I’m probably the last person to discover this, but I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere before.
I just noticed that you can drag the path from the parent-folders button (at the bottom left of a GNOME file manager window) to the file chooser dialog’s location entry, which is convenient when you are opening or saving from […]

I sent this to the gconf-list as well, but I’m posting it here in case someone has some generic code that I can steal, or has some better idea.
Say I have an intensive process that should be rerun in response to changes in any one of twenty GConf configuration keys, how might I prevent my […]

A little while ago, Vivien Malerba released libgda 3.0.0 (and libgnomedb 3.0.0), so it’s now finally API/ABI stable. This was a long hard push, but we pulled everything together and got it done. Vivien deserves many thanks for his relentless bug-fixing.
C++ bindings are already available: libgdamm 3.0 and libgnomedbmm 3.0, with lots of documentation, though […]

A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Overholt and his friend Thorsten Klaus visited my place in Munich. They were wonderful guests. We did the tour of the roof of the old Olympiastadium, that slinky glass tent thing. Thorsten got some great photos. They actually tell you to jump up and down to feel how much […]

Openismus now has another part-time developer: Christian “gicmo” Kellner, a gnome-vfs maintainer who has also worked for Scalix on their Evolution connector, currently a student at Passau University, Germany. He’ll be doing roughly similar work for Openismus, getting stuff done that wouldn’t get done otherwise. If only we could get the rest of the GNOME […]

When you specify glib idle callbacks to g_idle_add_full() with different priorities, there is no guarantee that they will be called in the order that you added them. But it’s normal that you’d want, for instance, progress callbacks to have a lower priority than the callback that does the work itself. But you probably need to […]