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or: prepare-ChangeLog.pl - now git-flavored

So, today I got fed up by our prepare-ChangeLog.pl to not support git at all. Fernando the Brave added support for Subversion 3.5 years ago, and now I decided to add support for git.

Chatting with Fernando and Olav we decided to move the script from web-devel-2 into the releng module and then I committed my changes on top. So, now the script is saved from Nirvana (which web-devel-2 will hopefully end up, soon) and is located next to Martyn's maintainer.py.

Webkit/GTK+ is a really nice thing already. It still has it's rough edges, but it already works really nicely.

Dear Lazyweb,

today I had a problem debugging a GTK+ module (libatk-bridge.so). It threw a warning which looked like it was coming from my application:

** (criawips:26563): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.

By using grep I realized pretty quickly that the message didn't come from my application. The gdb was at least able to tell me where the meesage came from (after breaking on g_log):

(gdb) bt
#0 IA__g_log (log_domain=0x0, log_level=G_LOG_LEVEL_WARNING,

Thomas wollte, dass ich nochmal was zum Thema UMTS blogge, damit er dann meine Erkenntnisse nurnoch umsetzen muss. Seit ich mit der Spielerei angefangen habe, hat sich in der Linux-Welt auch schon wieder einiges getan: das eingebaute UMTS-Modem muss mittlerweile nicht mehr über das Modul usbserial angesteuert werden, sondern kann jetzt durch das Modul sierra betrieben werden, das dann bei den meisten Distributionen auch automatisch geladen wird.

I'm leaving to Hamburg today to spend the next week at Hanover. Linux New Media was so kind to offer a booth to the German GNOME community. Josh will also be there the whole time, MacSlow and maybe others will join us for the weekend.

So, it's been almost a week since we released Giggle. We've been happily receiving lots of love in the form of emails, bug reports, suggestions, patches and even debian packages. Now we think it's time to share some love with you, so let's giggle together.

Doing so is pretty easy: you can subscribe to the giggle mailing list or join the Jabber chat room giggle on conference.imendio.com.

GNOME Launch Box is an application launcher inspired by QuickSilver. You can find more information at the project page.

Downloads

Today Innotek released its virtualization product VirtualBox as free software. Unfortunately it comes only with a QT interface, but maybe that changes…

Canek Peláez Valdés is creating a nice geometry application (english) based upon the CCC canvas library. There's even a really interesting flash demo (english) that demonstrates some of the ideas for the application.

He's blogging a lot right now, which might be a pretty nice addition for Planet GNOME Hispano.

So I finally made it to Berlin again. If you like to see some canvas demos or discuss some code with me, feel free to contact herzberg.sven@googlemail.com via Jabber.