At the Systems fair this year in Munich, Thomas Keup tried to persuade me that we should just be marketing GNOME as beautiful or cool. He’s a marketing expert, but I wasn’t easily persuaded. It seemed too simplistic.
I’ve been on a few stands now for GNOME, and I’ve got pretty good at introducing it to [...]

I’ve taken Leonard Ritter’s initial code to create Cairo C++ bindings – cairomm. I’ll add them to cairo’s CVS hopefully soon when I get access rights.
I’ll make gtkmm 2.9/2.10 depend on this, because cairo coders need to use methods from gtk(mm), Qt, etc, to get their Cairo context, and to use toolkit-specific colour structures, etc. [...]

I so want to believe in MIT’s $100 laptop. This video interview with display-expert Mary Lou Jepsen (I think) is highly informative, and Jim Getty’s advice for open source developers makes it feel real to me.
But there’s so many ways this could not happen, because there’s so many corporations that would want to stop it [...]

I forgot to blog this at the time. A few months ago, I was looking for a cell phone for my girlfriend’s grandfather, so he could always contact his family when he needed help. He doesn’t hear so well, he’s not from the computer generation, and he’s not eager to use a magnifying glass and [...]

I really like how the 770’s Opera browser lets you scroll by pushing the page up with the stylus. This is a lot easier than trying to hit the little scrollbar – see Fitt’s Law. It conflicts with the idea of clicking-and-moving to select text, but maybe epiphany/firefox could switch to scrolling after a long [...]

I’ve checked in my C++ bindings for Nokia’s Hildon libs (guest, guest), for Maemo, on the 770 . I just have a few signals and properties more to wrap. The build can generate doxygen html like the gtkmm documentation, but I dont’ have doxygen and dot (graphviz) in the scratchbox session. I guess I [...]

Shortly before Christmas (Festivus), I’ll be finished with the work in Karlsruhe. I’ll spend Christmas here, then take the train to spend a few days (26th to 29th) in Berlin. Then it’s New Year’s in Lisbon from the 30th to 6th. I love Berlin and expect to love Lisbon.
Then it’s back to Munich.

Hello, lazy web.
So, I have a program that’s linked against glibc 2.1.3 (I think). My system has glibc 2.3.3, but that’s OK because glibc (since glibc 2.1) also provides the older (partly incompatible) ABIs, so already-built software keeps running. Opinions differ about that, but that’s another vague discussion that you can have elsewhere.
But the program [...]

The GNOME Deutschland guys have a stand at LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt for the next 3 days. Say hello, pick up an Ubuntu CD, see the Linux desktop and see how beautifully easy it is. Ask how to get involved.

I am so pleased that Sabayon and Pesselus will most likely be in GNOME 2.14, and that Sabayon already uses Pesselus. I do hope that they show up in menus for humans as something like “Administration/User Profiles” or “Administration/Lockdown Editor” or something even clearer. They bring GNOME’s beauty to the system administrators.
I like to think [...]