Seth: “Stop worrying about ideas and get back to work” isn’t an accurate paraphrase. I prefer: if you have an idea, do the work to make it happen. The realistic path is probably twisty — having a goal in mind does not imply a straight line to get there. Sometimes the work involves writing code; […]
Seth: for every cool thing that someone does, there were 100 people sitting around saying “we should do something cool” 😉 Keep making it happen. People forget too quickly how huge some of the battles were that made GNOME what it is today. In my day, we didn’t have time-based releases or basic UI sanity […]
Speaking of copying Microsoft instead of innovating, should gnome-vfs really be a UNIX-like interface to bytestreams, or should it be more, say a general purpose data model with an evolutionary upgrade path from the hierarchical filesystem and features such as cross-machine synchronization. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2003–10.html#29)
I’m well into Robert Love’s new book, Linux Kernel Development. The book rocks; a concise, readable explanation of all the major pieces of the kernel, how they work, how to use them. Now if only I had time to apply this knowledge. 😉 Really I just want to sound cool by using a lot of […]
Since GTK+ went UTF‑8, GTK+ programs have had to figure out text encoding (even for Latin‑1 users, who often happily ignored it before). The rule we beat people over the head with is that all text must be either: In some way encoding-tagged, like HTML Defined by specification to be in a particular encoding Joel […]
I bought a new notebook, so am geeking out with that. Fedora Core is working nicely. Sadly, no drivers for the built-in Cisco wireless card, other than the not-in-the-upstream-kernel ones and they just oops on load. Lockdown discussion resumes, which is great. So nice to have a lot of interest in this at last. GNOME […]
Tried jumping to GNOME 2.5, with some broken local gconf changes. Lost all my settings. Then GTK+ 2.3 rather than 2.2 breaks the GTK+ version of Emacs somehow; the buffer and the toolbar end up with focus at the same time. So every time you hit Enter while editing it activates one of the toolbar […]