Advogato blog for Jody

20 Feb 2004 - February 20, 2004

Awakened around 2 by the wee lad arriving in our bed. Remained awake due to irregular kicks to various bits of anatomy until the wee lad left to watch Dora the Explora around 6:30. Have spent the last few days wading through all of the important control-centre bugs. What a depressing mess. Things are getting marginally better, but there is still a huge amount of ugliness. Mime types are just a mess. On a less depressing note the printer working groups are moving quickly. The papi...
http://www.advogato.org/person/Jody/diary.html?start=55

12 Feb 2004 - February 12, 2004

Today was a good day. The heat is back on. Yay! The %! file type capplet understands icon themes We have not one but two web monkeys preparing to spruce up the gnome-office web site. We're just doing a run off now t o decide between this one or this one.
http://www.advogato.org/person/Jody/diary.html?start=54

9 Feb 2004 - February 9, 2004

Hmm, apparently it's kinda cold out there. Our furnace cut out early Friday morning. It was a balmy +1C outside that night so sleep was snuggly. By morning the house was a tad chilly. Thankfully the service folk came by quickly to have a look and replaced a control board. In technical terms is was apparently 'rather confused'. Unfortunately the source of the confusion appears to have been a leak in an overflow tube which is conveniently placed directly above the confused hardware. The...
http://www.advogato.org/person/Jody/diary.html?start=53

6 Feb 2004 - February 6, 2004

Finally had a chance to do some gnumeric hacking last night and solved the XL crashing on exported macros problem. Released 1.2.6 (or at least did a tarball for release tonight) with that patch and a pile of fixes for labels in the charting engine. Work continues in HEAD towards a fully gnome-optional build. We'll still use all the nifty toys if they are available (gnome-vfs, gconf etc) but we can scale back to gtk only if necessary for win32.
http://www.advogato.org/person/Jody/diary.html?start=52