Aaron, I don’t really get your post on some level. I feel I’m missing something. The whole argument I’ve been repeatedly making on xdg list is that GNOME will not adopt a “D‑Conf” unless it’s actually better than GConf, and of course Waldo says the same with respect to KConfig. For the record, I don’t […]
In an earlier post I mentioned the book On Intelligence, the author Jeff Hawkins has now started a company called Numenta. This is what I wanted to do when I was in school — take a reverse-engineering pragmatic approach to figuring out how to copy human intelligence. I couldn’t figure out how to do it […]
I’ve been trying to get “D‑Conf” discussions on the rails; some people don’t seem to understand that this is about creating a certain user experience for admins, programmers, and end users. The requirements flow from that, not from a bunch of technology modules or libraries that are available. I was recently reading a report on […]
Take down the photo, it burns… (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2005–04.html#7)
Ross, maybe just fixing this bug would be better than a tray icon; the main intended application of the “urgency hint” is exactly the “you have new IM” type of thing. Plus you get to use my horrible “make a GtkWidget flash in a theme-friendly way” hack and terrify your neighbors 😉 (This post was […]
People are always using my name for an 37337 nick; most recently there’s someone posting comments on LWN with login “havoc” (I am “hp”). Unfortunately these are often not comments I agree with, and people attribute them to me. Please don’t attribute them to me. For all I know the same thing happens on Slashdot […]
Nice article from a Word for Mac developer echoing my stock reply to most Metacity feature requests. Question: will I get more flames or less flames if I start quoting Microsoft in bugzilla? 😉 (Of course the guy is wrong that open source won’t do the root cause thinking, since he describes pretty much exactly […]
This article says: To sum it all up: OSS developers should learn to live with the fact that their software is no longer exclusively used by geeks and enthusiasts– and if they cannot cope with this, then clearly state that your software is a hobby project– this will save a lot of hassle and takes […]
The thing I like about Pages is the handling of “semantic styles” and their relationship to “text formatting” — while OO.org has a “styles” feature it’s pretty clunky and the details are all wrong. Pages has a good model for how styles relate to the text formatting — to see it you have to enable […]
Marc, desktop-backgrounds-extra sounds plausible to me, if I remember that’s the one with outer space photos. The only problem I can think of there is if it’s the same SRPM as fedora-backgrounds (the add/remove suggestions have to be according to SRPM, not RPM). If so then there’s some work to split it apart or maybe […]