Carlos'

Using libindicator-application for fun and profit

Posted December 28th, 2009 by Carlos

After spending two days fighting with DBus, GLib and the several libraries provided by the Ayatana project, I am now confident I know how to proceed implementing support for application indicators and DBus menus in GNOME Shell. The first thing you have to do is connect to indicator-application-service (the process that). You do this by [...]

Tags: dbusmenu, gnome, gnome-shell

Blam development picks up again

Posted March 9th, 2009 by Carlos

I have been on holidays for a few weeks and now I have enough free time that I can continue developing Blam. Today I integrated a patch that adds a context menu to the tray icon and finally implemented drag-and-drop. This means you can move channels into groups, between groups and out of groups by [...]

Tags: blam, debian

Tag support for drivel

Posted June 14th, 2008 by Carlos

As I now have too much free time until I get my exam results, and just to show myself I could, I decided to do something I’ve wanted to for quite a while, namely: to add tag support for MovableType (WordPress) blogs to drivel. I started after at about 19:00 and it’s now 1:10 of [...]

Tags: drivel, gnome, hacking, test

I have a GNOME account

Posted December 25th, 2006 by Carlos

Today I got an e-mail telling me my CVS GNOME account has been accepted. This means I have write access to the Blam repository. Unfortunately, I forgot to transfer the RSA key to my laptop, so I’ll have to wait until I get home to upload it. I may have already talked about this, but [...]