GTK+ Secrets

In the last week or so I've discovered a couple of GTK+ tricks I didn't know, so I thought I'd share them.

  1. Control-Backspace in an entry deletes from the cursor to the beginning of the text. I had previously hacked up custom binding for Control-u, but this is bound by default. Thanks Emmanuele for pointing this out. Update: as proof that my fingers are still using C-u, Control-Backspace actually deletes a word and not the entire entry.
  2. Middle-clicking on a scroll bar will move directly to that point, instead of moving towards that point by a page. Very useful, I'm glad Mitch mentioned this in a bug.

NP: Didn't It Rain, Songs:Ohia

13:11 Wednesday, 21 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (12 comments)

Tasks 0.4

Tasks 0.4 is released! This release has some good new features:

Tasks

Sources are available on the OpenedHand Projects site, which also links to Debian packages.

NP: You Are Free, Cat Power

09:30 Friday, 16 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (13 comments)

XICC in Mozilla

I just learnt via The Daily Chump that Firefox 3 should have support for ICC profile handling when displaying images. The initial patch was to use ColorSync which won't work on Linux, but the recent patches by Tim Rowley also use the _ICC_PROFILE from my ICC Profiles In X specification when running on Linux. Excellent news, I hope this gets integrated soon.

Speaking of which, now that more applications are using this property, I should get around to extending the Screen Resolution setting in GNOME to include a colour profile selector...

NP: Kaleidoscope, DJ Food

11:40 Thursday, 15 Mar 2007 [#] [computers/xicc] (4 comments)

Scratchbox on Ubuntu Feisty

A quick note to everyone out there who has been sticking with old kernels on Feisty as 2.6.20-7 broke Scratchbox: the kernel that was released yesterday, 2.6.20-10, works again!

08:00 Wednesday, 14 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (0 comments)

GUADEC Call For Papers

Today is the GUADEC 2007 Call for Papers deadline, and submissions are still coming in fast and furious. However a few people who would submit a paper cannot do so today due to existing commitments, and as I'm an exceedingly generous individual the deadline is now extended until Thursday 15th March. That's the day after the GNOME 2.18 release, so if you want to submit a proposal and have a GNOME Release Party then remember to submit then party.

We also need more Lightning Talks. A Lightning Talk is simply a five minute presentation, so typically in an hour slot there will be ten or so talks on different topics. They are easy to present (being so short) and fun to watch (as there is a wide range of topics covered). They are a great way to announce a new project, demo something very cool (IIRC, David Reveman got a standing ovation when he demod Compiz in Stuttgart), or give a progress report. Submit your lightning talk today!

NP: Foley Room, Amon Tobin

10:20 Monday, 12 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (1 comments)

GUADEC 2007 Call for Papers Reminder

The GUADEC 2007 paper submission deadline is rapidly approaching: five days left and counting! That's right, if you want to talk at GUADEC this year in Birmingham, England, then you have until Monday 12th March to submit your proposal.

We need talks about desktop integration, embedded systems, large deployments, and profiling. We need tutorials on using GNOME from Python, or Perl, or C#. Sessions explaining how to use a certain application, or why a new library being developed is the best thing since sliced bread. Scheduled hackfests to fix bugs in certain applications, and discussions to work out complicated problems we have.

Basically, we need you. Propose your session for GUADEC now!

NP: The Man with a Movie Camera, The Cinematic Orchestra

15:15 Wednesday, 07 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (0 comments)

WANTED

This may sound a little strange but does anyone have linux-image-2.6.20-6-generic and the matching restricted modules packages for Ubuntu Feisty? They've fallen out of the Ubuntu archive, the morgue doesn't exist any more, and newer kernels don't work with Scratchbox. Thanks!

NP: Oneiric, Boxcutter

10:30 Wednesday, 07 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (7 comments)

Tasks 0.3

Tasks 0.3 is out! The main new features are internationalisation and category filtering. A complete list of user-visible changes:

I also had a few translations:

Sources are available on the OpenedHand Projects site, and packages for Ubuntu Edgy, Ubuntu Feisty, and Debian Sid are in my repository. Adam Williamson has also packaged Tasks into Mandriva Contrib.

21:16 Monday, 05 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (13 comments)

Tasks Packages

Thanks to the magic of CDBS and my rebuild script, I've now got packages of Tasks 0.2 for Debian Sid, Ubuntu Edgy and Ubunty Feisty in my repository. The Sid packages are also in the NEW queue so should hit Debian in... about three weeks.

Thanks to Andrew Kerr who mailed me an initial packaging, although I think I did end up rewriting about 80% of it.

NP: Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots, The Kleptones

13:44 Friday, 02 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (6 comments)

Tasks Translations (part 2)

I may give up actually coding in the future and just ask for things to be done on my blog.

14:30 Thursday, 01 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (1 comments)

Tasks Translations

2007-03-01  Ross Burton  

	* tr.po:
	Turkish translation, thanks Tuyan Ozipek.

	* es.po:
	Spanish, thanks Adolfo González Blázquez.

	* de.po:
	German, thanks Christoph Brill.

	* nl.po:
	Dutch, thanks Max Beauchez.

Thanks guys!

12:20 Thursday, 01 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (0 comments)

Tasks i18n

Fame and Glory go to Jordi Mallach for the i18n patch and Catalan translation of Tasks. Go Jordi!

Translators, the gauntlet has been thrown. Tasks isn't in GNOME SVN which is a pain for you I know (though I do have a cunning plan for that...) but the SVN is publically available. I'll greatly welcome each and every translation.

08:10 Thursday, 01 Mar 2007 [#] [computers] (1 comments)