A New Year...
A little late, but that never hurt anyone.
This year looks like being a good one on the whole. I'm off to Paris in April for 4 days with Vicky for our anniversary. In June I want to try and get to GUADEC 4. Then in July I'm off to Kefalonia for two weeks, which was a birthday present (probably one of the best presents I've ever received...) from my parents.
I've also just bought a new camera -- the Canon EOS-300V. I've always wanted a decent SLR camera, so we bought it with all the money we received over Christmas. It totally rocks. I suppose now I'll have to get the scanner working...
Update
Dammit, back coding Java again, this time right at the bottom of the system with the native methods. Yuck. I've totally forgotten our language, popping and pushing operand stacks is dull and was really looking forward to some serious C++/gtkmm hacking. Oh well.
Started playing with Python again, this time I wanted to write a small system monitor using the notification tray. I don't really fancy working out how to send X events in Python, so I investigated how to use the PyGTK wrapping tools.
Many thanks to Johan Dahlin, who essentially guided me step by step through wrapping a GObject. After a few small issues (don't expect programs to parse empty files) I am nearly there -- I can import TrayIcon from trayicon but I cannot construct it. Watch this space.
So what do I expect to produce? Let us see:
- A bug report about the code generator not moaning when it is given a .h file instead of a .defs file.
- A small HOWTO on wrapping GObjects.
- A system monitor program which will silently sit in the background, putting an icon in the notification tray if for example disk space runs low.
Huzzah, gnome-games 2.2.0 is out. Hopefully GNOME 2.2, with its moody splash screen, isn't too far away. Of course I'll be replacing it with the disco balls of the ¡GARNOME! splash screen, as my login sound is now a the first bar of Disco Nights.
For gnome-games 2.4.0 I plan on removing many games. The exact list changes as random people should "I love that game" but I want to remove the buggy crap games and concentrate on the rest. The games I'm removing will be copied into a new module so other people can maintain them, but don't expect me to work too hard on them...
I finally finished my Debian Tasks & Skills and Philosophy & Procedures tests, and have passed. When Matt Hope gets back from the conference in Perth, he can start the final ball rolling. Maybe later this year I'll be ross@debian.org...
