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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).

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.

Thanks to Lanedo, I'm able to visit the Maemo Summit this year again.

I'm pretty excited about the things they will show off there.

Lanedo was so kind to offer a notebook upgrade for me and on Tuesday I happily received a ThinkPad X200 Tablet.

I will spend the following weeks setting up the machine to replace my current X60s by Fedora 12's release date.

Wednesday evening I started to install Fedora 12 Alpha via USB pendrive and managed to get a bootable device. The screen was flickering like hell and, after a large upgrade yesterday, things are usable now.

The next step will be to get the Wacom tablet working. Fedora has a pretty recent Xorg server (Ubuntu is actually lagging behind this one); but the wacom drivers don't seem to work with it yet…

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