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Tuesday 13 September 2005

Announcing pessulus

pessulus is a lockdown editor for GNOME, written in python. I've released version 0.1 today.

I'm pretty sure that pessulus is not HIG compliant, but guess what: it's the goal for the next release. The UI probably need a big overhaul to be more logical. I'd be glad if some people could take a look at it (or only at the glade file). And a patch would be fantastic ;-)

Also, if you know of some settings that should be in a lockdown editor and that are not in pessulus, let me know.

Contributions are of course welcome: patches, translations, documentation, etc. As it's written in python, it's really easy to start coding on it, fixing bugs and adding features. The code is in CVS (module: pessulus).

This is my first pygtk application. I wanted to create one since months but I didn't want to create something useless and I lacked some free time. But thanks to Murray's idea and some bad weather this week-end, I could take a look at pygtk. Some functions I needed were not wrapped, so there are some workarounds in the code, but that was not a big problem. I absolutely love pygtk.

Tuesday 6 September 2005

2.12 Splash Screen

I'm surprised nobody noticed that we now features a cool new splash screen:

GNOME 2.12 Splash Screen

It rocks, doesn't it? :-)

Thanks to Thomas for making the splash screen contest possible on GNOME Art and jimmac for choosing the winning entry. You can see why he chose it on GNOME Art.

Wednesday 17 August 2005

The bug day returns!

A new bug day will happen tomorrow. Everyone should come, especially since Luis told me he will hug everyone who joins #bugs. Well... To be honest, he hasn't told it yet. But I'm sure he will!

It's the usual place (#bugs on irc.gnome.org) at the usual time (1500GMT->0300GMT) tomorrow (Thursday, August 18th). We'll focus on all the UNCONFIRMED bugs. We don't want such bugs in our bugzilla, do we?

For more informations about this bug day (and about Luis hugging everyone), see the announce!

Saturday 13 August 2005

Mes retrouvailles avec GNOME

Pour fêter mes retrouvailles avec GNOME, je me suis fait plaisir en mettant des portraits pour mes différents utilisateurs de test sur mon ordinateur afin de pouvoir profiter pleinement de l'applet fast user switch. Bon, il faut dire que mes utilisateurs de test s'appellent Mario et Pikachu ;-)

Avec le retour des vacances s'annonce un programme chargé, notamment en ce qui concerne GNOME. Il y a tellement de choses importantes à faire... Je crois que je vais commencer par finir cette transition vers gnome-doc-utils pour tous les modules. Ce n'est pas dur et cela demande juste du temps. D'ailleurs, si quelques personnes veulent aider, elles sont les bienvenues : il y a un petit guide qui explique comment faire et je suis prêt à répondre à toute question.

Pour ceux qui ne le savent pas encore, gnome-doc-utils permet de construire les documentations facilement et surtout, de faciliter la traduction des documentations et la maintenance de celles-ci (traductions, pas documentations). Il parait aussi que les filles vous aiment plus...

Tuesday 19 July 2005

gnome-panel is now using gnome-doc-utils

I'm glad to report that gnome-panel is now using gnome-doc-utils! This means the help files distributed with gnome-panel will now be easier to translate. Many thanks to Danilo and Shaun for their help!

I created a page on the wiki to track the modules that have been migrated. There's not enough green on this page! Please help. Migrating is not hard and you can get some help in #docs. There's even a guide available to help you start.

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by Vincent