Tag: GNOME
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Naming schemes
A question has been bugging me for some time: what’s the reasoning behind the dconf hierarchy/naming scheme as can be seen in dconf-editor? org.gnome.*, org.gtk.*, ca.desrt.*, org.freedesktop.* … okay, I get that those are meant to look like reversed URLs, that part makes sense… but not as much when you have desktop.gnome.*, desktop.gstreamer.*, apps.*, a11y.*…
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GNOME Women: work on Pitivi!
Do you love Python (or C)? Interested in video editing? Then you should definitely consider working on PiTiVi as part of the GNOME Outreach Programme for Women! Feel free to email me or Thibault about it, or catch us on IRC (some details about the program and how to get in touch with us are…
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Boston Summit in Not Boston
This week-end: Trapped Olivier Crète and Guillaume Desmottes into fixing their stack to make video/audio calls work again in Empathy 3.2 Spoke at length with Robert Ancell at the Collabora party on Sunday. Good to have an elaborate counter-argument to Matthew Garrett’s famous rebuttal of LightDM: it seems that Robert wishes to make it a…
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Pitivi's startup time
So, since it seems everybody’s been talking about startup time these days, I’ll admit I tend to secretly obsess over that too. Well, it’s not so secret given that I’ve blogged about profiling work on Specto and PiTiVi before… anyway. I believe you should provide your developers with the fastest computers to do the development,…
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Improving GNOME PackageKit on big screens
In the same vein as my don’t make me scroll post, I sent a couple of patches Richardwards to, among other things, solve one of the biggest itches I had with gpk: the fact that I had to care about sizing it up constantly on my 1920×1200 24″ monitor. Before, if you started gpk-application (or the…
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Various performance and usability improvements in PiTiVi
I have been attending the Desktop Summit since the opening on Saturday, and it’s been a great experience reconnecting with familiar faces and meeting new ones. Tomorrow, the PiTiVi and GES hackfest officially begins, in room “1.308/2” (the building is at 24 Dorotheen Straße). Come join us at any time of the day (and since…
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I really want to show icons
Okay, so GNOME/GTK+ doesn’t show icons on buttons anymore unless they are part of a toolbar or you specifically request that they show up. The problem is that because of this, PiTiVi’s play/pause button would end up not showing anything at all. Thus, back then Alessandro inserted this piece of code to force displaying icons on all buttons…
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PiTiVi and GES hackfest
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…
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Evolution's calendar: looking for love
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…
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Don't make me scroll
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…