Hacking Update
I rewrote my nautilus-cd-burner patch last night, hopefully Bastien can help me fix the growisofs code which I deleted, and Alex won't find too many problems with it. Once this is in I can work on the UI for Rhythmbox CD writing.
My patches to Sound Juicer to make the metadata lookup async are looking good too, a small cleanup and they're done. I owe Bastien a beer for making Sound Juicer his pet project for 10 minute hacks, and fixing a serious number of bugs for me. Great work that man.
Mark Finlay has been talking about scanning software for GNOME. I'm interested in coding some of this up, as I have a scanner under my desk which only needs a suitable cable (I really must scrape together the money for this). My £0.02 on this topic:
- Abstract scan types make perfect sense for the basic UI, such as "Web Quality", "Printable" etc.
- Then have an Advanced button (well, disclosure widget), with resolution, brightness, contrast, etc sliders.
- I can't decide where rotate/mirror etc should go though. Probably in the main UI.
- I was also thinking of eye candy when selecting regions: fade (desaturate and lighten) any areas which are not going to be scanned.
Trains, Backs, Gigs and Fairies
Continuing the finest British tradition of complaining, I must moan about the trains. Occasional signal problems I can deal with, but one signal failure on the way to work Monday, another one on the way back, and yet another Tuesday morning is just taking the piss, really. The conspiracy theorist in me notices how all of this is occurring just as the new signalling equipment has been installed and will be turned on next month -- there is nothing like a train service which is much better than usual to make the public think it was all worth it...
Off to see Heather Nova on Friday, the new album was out yesterday but I didn't know in time to get to the shops. Hopefully I'll get it today so I can at least bounce along to the songs. The venue looks stunning: it's an old church in Islington called the Union Chapel.. Hopefully I'll be there in time to meet Edd and have a pint first.
The back is much better now -- I'm still taking ibuprofen every morning as I wake up with a very stiff neck, but that is far better than not being able to move. At last that is over with.
Finally I saw another fairy on the tube today. I'm glad they are still around, they bring an air of excitement and mystery to London. For 99.9% of the people in the world who have no idea what I'm on about, this is the closest I can get to a link about them.
