2008
Managing bug lists has become an ubiquitous task when dealing with the
GNOME or Nokia bugzillas. At some point I became fed up with the involved
cut and pasting, searching and sorting, so I cooked up a small…
Two weeks ago, Bruce Byfield did an interview with me about Manju. The
article is now up at linux.com and gives a general overview of the project
scope: Manju Project Article. There’s also been a German…
Andreas Nilsson and I recently started the Manju project which aims at
creating graphical widget toolkit themes from SVG files in a toolkit independent
fashion. It combines the idea of a pixmap theme engine…
Guadec has been in interesting conference, particularly because it took
place in Istanbul this year. I tried to keep a few notes throughout the
days to wrap up the experience and discussions here. Sunday Headed…
Every other week, someone asks how to use the new unit testing framework
in GLib (released with GLib-2.16.0) and Gtk+ (to be released with the next
stable). First, here is a write-up from last December that…
The XML GUI definition files used in Rapicorn and also in Beast (described
briefly in an earlier blog post) supported a simple $(function,arguments…)
evaluation syntax, similar to GNU Make. I’ve never been…
Just like LinuxTag last year, I went to Berlin the past week to help running
the Gnome booth for LinuxTag 2008. Due to a sports accident, our booth
bunny Sven Herzberg unfortunately couldn’t make it, so on…
Amongst many other things during the Gtk+ Hackfest 2008, it was brought
to my attention that Gtk+ maintainership is sometimes perceived as some
kind of leet circle, hard to join for newcomers. I can’t really…
Rapicorn 8.4.0 has just been released to the world: Rapicorn v8.4.0 Announcement
Lots of things have happened since the last snapshot over a year ago, some
of which kept me from making releases or snapshots…
There have been several requests about hosting Gtk+ (and GLib) as a Git
repository recently and since that topic has come up more and more often,
I meant to write about this for quite some time. Let’s first…
I finally got around to fix a long-standing and tricky bug report: Bug
64764 - Class initialization isn’t thread safe. Thread safety problems
in class initializers and _get_type() functions caused nasty…