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A rudimentary hamster control in docky

15.07.2010 21:45  Hamster enhanced by a little helper showing current duration. Mouse over for activity name and category Grab the helper . Due to a , it is dying when trying to install a helper. So your best bet is to go into ~/.local/share/docky/helpers, copy the .py file from scripts folder of archive in there and the .info from metadata folder copy into the metadata. Restart docky and the helper should be there now . In order to work properly it will require . Once ready – launch the standalone hamster and the helper will pick it up. Maybe pin it to the docky so it doesn’t go anywhere. The circular badge thing will appear whenever something’s being tracked.

GStreamer Core 0.10.30, Base Plugins 0.10.30, Good Plugins 0.10.24 stable releases

15.07.2010 15:15  The GStreamer team announces new releases of the GStreamer core module, the gst-plugins-base module, and the gst-plugins-good module for the 0.10 GStreamer stable release series. Check out release notes for , , , or download tarballs for , , ,

GNOME 2.31.5 unstable release

14.07.2010 23:00 GNOME 2.31.5 Development Release ================================ GUADEC is in ten days, and if there is a team you will want to chase down it's obviously the release team; we have been pushing all of you hard to get modules ported to GTK+ 3, GSettings, GApplication... but it's worth it, and you did a fantastic job! 2.31.5 is out and features a lot of modules ported to GTK+ 3; oh sure there are bugs, and disabled features, but 1) this is temporary, and 2) this should be seen as an opportunity for sleepless nights in The Hague. Isn't it a wonderful world? But there is no reason to wait for the Netherlands, so go download it, go compile it, go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it. Do note that starting with this release, some freezes are in action: * String Change Announcement Period: string changes must be announced to gnome-doc-list and gnome-i18n. * UI Change Announcement Period: UI changes must be announced to gnome-doc-list. To compile GNOME 2.31.5, you can the jhbuild modulesets : http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.31.5/ The release notes that describe the changes between 2.31.4 and 2.31.5 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release: platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.31/2.31.5/NEWS desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.31/2.31.5/NEWS admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.31/2.31.5/NEWS bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.31/2.31.5/NEWS devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.31/2.31.5/NEWS mobile - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.31/2.31.5/NEWS The GNOME 2.31.5 release is available here: platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.31/2.31.5/ desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.31/2.31.5/ admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.31/2.31.5/ bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.31/2.31.5/ devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.31/2.31.5/ mobile sources - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.31/2.31.5/ WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. For more information about 2.31, the full schedule, the official modules list and the proposed modules list, please see our 2.31 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/ Also take a look at the abbreviated schedule reminder page at: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Enjoy! Frederic

Anjuta 2.31.1 “Too hot to code” released

14.07.2010 00:15 Anjuta 2.31.5 “Too hot to code” — Johannes Schmid New: - Debugger supports pretty-printing now Updated: - More work on the symbol database code quality and performance Bugs fixed: project-wizard: bgo #623754 – focus on wrong text-field run: bgo #623944 – buttons swapped on “Program parameters” gdb: bgo#494292 – Set next statement gdb: bgo #617323 – Save debugger stack trace configure: Fix the forced debugging mode even if –disable-debug is given Fix for bgo #622706 and allow to sort shortcuts by accelerator symbol-db: Fixed bgo #617472: doubled items in locals view bgo #622526 – HAVE_INTROSPECTION does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL terminal: bgo#619253 – Problem of ianjuta_terminal_execute_command in 2.28 anjuta: F6 switches focus instead of setting over symbol-db: Fixed crasher bgo #622139 project-wizard: bgo #621512 – Remove deprecated glib symbols language-support-vala: bgo#620927 – Vala plugin compilation libanjuta: bgo#620664 – Drag and drop of multiple source files Thanks to Abderrahim Kitouni, Akom C, Andika Triwidada, Fran Diéguez, G. Baylard, Gennaro Bellizio, Jorge González, Massimo Corà, Matej Urbančič, Naba Kumar, Romain Perier Sébastien Granjoux

Clutter 1.3.8 - developers snapshot

13.07.2010 01:30 good news, everyone! here's to you the fourth 1.3 developers snapshot of Clutter. Download Clutter 1.3.8 is now available for download at: A mirror is also available here: SHA256 Checksums: d6ebdadb484e11d718a9ebc967ec82b49f254e035b360b033d51ce1c9e20c856 clutter-1.3.8.tar.gz 1d34ea6165851ba3a419f5d142b017a1b308c4502fd5ff1d2c808706ccf29299 clutter-1.3.8.tar.bz2 Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Requirements GLib >= 2.18.0 Cairo >= 1.6 Pango >= 1.20 Atk >= 1.7 OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0 GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on: GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0 JSON-GLib >= 0.10 Release Notes This is the fourth developers snapshot of the 1.3 cycle. This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter. Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter. Bugs should be reported on . What's new in Clutter 1.3.8 List of changes since Clutter 1.3.6 Merge Cally, the Clutter Accessibility Library, in the Clutter tree. Documentation available . Take into consideration the source actor's position in the ClutterAlignConstraint logic. Update the internal COGL tesselator with the latest GLU code. Fix CoglTexture data readback. Use GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE on GLES when checking the supported texture size. Add missing public functions from COGL headers. Fix GLES build after the Cogl material changes. Rename the experimental CoglPixelBuffer API to CoglPixelArray. Split the clutter_state_change method into two: clutter_state_set_state , for animated state changes; and clutter_state_warp_to_state for immediate state changes. Documentation and introspection fixes. Build fixes. Many thanks to: Robert Bragg Neil Roberts Elliot Smith Alejandro Piñeiro Øyvind Kolås Damien Lespiau Alexandros Frantzis Have fun with Clutter!

Stormy’s update: June 14th-July 12th, 2010

12.07.2010 22:00 My weekly update routine has been broken. I used to write my update every Monday morning. However, now when I sit down on Monday morning I usually have several hundred unread messages. So I am working on a new routine for writing my updates. In the mean time, here’s what I’ve been up to: Had an  as a prelude to my  keynote. Participated in several  planning meetings. The conference is coming along well! Had regular 1:1’s with Brian Cameron. Had regular 1:1’s with Rosanna Yuen. Attended board meetings. Participated in board discussions. Worked on setting up lightning talks on web services and free software for OSCON. Worked on setting up lightning talks on Getting Things Done in GNOME for GUADEC. Helped with GUADEC planning stuff mostly budget, sponsors and some general planning. We had some last minute staff changes as one staff member got too ill to continue. We did a  as the new OLPC will also have GNOME on it. Contacted all the groups that submitted bids to host the Desktop Summit 2011, sent them our questions and asked them to update their bids and make them public. Ended up with two bids. The boards will now interview them. Had a couple of meetings with GNOME advisory board members. I hope to catch them all in person 1:1 during GUADEC. Sent out several emails about the  to our advisory board members. Several expressed interest in getting it incorporated in their regular corporate training. Attended the  . Gave a talk on GNOME, attended a Foundations BOF and lots of interesting discussions. Worked on signing up a new GNOME advisory board member. To be announced later. GNOME was accepted into the YouTube nonprofit program. Stay tuned for what we do with that space. Probably starting with GUADEC and taking off with GNOME 3. And answered the kazillion emails, IMs and IRCs. So feel free to ping me if you have questions!

Issue 91

11.07.2010 20:00 This week… 2192 commits, in 173 projects, by 235 happy hackers . Jim Evins added native support for SVG images to glabels. Ignacio Casal Quinteiro continued porting gedit plugins to libpeas, and Philip Withnall ported totem plugins. The possibility to edit metadata of many images is now possible again in gthumb Ryan Lortie added a GSettings port of Cheese, in the gsettings branch. Vinagre got support for RDP connections, wrapping the rdesktop program . Matthias Clasen added bash completion support for gsettings. Nate Stedman added possiblity for the user to insert images into ease. Support for OSSv4 and SunAudio has been added to gstreamer-properties . Shaun McCance finished the transition to GDBus of yelp. In the various Summer of Code Jamie Nicol has been making progress on Last.fm radio playback in rhythmbox, Luca Invernizzi finished the first version of a Launchpad backend for Getting Things GNOME, etc. Top projects Project Commits gimp 232 tracker 157 gtk+ 130 evolution-data-server 102 f-spot 84 tomboy 77 gthumb 55 vala 54 gedit 48 ocrfeeder 44 Top authors Author Commits Modules Michael Natterer 119 gimp, gimp-web Ruben Vermeersch 78 f-spot, banshee David Woodhouse 77 evolution-data-server, evolution Jürg Billeter 72 vala, tracker Martin Nordholts 71 gimp, gimp-web Paul Cutler 60 tomboy Matthias Clasen 60 gtk+, jhbuild, glib and others Jorge González 56 rygel, libgda, gedit and others Paolo Bacchilega 46 gthumb, file-roller Matthew Barnes 43 evolution, evolution-data-server, gtkhtml and others

Issue 92

11.07.2010 20:00 This week… 1620 commits, in 162 projects, by 206 happy hackers . Yuvaraj Pandian T enhanced the speed of swtiching to the effects brower in his Cheese three-point-oh branch. Shaun McCance added a topological page sort for Mallard documents. Evince, GNOME Shell, Brasero and Empathy all have been switched to GTK+ 3. Jakub Steiner commited new symbolic icons, forcopy, cut, paste and more. Support for non-GObject fundamental objects has been added to gobject-introspection; it is mostly interesting for being able to support GstMiniObject’s which are extensivly used in GStreamer. Peter Bloomfield has added support for older IMAP servers, that do not advertise the “RIGHTS=” capability, to Balsa. Robert Ancell added support for enumerations in dconf-editor. Johan Dahlin pushed a llvm branch into pygobject, he explains the purpose on his website, in post. A backend for tasks has been pushed into evolution-couchdb. Enrico Minack added currency support to the Invest applet . . The feature_backup2 branch of glom got created, which adds support for making backups, and restore, of glom databases. Aaron Bockover added handling of Amazon MP3 store music previews and samples to Banshee. The ability to sort by image/video dimensions has been added into gthumb. Last, the summers of code are still making improvements, for example Luca Invernizzi started working on both a remember the milk and a couchdb plugins for Getting Things GNOME, and Michal Hruby spent time improving Sezen, etc. Top projects Project Commits tracker 198 f-spot 135 glib 90 empathy 87 gnumeric 57 gimp 55 anjuta 41 gtk+ 37 banshee 36 brasero 35 Top authors Author Commits Modules Ruben Vermeersch 106 f-spot, hyena Jürg Billeter 79 tracker, vala Guillaume Desmottes 74 empathy Matthias Clasen 69 glib, gtk+, gdk-pixbuf Aleksander Morgado 59 tracker Jorge González 41 empathy, glib, ocrfeeder and others Philip Van Hoof 36 tracker Matej Urbančič 31 fast-user-switch-applet, gtk+, ekiga and others Mario Blättermann 31 tracker, f-spot, glabels and others Michael Natterer 30 gimp

GNOME 2.31.5 unstable tarballs due

09.07.2010 16:00 Hi all, Time to start rolling your tarballs for the next unstable release! Ready, set, go! :-) We would like to inform you about the following: * GNOME 2.31.5 unstable tarballs due * String Change Announcement Period * UI Change Announcement Period Tarballs are due on 2010-07-12 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 2.31.5 unstable release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Modules which were proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so everyone can test them. Please make sure that your tarballs will be uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will probably be too late to get in 2.31.5. If you are not able to make a tarball before this deadline or if you think you'll be late, please send a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll the tarball for you! For more information about 2.31, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 2.31 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Cheers! --lucasr

Meeting Minutes Published - June 24, 2010

08.07.2010 17:15 The meeting minutes for the June 24th GNOME Foundation board meeting is now published. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100624 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

Desktop Summit 2011 Bids

07.07.2010 18:30 Hi happy Foundation members! We are in the final stages of accepting bids for the 2011 Desktop Summit co-hosted by GNOME and KDE. As part of that process, we have asked the bidding organizations to make their bids public and you will see those bids sent to the Foundation list, such as the Turkey bid that was sent to the list earlier today. If you have questions, please reply to the Foundation list and either the organization may respond or the Board will aggregate the questions. Cheers, Paul

GNOME 2.31.4 released

01.07.2010 22:45 GNOME 2.31.4 Development Release ================================ GNOME 2.31.4 has been released. This is the first release featuring a number of modules that have switched from GTK+ 2.x to 3, and it also brings a surprise standalone gdk-pixbuf. We hope to ramp up the number of modules using GTK+ 3 for the 2.31.5 release. To compile GNOME 2.31.4, you can the jhbuild modulesets : http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.31.4/ The release notes that describe the changes between 2.31.3 and 2.31.4 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release: platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.31/2.31.4/NEWS desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.31/2.31.4/NEWS admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.31/2.31.4/NEWS bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.31/2.31.4/NEWS devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.31/2.31.4/NEWS The GNOME 2.31.4 release is available here: platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.31/2.31.4/ desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.31/2.31.4/ admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.31/2.31.4/ bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.31/2.31.4/ devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.31/2.31.4/ WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. For more information about 2.31, the full schedules, the official modules list and the proposed modules list, please see our 2.31 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/ Also take a look at the abbreviated schedule reminder page at: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule We hope you'll like it, The GNOME Release Team

The Clutter Cookbook

01.07.2010 19:30 the Clutter API reference is pretty nice, and we strive to keep it up to complete, readable and full of examples. it remains an API reference, though: it helps you only if you know what you want to do. there are times when you know what you want to achieve but not how to get there. for these times, Clutter comes with a simple cookbook — a list of recipes that give you reasonable solutions for common issues. the clutter cookbook... the lives in the Clutter Core repository and it's built with Clutter itself. whenever there's a new release, it will also be pushed online. right now, it's classified as unstable, and obviously contributions are very much welcome: if you have a cool recipe that you want to share, just and describe it there — bonus points if you attach a patch for the DocBook. AttachmentSize 35.54 KB

Banshee 1.7.2 Released

01.07.2010 06:30  , the third of the 1.7 beta series leading to 1.8, has been released. Read the for more info.

Issue 90

01.07.2010 00:00 This week… 2629 commits, in 209 projects, by 282 happy hackers . GSettings ports again, nautilus-sendto, gcalctool were both switched this week to use GSettings. nautilus-sendto has also been ported to GTK+ 3.0, and Rygel as well. OpenID support has been added to Snowy, the web companion of Tomboy. Daniel P. Berrange added support for colourmap based pixel formats to gtk-vnc, his patch implements full support for rendering from colourmaps, this should improve performances in low bandwidth situations. The notification-daemon got support for multiple screens and monitor changes Christian Persch ported the SVGZ support in librsvg so it can use GZlibDecompressor instead of libgsf . Damon Chaplin worked quite a lot on a new API for goocanvas, in the new-api branch of goocanvas… GNOME Shell got support for icon buttons in notifications, thanks to Matt Novenstern . Morten Welinder fixed the excessive memory usage of gnumeric related to column styles when reading xslx files . Michael J. Chudobiak switched the documentation of gthumb to Mallard. In Empathy support for importing old Missing Control 4 accounts has been removed. Bastien Nocera ported the sound preferences dialog to be a panel in the new control center; and Richard Hughes ported the preferences dialog of GNOME PackageKit. The GNOME Panel got support for gobject-introspection, for its panel applet library . In Vinagre Jonh Wendell implemented the “take screenshot” command for the SSH connections. In the land of GSOC students Jamie Nicol finished off the profile view , Stéphane Maniaci added some informations about the photos imported from Flickr , Michel Hruby started a Totem plugin to allow searching for recent media, and other students were also hard at work. Top projects Project Commits tracker 429 gtk+ 135 gthumb 106 gimp 85 glib 83 empathy 64 f-spot 59 evolution-data-server 59 gdm 56 jhbuild 56 Top authors Author Commits Modules Aleksander Morgado 107 tracker, gnome-applets Jürg Billeter 101 tracker, vala Martyn Russell 80 tracker Paolo Bacchilega 79 gthumb, file-roller, goobox Matthias Clasen 68 glib, gdk-pixbuf, gtk+ and others Matthew Barnes 68 evolution, evolution-data-server, gtkhtml and others William Jon McCann 62 gdm, libnotify, notification-daemon and others Javier Jardón 58 gtk+, jhbuild, gdk-pixbuf and others Adrien Bustany 56 tracker, vala Richard Hughes 52 gnome-color-manager, gnome-power-manager, gnome-packagekit and others