Advogato blog for Jody

27 Jan 2004 - January 27, 2004

I'm visiting Boston this week so things are quite social. It's always a pleasure to be able to meet up (and have some cider) with people. Yesterday got off to an early start with a 4:30am pickup for the airport. Thankfully the kids slept well so I managed to get a bit of sleep. Did some poking at printers and the like, then headed off to the first meeting of the new Board. _Lots_ of new energy. This promises to be the best board yet. The evening was also nice as I had the chance to see..
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13 Jan 2004 - January 13, 2004

By day Did a final round on the GtkAction updates. Things look reasonable and went in this evening. We can now do useful things like Get global notification before and after an action Change visibility or sensitivity for entire groups Avoid notification of an activation when opening submenus Share more of the proxy connection mechanism for custom toolitems Added an install-time kludge to gnome-icon-theme to validate that the base hicolor theme was installed. Then wasted 2 hours fighting...
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9 Jan 2004 - January 9, 2004

Gtk More GtkAction fun. You'll soon be able to desensitize entire ction groups in one go. Even more fun, I'll get my long standing wish to be able to have a hook befor eand after an action at the app level. Reworked the icon theme warning, and poked tim on GSF_CLASS. GNOME-Print Tried to replicate the blank crash and couldn't but valgrind did complain a bit about a minor issue in gtksourceview, patched that. Not at all thrilled with the notion of doing any more locale bogosity as suggested..
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7 Jan 2004 - January 7, 2004

Gnumeric The initial jump to GtkAction is in CVS. Its given me a chance to clean up some really ancient code. Things don't work completely but the basic elements are there. This new interface has promise. Now that the jumbo patch is out of my tree I can commit a few of the pending patches - Nick's xor's encryption import for xls - JGill's re-freeze option - JHM's header fix for the ia64 breakage on 1.2 The single element charting extension is not quite ready to go in. However, a new patch..
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6 Jan 2004 - January 6, 2004

Up early and had a 'frank exchange of views' with Michael on the appropriateness of adding OOo to the gnome-office web page. They have ten gazillion marking pages and vast resources. GNOME-Office had one teenly little page, that we can never update because we don't remember where it lives. Oh well, we've agreed to disagree on this topic. At least we found the module and I've updated it a smidge. More poking in Gtk, submitted a patch for indentun-indent icons. Some discussion on GtkAction.
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