Tag gnome
Splash screen
The splash screen contest has come and gone. Some (like me) like the splash, and others don’t. I agree with Nat’s comments about the splash being uninteresting to users, but I still like it. Perhaps a list of finalists with a short frame of time to express opinions about the chosen splashes would have been better (suggested by Andrew Johnson today), but we can learn from this and maybe we can do that next time.
Theme Spec
I was talking to Thomas Wood and Andrew Johnson on IRC today and found out that Thomas has a spec he has come up with for a GNOME Theme Format. To me, it makes sense: make a standard format, give it an mime-type, add that to the shared-mime-info mime-type definitions and then allow gnome-theme-manager to open them from the command line so you can double click on them in Nautilus (or even come up with a Nautilus context menu entry for them).
Another day…
For some reason, the last two days have dragged on like no other. It seems like I’ve been at work for 9 hours and it’s only 11:55 AM. And now I get to babysit an FTP script for the rest of the week. What a thrill!! Coaster I emailed the libburn list yesterday about the problem with Coaster crashing. Now we wait… Bounties I’m glad to see the GNOME bounties are back.
Damage Control…
Last night I played softball and got a cool oozing rasberry on my lower right leg. It was beautiful, but it hurt like no other. When I got home, my mom (yes, I live with my parents… it’s cheap!), God bless her, helped me get it all professionally wrapped and cleaned up (boy, it hurt getting all the little pieces of gravel out). This got me thinking: mom’s do a heck of a lot for us.
Finality…
Today is the day. The GNOME Platform Bindings 2.6 release is today. Murray already has the c++ bindings tarballs released and ready to go, and I’m working on ebuilds for breakmygentoo.net. I’ve been working on Coaster’s GUI pretty heavily lately, and harshy has the new website up. I hope to get a release out of the GUI soon, and hopefully we’ll have a working version sometime in the next few months.
2.4.0 releases… soon…
I’m really excited because the upcoming GNOME Platform Bindings release on April 5th April 12th. Murray has all the tarballs ready to go for the release candidate, he’s just waiting on the GNOME servers to get back up to normal after the little fiasco we had last week. With these releases and the solidification of Bakery on the UIManager API, I will start porting and uploading my changes to Coaster’s arch for the user interface.
Coaster
Yes, that’s right, Coaster. The GNOME CD burning application that harshy, I, and company (everyone that’s in #coaster on irc.gimp.org) are working on. Development will now resume on it since Gtkmm 2.4 is under API freeze. This next week (while I’m away) I’m going to work on getting Coaster to use bakery 2.4 and bakery_gnomeui 2.0 (both use *mm 2.4/2.6). This is exciting because the guys at breakmygentoo.net are excited about Coaster and can’t wait to see the finished product.
Gnome 2.6 Beta 1
Ok, so I gave in (the wait was killing me) and upgraded to Gnome 2.6 beta 1 using breakmygentoo.net ebuilds and a patch of my own devising (which I have submitted to Matt of bmg) for gtk+-2.3.6 which fixes some issues that will be fixed in 2.3.7 (mostly FileChooser stuff). And except for an < %popup(20040318-quicklounge-wrong.png|192|41|issue)%> with the Quick Lounge applet, it works! Just in case there was any doubt, I really really like it.