Category: Gentoo

gecko-sharp, ipod, servers

I finally got around to verifying my gecko-sharp/https bug with latexer and reporting it upstream. Basically, the gecko WebControl widget crashes when accessing SSL/https, while epiphany/mozilla handle things fine. This’ll be a showstopper for the new Glimmr, thanks to the whole new Yahoo/Flickr authentication system.

I received my 60G iPod yesterday, so there went a whole night of ripping my CD collection. Yet to play with it under linux, as soon as I get the newest rhythmbox into portage I’ll play with it and GtkPod. I’m also looking forward to having a go at Calendar/Contact sync’ing which was worked on as part of a Gnome.org bounty.

Finally, I’ll be working the weekend tomorrow and reinstalling our file server at work. It’s currently running some ancient Mandrake version, installed by the tech guy before me. I’ve got to be a bit careful as it’s holding about 500G of graphics work for the “pretty pictures department” that I really don’t want to lose.

gnome bugfixing

In the last three or so days we’ve closed 33 bugs, so I thought a congratulatory “Hola!” was in order for the GNOME team. Hey, it may not be much of a dent in our sizeable… buglist, but at least it’s a start considering we haven’t been that active lately.

In other GNOME news, John (AllanonJL) posted our GTK USE flag solution to gentoo-dev. If you’ve been doing the rock thing lately, you could read it here. John’s really been the driving force behind us getting organised to do this. It’s been on the cards for sometime, but here’s to momentum.

Gnome, 2.12 and bugfixing

I’ve been back for a week or so now, thanks to everyone who mentioned it was “nice to have you back”. I’ve taken some time today to get going on our buglist, mostly solving 2.12 related bugs that have cropped up. Probably the easiest was a patch for seahorse-0.7.9 to compile with GNOME 2.12’s gedit. It was a nice reward to find out that seahorse was actually a pretty cool application once it built.

Now to understand this whole GPG thing.