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During the past two weeks I was assigned to work on sapwood a little more than usual. My current goal for sapwood is to drop the GDK based rendering (which will disappear from GTK+ 3.0 once Company's rendering-cleanup branch gets merged). The transition towards a cairo-only core of sapwood will also be required in order to properly integrate with Carlos' work on the new GtkThemingEngine API (which is supposed to land in 3.0 as well).

So I spent the last two weeks developing test cases for sapwood's rendering results. After finishing those, the real refactoring started. Right now, the cairo-transition for SapwoodPixmap is almost finished (the part in the theming engine that does the actual drawing).

I also finally got around to refactor the image cropping code (it was actually doing very similar things four times due to copy'n'paste and the short time available when developing this feature).

I wanted to get a little closer to the "writing tests first" paradigm. But I realized that it was too painful to execute "make check" (or whatever) after my changes, I decided to develop a graphical front end to the GLib/GTK+ unit testing system: Gutachter



Packages for Fedora 12 are available, for other distrubutions you can kindly ask…

A big Thank You! goes to Andreas, who created the icons for that project quite some time ago (and actually for a different project, but here we go).

Happy using, bug reporting, hacking and happy translating…

As I‘ve been happily trying out the OpenSuse Build Service, and I wanted to have a presentation about it at the Lanedo apres-conference, I decided to package a recent version of tracker.

I managed to package it within an hour and then decided to need a use-case for these new packages. I picked GNOME Launch Box and after some hacking, I managed to properly replace the application search module by a tracker based module. It was pretty straight-forward to develop that module (after getting a bit into SparQL).

I even ended up doing some more cleanups and finally dropped libgnomeui and libgnomevfs.

I'm really looking forward to replace even more backends with tracker-based ones.

Last weekend Lanedo brought its hackers to Brussels, mostly for attending FOSDEM. We‘ve had a delicious joint dinner on Friday evening and attended the conference on Saturday. Just as in the past, the conference has been nice with all the people around and all the good talks.

I mostly spent time in the GNOME presentation room and the hackers room upstairs. Even though I decided for a pet project to be developed during the weekend (some random widget that will be developed later), I ended up doing something completely different (will blog about it later).

On Monday we‘ve had a nice apres-conf with the Lanedians at the hotel. We got a presentation of the first year of Lanedo in the business and a nice presentation about future plans of the company.

After flying back with Tim and Martyn, we realized how warm Brussels actually was. Hamburg was a lot colder, totally snowy, windy and the footways are icy and really dangerous.

In the afternoon I will visit the new Lanedo office for the first time.

So, ich hab' grade meine Fotos vom Gran Canaria Desktop Summit bei Flickr hochgeladen:

Just a moment ago at the GNOME booth…