I started a Mentored Projects page on the GNOME wiki for us to list stuff left over from Google’s Summer Of Code. There seems to be much enthusiasm for this, and we have a lot to gain. It shouldn’t be just for students, but some universities would like to make it part of their courses.
So, […]

Glom version 1.0.3 is now available in Ubuntu Dapper. Several nasty bugs were fixed in the last few versions, thanks to some excellent feedback on bugzilla and the mailing list. This included a crash when adding fields in non-English locales and a problem opening examples in 1.0.0. So, please try it out and give me […]

As before, I’m still pondering indecisively how I might implement the Glom Web UI. There’s several AJAX toolkits that should take some of the pain away, but the choice of programming languages is still the big forking decision.
Now that Java can be distributed on Linux, it’s a candidate again. And now that Java has generics, […]

Every now and then I’m trying to help prune our big (> 180 elligible) list of applications. The quality of applications is much better than last year, so we have to be quite critical. Even where the applications aren’t great, the students seem to have lots of ability and enthusiasm.
I don’t want these people to […]

The Glom bounty listed on launchpad.net is now at $400 due to a couple of new pledges. It’s not particularly difficult. It just needs a little time, if you know what you are doing.

I had an email discussion recently with Anne Østergaard about the major lack of female involvement in GNOME, and free software in general. I’m so proud of our community and how it lets talented people get involved, without all the obstacles that they find in the offline world. But it’s obvious that women are not […]

I posted this to gtkmm list today. I’ll repeat it here because smart people read planet GNOME.
I have recently done some work to optimize gtkmm for code size, for use on embedded devices, such as Nokia’s 770 internet table. I was concerned that, for instance:

the _stripped_ code size of gtkmm 2.6’s libgtkmm .so is 2.5M […]

I don’t understand exactly what it’s meant to achieve, or how it’s controlled, but MacSlow’s videos of his LowFat file-management thing, using gtkmm and OpenGL are certainly smooth. He says he plans to use cairo(mm) for it in the future. Give it a minute or so to get to the good stuff.

Does anyone know how I can use Eclipse to edit an existing checkout, for instance to use it with my jhbuild checkouts? The best I can do so far is use Eclipse’s File/Import…/”Checkout Projects From CVS…” feature, but that puts a new copy of the code in ~/workspaces/. Eclipse’s File/Import…/”Filesystem” also seems to copy the […]

I got back from Wiesbaden yesterday after helping to man the GNOME stand for the first day of LinuxTag. This year it’s in Wiesbaden instead of Karlsruhe. It seems to be significantly smaller, and felt deserted on that first day, but I’m sure it will pick up later, like it always did in Karlsruhe. There’s […]