Category: Planet GNOME
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Son 5.1, Ubuntu 8.04, PulseAudio
Zalors, maintenant que j’ai une carte son intégrée décente (chipset Intel HD audio, ICH9) avec six prises, j’ai donc installé, enfin, un kit de hauts-parleurs 5.1 sur ma machine. Étonnamment, avec PulseAudio, c’est pas difficile. Il suffit de lui spécifier qu’on a six canaux (par défaut, sa configuration considère qu’on en a deux), en modifiant…
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Profiling Specto (and whole Python applications in general)
A few months ago (when we still thought we were about to release 0.3 “real soon now” ;), I noticed that Specto is noticeably slow to start up, even on warm starts (when it is not the first time you launch it). It always takes at least 6 seconds to paint the list of watches…
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Sunbird 0.9 et la situation des logiciels de calendrier
Sunbird 0.9 est sorti, avec son petit lot d’améliorations (une version précompilée est disponible sur getdeb. Même les dépôts d’Ubuntu 9.04 ne possèdent pas la dernière version). Si vous ne connaissez pas Sunbird, eh bien c’est la réponse Mozilla à la prière de ceux qui voulaient une application de calendrier dédiée (à la iCal) qui…
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Recent Documents
Did you know? Not clearing your recent documents periodically in GNOME means your whole desktop responsiveness suffers. Ugliest performance bug. Ever. On my laptop, ~/.recently-used.xbel weighted 4.8 MiB, and totalled 99 928 lines! In this file, I had entries dating back 2007-04-03; that’s just about one year of useless history. I will now be able…
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gnome-schedule 2.0 is out
Congratulations to Gaute Hope for making a splendid 2.0 release, with all of my user interface complaints resolved and my slightly better French translations 🙂 I can only hope that Bug 509233 gets resolved soon now. For those of you who do not fear my compilation skills, I created a package for ubuntu 7.10 with…
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The state of video editors 4 years later
I started using Ubuntu Linux as my desktop near the end of 2004 and tried to help the PiTiVi project, because it was the most promising video editor project out there. Not a lot has happened since. Well yes, a lot has happened on the gstreamer front. PiTiVi is a nice video player now (sorry).…