Category: Software
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Deskbar and leaftag, last-exit
Desktop 2.0 Just because the blog writer is open i feel the need to post a screenshot of deskbar working with leaftag (it’s all betaware, but.. it r0cks !) Choose one or more files, right-click and Tag Enter the tags with an Ãœber cool dialog Summon deskbar enter a tag, and voila ! Desktop 2.0…
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DBus Testing Framework
Hello dbus coders out here, i’m pleased to announce the first release of a dbus testing framework. What is it ? You may know that testing dbus services or debugging dbus clients is not always easy since it involves creating services and wiring up things you don’t really want to do in a test script.…
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Epiphany URL entry in monospace
This is a nice trick i didn’t know about. If you ever wanted to have a monospaced font for your location entry in epiphany (it works with galeon too), because monospace is nice, and easier to correct, and you can spot errors, here is how: Put this in a file called ~/.gnome2/epiphanyrc: style “mono” {…
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FOSDEM
A quick note to let you know i’ll be present at the FOSDEM this weekend, and i hope to see some gnome heads there, live.gnome.org page about the Brussels event has a great talks schedule and some people coming there, nice ! I’ll be present at the Ubuntu-be meeting, to hear Ploum’s speech… If you…
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Deskbar 2.13.9x series and invest-applet
Deskbar Beta A little update on the deskbar-story. We managed to introduce the incredible new UI in the beta releases of deskbar (2.13.9x series). This was thanks to the hard work of Mikkel Kamstrup, and the moral support of Nigel Tao. They both have nice juicy screenshots and screencasts made with the 1337 tool byzanz.…
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Fun with python
Fun python snippets Here is a short list of python WTF’s i often come across in my own code, debugging those is quite hard.. Tuples are immutable ? a = ([],[]) try: # Modifying a tuple ? a[0] += [1] except: pass print a Weird list references: a = [[None]*4]*3 a[0][0] = 1 print a…
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Stock Trading, yay !
On stock trading Stock trading is fun.. well, when you make money of course. There are days when you wish you didn’t buy that crappy stock, today it’s intel. They released apparently bad numbers yesterday and took the plunge: Uh oh ! Invest Applet This leads me to the introduction of Invest, a replacement/companion for…
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To Flush Or Not To Flush
Ok, I swear this is not me. … Moreover, I wasn’t hacking on epiphany, but reading Slashdot !
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deskbar-applet hotness
Deskbar Applet Recently Nigel Tao posted on desktop-devel the announce of deskbar-applet, which was intended as a browser-like keyword-driven url bar. You type a web address, or an email address, or a file name, or some keyword then the arguments, an it shows a popup with possible choices from there, like “Search google for foo”.…
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Gedit Python Plugins
I have been putting together a python plugin system for gedit, so far it seems to work: I heavily used the nautilus-python, and epiphany source code to see how this is done, thanks to them ! Notice how the window title has been updated by the command in the console. The clever reader may also…