The October 18th release date for Ubuntu “Gutsy” approaches fast. It currently defaults to using desktop effects (the Compiz window manager instead of Metacity). But compiz is still appalling. In particular, it behaves terribly together with the GNOME Panel, with windows appearing under the panels or over the panels, and sometimes drawing its shadows over […]

I finally had a chance to test out Vivien Malerba’s cursor support in libgda, and fixed some problems. It lets you use the “ITER_MODEL_ONLY” parameter to get a GdaDataModel that should be used only via a GdaDataModelIter iterator. That uses the SQL “FETCH” command to get chunks of rows at a time instead of getting […]

We released some extra C++ bindings recently:
gtksourceviewmm-2.0
I updated Dodji’s gtksourceviewmm to wrap the new gtksourceview-2.0 API. Here’s the svn, and the tarball download.
libnotifymm and hildon-notifymm
Johannes Schmid created libnotifymm (svn, tarball) to wrap libnotify, and we also wrapped Maemo’s hildon-notify, though there’s no documentation to say what this does beyond regular libnotify. I suspect that Maemo […]

GNOME 2.20 is out today. Here are the GNOME 2.20 release notes, showing all the enhancements and new features. It’s always more than we expect.
For GNOME 2.20 I returned to release notes duty after the 2.18 disaster. Now I’ve done 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, and 2.20. I couldn’t take another aimless group conversation about why […]

GNOME’s new documentation site, library.gnome.org, is now live and usable. Thanks are due to Frédéric Peters, Goran Rakić (and Google for funding Summer Of Code), and Olav Vitters for getting this done. Bugs and suggestions should be filed in bugzilla: List of open library.gnome.org bugs. Submit a library.gnome.org bug.
So a few days ago I did […]

I’m very pleased to say that Mathias Hasselmann will start working full-time for Openismus in the middle of October 2007. I was persuaded by the thoroughness of Mathias’ Google Summer Of Code work on the new height-for-width (final blog entry) layout system for GTK+. I had the chance to talk with him at GUADEC and […]

I released Glom 1.6. It’s mostly just a port to libgda 3.0 (from libgda 1.2). That makes life easier for people working on the code. We might have broken some things while doing that, so please do report bugs so we can fix them.
Glom 1.8 should be out in approximately six months from now. It’s […]

Many “micro systems’ (or “executive systems”), such as the JVC UX-EP25 now have USB host sockets so they can play music from USB sticks or portable audio players. But does anyone know of one that plays Ogg Vorbis? The Ogg Vorbis hardware page doesn’t list any.
I’d like one that plays internet radio too, but that […]

Every now and then I retest my collection of wireless USB adaptors, hoping that another one will start working thanks to an Ubuntu update. Today I noticed that the Zyxel G-220 v2 now works perfectly in Ubuntu Gutsy (zd1211b chipset, using the zd1211rw driver, I think). So there is now at least one wireless USB […]

Now that we have the new Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo Q Mini PC in the GNOME events box, we don’t need the old PC. I have permission from the GNOME Board to donate it to a GNOME developer (or some FOSS contributor) in the Munich area, if someone would like to collect it. It’s a little beaten […]