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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Entertaining bug

With the magic of intltool and some –obviously wrong– Makefile.am I bring you this bug.

Why stop at at application internationalization? Why limit our users to simply one language? Why not just show them all the languages, to improve the his or her knowledge of foreign languages? (Obviously this screen shots only shows that there are [...]

Drapes feedback

So now that drapes has been out for like a couple days a couple things have happened. Number one, I got lots of support requests, people find various ways of breaking drapes that I never thought of… and I love it, keep sending me bug reports and I’ll keep fixing everything to make sure drapes [...]

Desktop Drapes, first public preview

So I finally got of my ass and decided to release something; after long deliberations I’ve decided that if I wait till it’s perfect… well it’ll never be out. So I present to the world Desktop Drapes 0.4.96 nicknamed “Still no Icon”.
While this version still has some kinks left in it (I’m sure), it should [...]

*Magic*

On a short note, drapes (from the current bzr tree) support file system watching magic. Plus it has a bunch of bug fixes.
So, go on now and rejoice.

Java script

* Syntax is cross between C and Python.
* It has the library features of assembly.
* And it’s user friendliness only equals that of raw turing machine.
* User created classes… wait does anyone acctualy use that in JS?
That’s all folk.

Dokument

While taking a trip to ikea Jorge and I found this. Needless to say we got a laught out of it. In fact I think we are still writing. Koincidence, I think NOT!

Long time no see… erm, speak

Hai!
I haven’t blogged about drapes in a long time. Well there is progress being made, mostly on the two remaining biggies Applet and file system monitoring. The applet stuff is almost done, there are a couple odds and ends and most of them are due to bugs in Gtk#. I’m working around them and hopefully [...]