Elijah posted a humble note about Easy GIT, but don’t be deceived. Easy GIT is completely usable for daily work, and it’s a one-file perl script you can just add to your path. It hides git almost completely and is pretty much exactly what I’ve been looking for. Elijah rocks, which I already knew, but […]
For the GTK+ hackfest I wanted to start a discussion about why people are doing custom “canvas” things (HippoCanvas, Clutter, GooCanvas, Pigment, etc.) and how GTK+ could evolve to address the same problems. The proposal in a nutshell is that widgets should be one kind of object in a more flexible scene graph. But there […]
Browsing from an old interview with Elijah I found a post I wrote a couple years ago. Here is an idea I still like, but had forgotten to keep using: The old usability cliche “users are busy not stupid” is exactly right, because the issue is that they are busy doing something and they will […]
Spent part of today torturing the Clutter guys with disruptive, untested patches … woo hoo! (I do plan to clean up and debug the patch, if the idea goes over well.) Clutter is a pretty fun change from the usual 2D toolkit stuff, and nicely done in general. The other day I also wrote up […]
My new company is called LiTL, and we have some job listings up. We’re looking for desktop developers, web developers, QA engineers, and Linux distribution wranglers, among others. Send us a note (to jobs @ litl) to introduce yourself. We’d love to meet you and tell you more about the company. (This post was originally […]
I thought this was a good post on how to recognize and hire good software developers if you aren’t a software developer yourself. Or even if you are a software developer yourself. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2008-02.html#4)
Jeff started a blog thread about handling out-of-memory. For anyone who’s interested in this, check out D-Bus (or rather, the libdbus C implementation of D-Bus) for an example of nontrivial code that attempts to handle out-of-memory. I would wildly guess that the OOM handling adds 30-40% or so to the number of lines of code, […]
If you want to play with compositing on Fedora 8 using the Intel drivers, here’s how I got it working. For testing, you can run a second X server on the hardware. However, you first need to disable DRI on the main X server (and not use a compositing WM on the main X server). […]
Goal: run Compiz in a nested X server. Or really, any X server that is not the one I’m using for real work. List O’ Failures: “Screw it, just run the regular X server on another virtual console.” DRI can only be used on one console at a time. Lose. “Xephyr supports GLX in latest […]
Does anyone know a way to hack on a GL-based compositing manager such as Compiz in a nested X server? I didn’t even try Xnest assuming there’s no way it works; Xephyr has GLX and Composite but Compiz reports that the root window has the wrong visual; Xgl appears to be dead (?) and isn’t […]