I don't think people are using gtkmm 2.3 enough yet, because we haven't had the patches that we normally have. Maybe gtkmm 2.2 is too good, or people don't understand that API freeze will happen on February 16th.
I released an API-frozen Bakery 2.0.0 now that libxml++ is API stable. And libxml++ is now in […]

dbus-cpp is now in the freedesktop.org CVS and needs you to make it work.
libgnomeprint*mm tarballs are out there. Some people wanted this, so now I expect them to send patches.
The API/ABI-stable libxml++ 1.0.0 should be out there today.

Stories about nothing
As an early Christmas present, I was taken to hear Friedrich Ani read from, and […]

This must be an intense time for Ximian. I hope they are helped a little by the strong relationships everyone has built within the community.

Nautilus
alex implemented the "shift means close the current window" feature, making the GNOME 2.5 spatial nautilus feel a lot like a classic Mac. Shift-double-click to open-and-close-the-current-one, to keep your screen […]

It looks like I'm still on the release team. I tried to leave, I really did, but I have to stick around for now to push the Bindings release set. So you get to hear more of my random opinions. People should suggest themselves as replacements - I want to be obsolete.
For instance, it looks […]

I rewrote regexxer and PrefixSuffix a bit to use our new C++ gnome-vfs bindings rather than just local file systems. Regexxer was much easier than I expected because danielk's code is so well structured. I haven't done a comparison, but I suspect that regexxer is slower now. If Daniel ever shows up again he's going […]

The DSL at work is down. I tried using an outdoor WLAN the other day, but my fingers froze up after 5 minutes.
Things I am trying to push at the moment, through the power of email:

Mac-Finder-like keyboard navigation. I think it might happen. I'm willing to implement it.
A GNOME clipboard daemon (random part […]