McEs, A Hacker Life: GNOME Work This Cycle, Done

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

GNOME Work This Cycle, Done

So to avoid missing the deadline again, I actually rolled out and released vte-0.11.20 and gucharmap-1.5.3 on Saturday, and pango-1.10.4 and pango-1.11.99 on Sunday, and Phil released dasher-3.99.5. Get all from http://download.gnome.org/sources

Pango-1.10.4 is probably the last Pango release in the 1.10 branch. Vte, Gucharmap, and Dasher are just waiting for more translations before turning into final releases for GNOME 2.14, and Pango-1.11.99 is named so "Just In Case." So I'm done with GNOME work for this cycle. Can cross my fingers until the next tarballs-due before rolling some more.

I made a supposedly better, cool, Tango-based icon for Dasher. Looks like this:

. It's got a semi-transparent background. My first version had a transparent background, like this:

. The old dasher icon was this:

. Comments welcome.

That said, gucharmap can use a better icon. Filed here.

I plan to do a separate post on all the cool stuff that went into Pango this cycle. Got to reply to the Werror posts too. Both are will be really long posts I'm afraid...

¶ 12:38 AM

Comments:

Well, I loaded Planet Gnome, and my first reaction on seing the icons, before reading your post, was "cool, a new Tetris!" :)

But of course, illustrating something like Dasher for people that do not use it isn't exactly easy.

Oh, and a big, big thanks on the work on Pango! As a CJK user, there is no such thing as too much work on this part of the desktop ^_^

# posted by

Anonymous : February 28, 2006 6:04 AM

What do you mean "supposedly" better? It is sw33t!

# posted by

Anonymous : February 28, 2006 6:42 AM

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