Archive - 2005

… that pressing v in less brings up an editor? In my case it opens vim (don't know whether it reads the editor from env - v == visual editor - or v == vim).

Update: visual editor (read from EDITOR), with vi being the default.

Jensen Harris says that I won the quiz for the 5 mostly used Word 2k3 commands.

Take a look at my prize and be jealous ;-)

Ross asks Do you love Open Source?

I totally have to say that I don't love Free Software only. Especially I love working in a Free Software environment. To explain my point of view I'm going to tell some stories I got involved to at work:

Bug Tracking

There is an ongoing petition to ask for enforcing open standards in communication processes inside the German parliament and also for communication with non-mps

So, after my Powerbooks graphic device started to produce weird things I started to do more of my work on my desktop.

Yesterday I wanted to start the computer and it doesn't do anything anymore. I think it's the AC adapter again (I had this kind of problem 8 months ago, took one whole month to be reparied...).

So, now I contacted the manufacturer and they're going to send a brand new AC adapter (which is more powerful) to me and I only need to pay the difference between the price of the old one and the price of the new one.

When I bought my Quickcam two months ago I started to look for a nice webcam application.

It didn't take long until I found camorama. Unfortunately not everything within this application went as smooth as it could, so I started to do some minor hacking and contact Greg to ask him whether I can try to improve it a bit (especially those filters don't seem to work perfectly yet).

Today I got answer from Greg and he's giving me the freedom to explore and modify the camorama tree to adopt it to my needs.

So, after doing some cool presentation hacking the last week I started to extend and refactor Camorama now.

Today we're having the party for the beginning of the semester. We#re playing our music with rhythmbox, managing the files with nautilus, and finally... we're capturing pictures with my webcam. Everything went so smoothly and I just enjoy the update to breezy which I did yesterday just because "I felt bored" and "the other dist-upgrades went so well".

So now we have a working driver for the Quickcam 4000 (thanks to the Ubuntu folks), a great desktop and music playing application.

Free Software just rocks...

Another possible victory over proprietary drivers…

This week I finished a big step forward for criawips: Editing of text in existing presentations.

This is an important step towards a usable application, now I just need to get a working implementation of templates and adding new text blocks and hey, we can release 0.1 (0.0.10 should be released this weekend).

Screenshot? You don't get one, here's my first istanbul video:

I didn't blog/hack for quite some time now (maybe except some minor bug fixing for some apps from Ubunut Breezy); the last 2 days I happily found time to hack on criawips.

I'm working on the editing stuff now, but I have some issues with to few documentation about using the Pango Layout class. Is there documentation about using the layout for custom widgets/etc. that need to support editing (that means especially stuff like cursor navigation, selections and text insertion)? I find the GtkEntry code very big for example code.

At least my code works now for text which is centered and aligned to the top of a display block. More work for sunday...