(This is, more or less, a continuation of the previous entry) Jono writes enthusiastically about the CSS theme engine work, and I would love to share his excitement. But I just can’t see it making a big difference. Don’t get me wrong, Rob’s work is fantastic and might lead to some very interes...

I have here three pointers into the ether.with apologies to rubén daríoA conversation between Dave Moon, Dan Weinreb, and Cliff Click on Azul, a massive multiprocessor Java machine.The Azul is a Java machine like the Symbolics that Moon and Weinreb worked on was a Lisp machine. Easily the most int...

Until now, since 7.04, a new Kiwi Linux was released within days of a major Ubuntu launch, slightly deriving the original image for an even easier experience for newbies, Windows refugees and Romanian and Hungarian speakers.With 8.10 however I broke this habit for a few reasons. I had much less free...

New SVN repo for evolution-mapi provider is created : ** svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-mapi ** This repo has : 1. MAPI Account setup e-plugin. 2. libexchangemapi - Backend code for talking to server using openchange’s libmapi. 3. Evolution Data Server backends for addressbook and calendar. 4. ...

Is there a way to launch gconfd to apply only to one program? The Metacity test suite needs to see whether various keystrokes work for a given binding, but I don’t want to change them in the actual host environment!

The glamour shot of ScreenRuler somehow became the #1 image result for “ruler� in Google. That leads to 400 untargeted visitors per day, so I put a link to ubuntu.com up at the top of the landing page to try to capitalize on it.  What if 1 in 1000 give Ubuntu a try? I know, I know— [...]

Since yesterday I'm in Boston attending to the Sugar Camp. Today was dedicated to collaboration. I made two talks. The first one was an overview of the collaboration framework, how we use Telepathy in Sugar, etc. The second one was about our plan to improve Telepathy integration into Sugar and the c...

Just a quick note to let you all know that I am still looking for a fourth horseman or horsewoman to join Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro and I. The role involves reporting on the progress and growth of the Ubuntu translations community, growing and expanding the community, working with LoCo teams and ...

My current desktop PC has an RS790-based Radeon on-board graphics controller. It also has a Radeon X1900 plugged in. Playing with my Watts Up, I found that the system was (at idle!) drawing around 35W more power with the X1900 than with the on-board graphics.This is clearly less than ideal.Recent Ra...

Andreas writes about some of the work going into the GTK CSS Engine. “Back at GUADEC in Birmingham, when Garrett proposed using css-markup for widget themes, I thought it sounded a bit too cracky to be doable. Rob’s recent work, however, looks really sweet and since every designer and his mo...

I took a look at CloudFront today. They have really good intentions. The CDN space is quite a mess -- it could easily be a pay-as-you-go, self-service industry. However, players such as Akamai try to make a large profit. The CDN space is especially hard for small sites -- you can't get any reasonabl...

With Olav’s help, I have now moved both www.gnome.org/projects/ and developer.gnome.org/projects/ to projects.gnome.org, with the old URLs redirecting. That sub-domain existed before, but I don’t think anyone was using it. It’s still in the old gnomeweb-wml svn module, but it’s separated int...

Almost every time I see authors of traditional desktop office suites talking about web-based office suites, it is patently obvious that they haven’t read The Innovator’s Dilemma. (It isn’t just Michael; he just happens to be the latest example.) If you’re interested in innovation at all, do ...

Rob Straudinger recently added border-image support to his css markup-powered GTK+ Engine. This allows you to create really fancy buttons and other cool stuff in a rather simple way. Check out John Resig’s post about border-image implementation in Firefox for some cool demos of what you can do wit...

All hail Archer and Tom Tromeys python gdb integration: Before: (gdb) bt #0  nautilus_file_unref (file=0xdbbc60) at nautilus-file.c:724 #1  0x004a9e74 in nautilus_directory_async_state_changed (directory=0x7bf090) at nautilus-directory-async.c:4891 #2  0x004ae363 in nautilus_directory_call_when_...

the hackfest was quite amazing. even if i needed some days to recover my health state, it was great fun and it was also great to see some great people! just some foot notes, if they are visiting your city: call the local beer distributor and tell him, that you need some more for sure keep an eye ...

I’m the lead author and maintainer of java-gnome, an Open Source project that enables Java developers to write native GNOME applications using the GTK user interface toolkit. Like any such effort, it’s a huge amount of work, much of which goes on unseen. So there are few better ways of starting ...

Jono's blog post about Banshee Kickin' it has some interesting comments that I'd like to address, specifically regarding the new track editor and Internet Radio in the recently released Banshee 1.4. The Track Editor The new track editor is fully extensible. This means you can add your own pages to...

I don’t often have the opportunity anymore to spend part of the weekend in Barcelona, which I miss, so when Kristien told me she was going to be busy receiving a really old Spanish guy and his boat in Antwerp on TV this Saturday, I decided I was going to spend my Friday night and [...]

Today is my first day at litl. I’m joining a team which should be familiar to GNOME:rs in general: Johan Bilien, Lucas Rocha, Havoc Pennington and Tommi Komulainen. Exciting times!