Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
At Openismus I am currently supporting Canonical to implement Application Indicators for Ubuntu Lucid.
Application indicators are simple menus so it is easier and more consistent to interact with them than with the current notification area icons, where each icon behaves differently. Some are showing different popup menus on left and ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
I have been added to Planet GNOME, so a short introduction:
My name is Jan Arne Petersen, I am a 27 years old software developer living near Cologne, Germany and working at Openismus. I am involved in the GNOME project since 2002. In this time I contributed features and bug fixes ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
As announced by Murray I have started working at Openismus. Two of the tasks I did in the first week:
Clutter Tutorial
I updated the source code examples of the Clutter tutorial written by Murray to make them run with the current unstable development version of Clutter. I never used Clutter before ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
I don't like such applications on my N810:
The application could be ported to use a HildonWindow if compiled for the maemo platform. But it would be much easier if there were an abstract GTK+ widget which would allow it to add a menu and toolbars to a window in a ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Beside the hidden scrollable interface there is another interface hidden in GtkWidgetClass::activate_signal.
See Bug 532795 for an implementation of an explicit Activatable interface to replace this class variable.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I don't like to search my rhythmbox icon in the notification area. There is a patch attached to bug 531282 which provides a solution (GConf-Key: /apps/panel/applets/{$notification-area-applet}/prefs/order).
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
In GTK+ 2 there are scrollable widgets like GtkTreeView, GtkTextView or GtkViewport but no GtkScrollable interface. Instead a scrollable widget is defined by a "set_scroll_adjustments" signal, which id is written to the GtkWidgetClass::set_scroll_adjustments_signal class variable.
If a scrollable widget is added to a GtkScrolledWindow the set_scroll_adjustments_signal is called and the hadjustment ...
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