Postings tagged with Google Summer of Code
Dear Kids
Dear Davyd and Anonymous: I really hope you guys grow up one day and realize something must be wrong with your attitude when you react on slight critism with words like "Politely, please go eat a dick" or "It's like a murderer hating to see the police, sry...".
Update: I took the "vegetarian" out the title, 'cause I do ...
Spell Checking for the Masses
Recently I needed spell checking support for some cairo (and Pango) based canvas widget. Should be easy to pick, considering there are several aproaches to implement spell checking for GTK+ widgets, like gtkspell or libsexy. Unfortunatly those pretty libraries have the fault of focusing on one single widget only. So equiped with the power of Vala I wrote some small generic spell checking library for GTK+. Instead of directly attaching to some widget this library uses a [simple ...
Automake support for Vala
Using Vala together with automake was quite painful so far. When looking into libvala's Makefile.am for instance you'll see alot of duplication.
So I hacked a little script generating the automake rules needed for vala code. After adding the vala-support script to your autogen.sh script your Makefile.am can look as simple as this:
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libtest.la
libtest_la_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) $(GTK_CFLAGS)
libtest_la_VALAFLAGS = --library=test --pkg=gtk+-2.0
libtest_la_LIBADD = $(GTK_LIBS)
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Final SoC-Status
So the summer of code has reached its hands-down phasis and few minutes before the deadline finally height-for-width support has landed:
Proper support for rotated labels with ellipses also has been backported to GTK+:
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SoC-Status 2007/08/02
I didn't provide a status report for some time, so what happend in extended layout world?
I stopped to waste time with baseline alignment and switched to spreading natural size support over GTK+. As a result of this effort many widgets and one cell renderer are providing and interpreting natural size information now: GtkAlignment, GtkBin, GtkButton, GtkCellRendererText, GtkCellView, GtkFrame, GtkHBox, GtkLabel, GtkSocket, GtkTable and GtkVBox.
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Liquid Bomb Complot
Luis, there was no prevented assault involving liquid bombs in London. There just are airport owners who want to force you to enter their overpriced "duty free" shopping malls. ;-)
At least that's the idea I had when waiting for my flight on Nottingham East-Midlands: My brand-new water bottle was thrown away at the security check, after the check there was ...
GUADEC 2007
Uch, it's almost a week ago, that GUADEC 2007 ended for me early. Appoligies for those of you I've meet, but could not say goodbye on Thursday - I had to get my flight back home. This goes especially to Federico and Phillip. After meeting many GNOME people in person, I know even more than I knew before, that GNOME is the community I belong to. Once again its an ...
SoC-Status 2007/07/02
Last week I wanted to implement something to show, so I started on baseline alignment. First lesson I've learned: The original idea, of just changing the vertical position of the widgets turned out to be thought too simple. Instead of applying the baseline adjustments from the outside by tweaking the ...
SoC-Status 2007/06/28
During the last week I've adding GtkExtendedLayout support to GtkLabel and GtkBin. GtkVBox got some first code to use this extended layout information. Results are not that fancy yet, but the next days should bring some nice break-through.
The test program got rather confusing with all the guides drawn, so it got checkboxes to toggle visibility of certain guide types ...
SoC-Status 2007/06/19
Here comes a new Summer of Code status report.
- I've increased my involvement with the GTK+ team: Took care about some GTK+ bugs. Got permissions to close bugs after applying reviewed patches (see: GtkTasks). During that process I've got more familiar with git-svn - had my first dcommits.
- Wasted time on extending libzip to support extracting PPMd compressed ZIP files ...
SoC-Status 2007/06/07
No much progress on my SoC project: This year the LinuxTag took place in my home town Berlin, so I helped out at GNOME booth there. Nice opportunity to meet some GNOME people. Tim Janik told me about some height-for-width traps - looks like I have to extend my unit tests. Talked with Rob Taylor about some document centric usability improvements for GNOME ...
