. Had a couple of them “couch surf” at my place. Great conversations ensued. The LGM…

  • PiTiVi pre-release

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    Since Thibault has not been re-added to Planet GNOME yet and we’re in a bit of a hurry (deadline is Tuesday), let me “retweet” a slightly edited version of his announcement: The whole PiTiVi team is pleased to announce a pre-release of the PiTiVi video editor. This pre-release contains the past 7 months of work,…

  • See you at LGM!

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    I’ll be giving an epic talk on Pitivi and video editing in Linux in general at Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in Montréal, this Wednesday from 17h00 to 17h30. Since it is the sequel to the 2009 talk, this one will probably focus less on technical aspects in order to avoid repeating myself, but those of you…

  • Negotiating Performance

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    If you do more than basic video editing, you may have experienced those infamous “not-negotiated” errors, one of the most annoying current issues in pitivi. Users run into not-negotiated errors when there are transitions, gaps in the timeline, and effects that require compositing (such as the “alpha” filter) fail to work properly. Sometimes, if you keep…

  • On Cantarell

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    There was something bothering me with Evolution in GNOME 3 that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Turns out it was Cantarell, the official font for GNOME 3. While both the Droid family (Droid Sans/Serif/Mono) and Cantarell were “designed for on-screen reading”, I find Droid Sans to be much better than Cantarell for small…

  • GNOME 3.0's RAM usage

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    …is surprisingly low. Unlike what some people would make you believe, GNOME Shell & friends don’t eat 883 MB of RAM. As you can see below, baseline memory usage is under 120 MB… And you know what? That’s less than the amount of memory that GNOME 2.30 uses on startup on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (127…