Application Indicators

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 ...

Fremantle Hildon Desktop

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

The source code of the Hildon Desktop for Maemo Fremantle including the hildon-deskop, libhildondesktop, hildon-home and hildon-status-menu components, which I worked on for the last year at Openismus, moved to a public git repository at maemo.gitorious.org. It is now easier to track the current developments or create your own modified ...

Clutter Tutorial

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

With the unstable developers release of Clutter 0.7.0 there were some API changes related to the new layout system. So I did another update of the examples and text in Openismus' Clutter tutorial (also available as PDF). Coming from a GTK+ background I really like the new layout abilities including ...

Hello Planet

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 ...

Openismus, Clutter Tutorial and Tool Palette

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 ...