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…