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(closed doors are bad, right)</p> <p>so, thanks canonical for flying me there, this is going to be an awesome week.</p> <p>--</p> <p>mirsal</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/on-my-way-to-uds-o">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/on-my-way-to-uds-o#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=fBoSCGnTMEI:RXqRkMW4kuI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=fBoSCGnTMEI:RXqRkMW4kuI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=fBoSCGnTMEI:RXqRkMW4kuI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=fBoSCGnTMEI:RXqRkMW4kuI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=fBoSCGnTMEI:RXqRkMW4kuI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img 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implementations to manipulate a short playlist.</p> <p>This version is an almost complete rewrite of the specification and enumerating the changes would be long and boring.</p> <p>The new spec is there: <a href="http://www.mpris.org/2.0/spec/">http://www.mpris.org/2.0/spec/</a></p> <p>The source code is hosted in a gitorious git repository, there: git://gitorious.org/mpris/mainline.git</p> <p>&nbsp;- mirsal</p> </div> <p>Sponsor my part of the work: <a href="http://flattr.com/thing/55593/MPRIS-Media-Player-Remote-Interfacing-specification" target="_blank"> <img title="Flattr this" src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-compact-static-100x17.png" border="0" alt="Flattr this" /></a></p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/mpris-v20-better-late-than-never">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/mpris-v20-better-late-than-never#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a 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(Working with and meeting very nice like-minded people is enjoyable. Seeing that by working together in an almost altruistic way, a few of us can make a 170k-people charity event a success also gives me very valuable hope about what we can achieve, plus we get to see a lot of concerts ;))</p> <p>This is very close to what motivates people in the free software movement, and wonder why I didn't meet more freetards there.</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/the-solidays-and-how-it-relates-to-what-we-do">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/the-solidays-and-how-it-relates-to-what-we-do#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=wPvtnnOw9GE:rQI9D_cI00Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=wPvtnnOw9GE:rQI9D_cI00Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=wPvtnnOw9GE:rQI9D_cI00Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=wPvtnnOw9GE:rQI9D_cI00Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=wPvtnnOw9GE:rQI9D_cI00Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=wPvtnnOw9GE:rQI9D_cI00Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/wPvtnnOw9GE" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/the-solidays-and-how-it-relates-to-what-we-do Fri, 07 May 2010 15:35:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/p-CoaSGsR0I/the-past-two-weeks http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/the-past-two-weeks <p> <p>The past two weeks were particularly busy ones :  I moved to a new place and I got a bit swamped in client work as a result (by the way, my code is free, and on github even if I highly doubt it will be useful to anyone). I also got myself a n900, putting my little phone-less experiment to an end. Maemo is full of awesomeness, and I only barely scratched the surface yet. Hacking on it promises to be exciting.</p> <p>My Gtk+ patch was accepted, but I did not have the time to work any more on gnome since then. However, I submitted two minor patches to ubuntu in order to scratch itches and stay in shape.</p> <p>Hopefully, the coming days are going to be more relaxed and I plan to resume my exploration of GNOME's codebase :)</p> <p> </p> <p>-mirsal</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/the-past-two-weeks">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/the-past-two-weeks#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=p-CoaSGsR0I:lF8p53u2aCA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=p-CoaSGsR0I:lF8p53u2aCA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=p-CoaSGsR0I:lF8p53u2aCA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=p-CoaSGsR0I:lF8p53u2aCA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=p-CoaSGsR0I:lF8p53u2aCA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=p-CoaSGsR0I:lF8p53u2aCA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/p-CoaSGsR0I" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/the-past-two-weeks Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:23:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/zhvAZef3Uy0/volontarily-shaving-the-yak http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/volontarily-shaving-the-yak <p> <p><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving#Noun" target="_blank">Yak-shaving</a> can be kind of interesting when one's goal is to get her hands in all around a large code base, so I'm doing some, and it is rather fun. I was thinking about how I could add undo/redo capabilities to the empathy chat message input, so I read the code of GtkSourceView and I figured out it could use some gseal love along the way. I then <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615392">started</a> to remove direct access to GObject public structure members, and I stumbled upon sealed members that had no acessor function (As far as I understand, <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/">GtkSourceView</a> uses its underlying GtkTextView's vertical and horizontal GtkAdjustment widgets to detect content overflow in order to compensate the loss of margin caused by the apparition of scrollbars) so I ended up writing a <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=158994&amp;action=diff">patch</a> against Gtk+ that adds these accessors in order to remove direct access to sealed attributes while exploring the GtkSourceView code to see how it implements its undo stack so I can write something similar in Empathy (now *this* is shaving the yak, isn't it ?).</p> <p>When Empathy has undo/redo capabilities, GtkSourceView is almost ready for Gtk 3 and GtkTextViews has accessors for its adjustments, I will start thinking about some things I'd really like to become real while continuing to learn with GnomeLove stuff :</p> <p>* an <a href="http://bloc.eurion.net/archives/2010/automatic-music-rating/">autonomous music rating system</a> using the <a href="https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist">Zeitgeist</a> engine to retrieve metadata, playcounts and context.</p> <p>* a personal publishing system probably using DesktopCouch and CouchDB's peer to peer replication goodness, along with webkit-gtk for live previews.</p> <p>* The <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Mathusalem">Mathusalem</a> project, which is a framework for applications to make the desktop aware of long running operations (ie: file copy, disc burning software updates, bittorrent downloads, file indexing, etc...) and enables it to control their execution when possible in order to delay / throttle / queue them, which would eventually be done automatically using Zeitgeist (for example, it would be nice to stop cpu / io intensive non-mandatory background tasks when starting a foreground activity that needs resources)</p> <p> </p> <p>-mirsal</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/volontarily-shaving-the-yak">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/volontarily-shaving-the-yak#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=zhvAZef3Uy0:GMcj306z8h4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=zhvAZef3Uy0:GMcj306z8h4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=zhvAZef3Uy0:GMcj306z8h4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=zhvAZef3Uy0:GMcj306z8h4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=zhvAZef3Uy0:GMcj306z8h4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=zhvAZef3Uy0:GMcj306z8h4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/zhvAZef3Uy0" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/volontarily-shaving-the-yak Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:30:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/QXHiG_I9PKs/getting-out-of-facebook-and-the-likes http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/getting-out-of-facebook-and-the-likes <p> <p>I will be gradually terminating my accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and some other non-free (as in freedom) online services I currently use. Facebook and twitter will be the first ones so go grab my e-mail address from there (or elsewhere) if you want to be able to contact me (I also use it with XMPP) after I do that in a few days</p> <p>The next ones to go will be Posterous and Tumblr but not until I set up what's needed to maintain an online presence the right way.</p> <p>I do not plan to get out from GMail, GReader and lastfm yet (sadly these got me really hooked up) and I'll keep using Identi.ca</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/getting-out-of-facebook-and-the-likes">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/getting-out-of-facebook-and-the-likes#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=QXHiG_I9PKs:-loWPpRhNeM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=QXHiG_I9PKs:-loWPpRhNeM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=QXHiG_I9PKs:-loWPpRhNeM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=QXHiG_I9PKs:-loWPpRhNeM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=QXHiG_I9PKs:-loWPpRhNeM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=QXHiG_I9PKs:-loWPpRhNeM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/QXHiG_I9PKs" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/getting-out-of-facebook-and-the-likes Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:15:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/ehXZr8qOVRI/eben-moglen-free-and-open-software-paradigm-f http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/eben-moglen-free-and-open-software-paradigm-f <p> <p> <object height="385" width="480"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tbcy_ZxXLl8&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tbcy_ZxXLl8&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="385" width="480"></embed> </object> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/eben-moglen-free-and-open-software-paradigm-f">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/eben-moglen-free-and-open-software-paradigm-f#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=ehXZr8qOVRI:C6t0tjXAKtA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=ehXZr8qOVRI:C6t0tjXAKtA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=ehXZr8qOVRI:C6t0tjXAKtA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=ehXZr8qOVRI:C6t0tjXAKtA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=ehXZr8qOVRI:C6t0tjXAKtA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=ehXZr8qOVRI:C6t0tjXAKtA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/ehXZr8qOVRI" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/eben-moglen-free-and-open-software-paradigm-f Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:29:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/HBYS_YxEp14/first-patch-landed-in-empathy http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/first-patch-landed-in-empathy <p> <p>I landed my first patch in Empathy (yay...) Well, the patch itself is a bit ridiculous, but hey, I gotta start somewhere !</p> <p>My day job keeps me pretty busy so I didn't do much more than exploring the empathy codebase (some parts of it are a bit messy and could definitely use some cleaning, which I'll probably do, someday) and hitting walls trying to figure out how I could fix this: <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598394">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598394</a> and how I could add undo / redo capabilities to the chat window's input. In both cases, the solutions I came up with were not really elegant so no patch for these yet.</p> <p>I cloned the git repositories I'm working on on github so I can work from another machine if I need to. People can also pull my patches from there.</p> <p>I also noticed that GNOME is no exception compared to most of the other free software projects I contributed to: posting on mailing lists and poking people on IRC is several orders of magnitude more efficient than only using the bug tracker.</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/first-patch-landed-in-empathy">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/first-patch-landed-in-empathy#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=HBYS_YxEp14:LvUN17Yx9iM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=HBYS_YxEp14:LvUN17Yx9iM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=HBYS_YxEp14:LvUN17Yx9iM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=HBYS_YxEp14:LvUN17Yx9iM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=HBYS_YxEp14:LvUN17Yx9iM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=HBYS_YxEp14:LvUN17Yx9iM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/HBYS_YxEp14" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/first-patch-landed-in-empathy Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:39:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/HzB-G_x5zsU/why-i-like-ubuntu-0 http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/why-i-like-ubuntu-0 <p> <p>When I'm asked which distro I use, my answer is often met with a slight grin, and while there are a lot of things that are far from perfect with ubuntu, there is one aspect that makes me not want to stop using it and occasionally contributing to it. As surprising as it may seem, it has a lot to do with the name, which reflects the main idea behind the ubuntu project. It is meant to have the lowest possible barrier to entry for both users and contributors so that it maximizes the impact on society that every single contribution has, while also ensuring that contributing to it is painless enough to be something that even people with limited technical knowledge can do.</p> <p>I think this is a really powerful concept that justifies chosing this distribution over other ones even if they are technically superior or if their contributors do fewer mistakes.</p> <p>About being a corporate backed distro, well... this is Free Software, it is our responsibility as a community to prevent the project from drifting because of unethical agendas if there are any.</p> <p>-mirsal</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/why-i-like-ubuntu-0">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/why-i-like-ubuntu-0#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=HzB-G_x5zsU:GDTl2wDHnUM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=HzB-G_x5zsU:GDTl2wDHnUM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=HzB-G_x5zsU:GDTl2wDHnUM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=HzB-G_x5zsU:GDTl2wDHnUM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=HzB-G_x5zsU:GDTl2wDHnUM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=HzB-G_x5zsU:GDTl2wDHnUM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/HzB-G_x5zsU" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/why-i-like-ubuntu-0 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:32:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/uV9mlWQywHQ/becoming-a-gnome-developer http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/becoming-a-gnome-developer <p> <p>I decided to make the jump an to become an active <a href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a> contributor, because I figured out that I really want to be part of its community and to help turning it into something even awesomer. Along the way, I shall slightly change the purpose of this blog into something a bit more personal : i will be documenting my progression, sharing my feelings about this and hopefully be able to highlight what works and what doesn't. I will certainly make mistakes and discover pitfalls and I'll try to write about it so people who want to follow my path can avoid them.</p> <p>I still need to eat and as many of you know, I'm currently doing freelance web development so I will be working on gnomey stuff only in my spare time. Hopefully, I will eventually be able to do it full time but as of today this is not the case, so I will be going at a moderate pace.</p> <p>So, I'm starting with <a href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove">Gnome-Love</a> stuff, they are a good way to introduce myself to GNOME development while getting my hands in a lot of different modules. (and as I'm a bit depressed these days, I can drown myself in repetitive code editing while exploring a lot of code)</p> <p>So far, I proposed a <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615164">minor patch in empathy</a> and two <a href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals">GnomeGoals</a> patches to <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577469">gdl</a> and <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615653">network-manager-applet</a>. I learnt not to forget to check for the API version on new Gtk+ code and to be careful about not mixing tabs / spaces for indentation in patches (I'm used to space-only indentation, so I did not notice that the nm-applet mixes tabs and spaces. I then updated my patch not to change any whitespace in the lines I edited)</p> <p>PS: I would greatly appreciate if someone would be willing to mentor me a little for the begining of my journey in the GNOME community (by that, I mean looking from time to time at what I do and give me occasional advices and insights)</p> <p> </p> <p>-mirsal</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/becoming-a-gnome-developer">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/becoming-a-gnome-developer#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=uV9mlWQywHQ:7GHP5up7Gy4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=uV9mlWQywHQ:7GHP5up7Gy4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=uV9mlWQywHQ:7GHP5up7Gy4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=uV9mlWQywHQ:7GHP5up7Gy4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=uV9mlWQywHQ:7GHP5up7Gy4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=uV9mlWQywHQ:7GHP5up7Gy4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/uV9mlWQywHQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/becoming-a-gnome-developer Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:38:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/A2FKRnDjvy8/think-twice-before-posting-stuff-online http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/think-twice-before-posting-stuff-online <p> <p>It's been a long time since I last posted here. I was a bit busy and I didn't feel like blogging.</p> <p>Today, I found out how easy it is to screw-up about how you look like online, and it cost me a lot (not money, but something much more important. However what I lost is not the purpose of this blog post, and the story behind it is much more interesting and should serve as a warning for those who don't take much care about how they appear online)</p> <p>Several years ago, i played <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game">live-action role-playing games</a>, of which photos were posted online. They are like standard table-top role playing games but instead of sitting around a table, they happen live, in the physical world. Just like standard roleplaying games, the principle is to play a character following a scenario, set up ahead of the game, with the advantage of usually happening outdoors, and they require physical efforts. The ones I played were either modern war scenarios or were set up in the universe of "The Matrix" movies and they both involved firearms, so we got gun replicas and outfits that matched our characters. Like most role playing games they involve more walking and talking than anything else, and there is no such thing as competition in them.</p> <p>However, while I am a pacifist, I appeared on photos with gun replicas and military outfits.</p> <p>At the time, the only people who got to see these pictures were friends close enough to know about role playing games, and to be aware of my opinions about war and violence, which I'm usually very vocal about, so they weren't much of a problem being on Facebook. The thing is, as social network usage habits changed, more people who didn't know about these role playing games or who I did not yet annoy with my usual world peace theories went to see these pictures while I had forgoten about them.</p> <p>And this is were things went bad. I guess you can imagine what happens when someone stumbles upon pictures of you that, when taken out of their context make you look like some freak found of guns. Let me make this clear : when people see photos of you that make you look bad, there is nothing you can do.</p> <p>Life taught me a lesson the hard way, and I hope that it will help you to avoid doing the same kind of mistake.</p> <p>In short: before posting *anything* online, *always* take a step back and ask yourself what it can mean to people who don't know about their context.</p> <p>-mirsal</p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/think-twice-before-posting-stuff-online">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/think-twice-before-posting-stuff-online#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=A2FKRnDjvy8:do3Ufdd739I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=A2FKRnDjvy8:do3Ufdd739I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=A2FKRnDjvy8:do3Ufdd739I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=A2FKRnDjvy8:do3Ufdd739I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=A2FKRnDjvy8:do3Ufdd739I:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=A2FKRnDjvy8:do3Ufdd739I:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/A2FKRnDjvy8" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/think-twice-before-posting-stuff-online Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:16:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/qF6qeQLSLhY/preview-of-the-future-gnome-desktop-shell-on http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/preview-of-the-future-gnome-desktop-shell-on <p> <p>In the past two weeks, I've been test-driving the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell" title="Gnome desktop shell" target="_blank">gnome desktop shell preview</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;on an <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a> powered <a href="http://shop.winux.fr/catalogue/portables-winux-tablet-pc/3343-winux-tablet-tactile/" target="_blank">tablet PC</a>. It was a really interesting experience in that it allowed me to have a little piece of idea of what it will be like to use the open source <a href="http://www.gnome.org" target="_blank">GNOME</a> desktop in the near future. I've used it both in my everyday life - I tend to use my computer a lot - and at work, mainly for web development. ie: to get things done, not to tinker, hack or play around, This is the point of view of a user who just wants the operating system to stay out of the way.</p> <p><em>Disclaimer</em>: It is future technology, this piece of software is in its early stages of development and it is not meant to be used by non-developers / testers yet. I'll ignore the quirks and bugs I encountered (there weren't that many and apart from not being as reactive as a regular ubuntu karmic and having some hiccups from time to time, things went pretty well)</p> <p>So, first things first: The gnome shell is a piece of software that handles things like starting applications and switching between them.&nbsp;It has basically two states:</p> <p>The first one is when I'm using an application. The shell is then the only visible user interface element that is not part of the application window. Its most important part is the "Activities" button on the top left corner of the screen.</p> <p>The second one is the activities view which I could enter either by touching the activities button when using my fingers or by "hitting" the screen corner with the pointer when using a mouse or the trackpad.</p> <p>The activities view scales down the application windows and places them so they don't overlap, along with a side panel on the right hand part of the screen, which shows the icon and name of each running or frequently used application. (there is a subtle glow effect behind the behind the names of the running applications which makes it easy to tell which applications are running), a places part composed of the icons of the "Places" menu of the current GNOME desktop, and a list of the last documents opened.</p> <p>There is a big (+) button on the bottom right of the screen that creates vritual desktops on the fly when clicking on it.</p> <p>If you're a MacOSX user, you can think of the activity view as a mix of spaces, expos&eacute; and the dock, all at once, and if you use Ubuntu, it's like if the compiz scale plugin, X11 virtual desktops and Gnome-do's docky interface had a threesome.</p> <p>You can drag and drop any icon or window to a workspace in order to move or open the application, file or folder in this workspace,</p> <p>There is a search input and a 'more' button on top of the application icons that displays something that looks like the current GNOME's 'Applications' menu.</p> <p>When clicking on an application icon, the shell takes you to the application if it's running, or launches it if it's not, Simple, right ?</p> <p>The user interface creates a flow that's pretty obvious: When using an application, to do something else, touch the activities button or move your mouse to it, then click&nbsp;the big (+) button and select or search for what you want to do or open. This way, windows do not stack, they remain perfectly organized, and that's a no-brainer.</p> <p>Needless to say that all of this is animated and windows move smoothly when you reorganize them, change workspace, start applications etc.</p> <p>GNOME shell is particularly well adapted for both touchscreen and traditional laptop navigation, so I could go from laptop mode to tablet mode with real ease (I usually put rhythmbox in fullscreen on it at small parties, with the display rotated (so it looks like a small touch panel) and I let the people browse and select music.If I need to type faster than with the on-screen keyboard, I go back to a laptop and everything goes really smoothly as the shell is as suited to touchscreen navigation as it is to traditional laptoppy touchpad + keyboard navigation or a mix of the two.</p> <p><em>In a nutshell,</em> (no pun intended) the GNOME shell really is promising and as soon as I came back to the traditional Ubuntu desktop (plain "old" GNOME 2.28 and compiz) I started missing the shell's power and simplicity. It still feels way more natural than the current GNOME. I'm eager to see what the gnome community will do with it, especially about zeitgeist integration.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I hope you found this interesting !</p> <p>If this is the case, you should follow me on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mirsal">twitter</a>&nbsp;or <a href="http://identi.ca/mirsal">identi.ca</a> :)</p> <p>Anyway, I'd love to have feedback.</p> <p>More about me here:&nbsp;<a href="http://mirsal.magntize.com/">http://mirsal.magntize.com/</a></p> <p>Grab my <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MirsalsBlog">RSS Feed</a></p> </p> <p><a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/preview-of-the-future-gnome-desktop-shell-on">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/preview-of-the-future-gnome-desktop-shell-on#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=qF6qeQLSLhY:w7UmLLm5L-4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=qF6qeQLSLhY:w7UmLLm5L-4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=qF6qeQLSLhY:w7UmLLm5L-4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=qF6qeQLSLhY:w7UmLLm5L-4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?a=qF6qeQLSLhY:w7UmLLm5L-4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mirsal?i=qF6qeQLSLhY:w7UmLLm5L-4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mirsal/~4/qF6qeQLSLhY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/184777/elfen_lied46--GS.gif http://posterous.com/users/4bmLM3da7GJb Mirsal Ennaime Mirsal Mirsal Ennaime http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/preview-of-the-future-gnome-desktop-shell-on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:20:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mirsal/~3/U-Kck5XSTqM/gnome-shell-is-starting-to-become-interesting http://blog.mirsal.ennaime.org/gnome-shell-is-starting-to-become-interesting <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/mirsal/SwjgPh2Yaoe2d4WJKk1Korz0jRUmj4BReLWxyId7cMoJNGCK1OPJFwV79oI8/Capture.png.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Capture" height="313" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/mirsal/WKNWNgw05j58MeaoV9szqFiNMfNoWCNxoW31qa42dfGTbkJnJOucbSaIn3KF/Capture.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p>Some time ago, I tried gnome shell to see what it was like: ugly and full of bugs. 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