McEs, A Hacker Life
Mariano
Good news this late in the GNOME release cycle is that: Mariano is back and ROCKING on gnome-terminal crashers!
Links and Notes
Older stuff that totally rock:
Evolution, #3
First, thanks again for all the comments on
previous entries. I filed a bunch of bugs this morning and updated those entries to list the bugs. The bugs typically contain more informative less ranty comments, as this blog is a space to reflect my frustration and bugzilla is not. The "Close Window" bug in particular is much more clear than the post.
Bugs filed:
(Yay for copy/pasting hyperlinks working so great in Firefox and Blogger.) (The bugs contributed 2.5% towards me getting to the next bugzilla level!)
Before going on, I like to mention that unlike some comments suggest, the Evo hackers
are very active and willing to fix bugs. I say so from experience on the few Evo bugs I've been CC'ed on. It's just that there's not many of them...
Rant of today comes from the last of bugs listed above:
With certain HTML mail, but not only spam, Evo stops updating the mail view and keeps viewing the same message no matter where you move away...
I have two options at that point: 1) double-click on each message to read them in a separate window, 2) restart Evo. The tip from
yesterday comes handy at this time.
I also see a milder version of the problem when on certain other HTML mail, it takes a few seconds before Evo updates to show any other message. I call it the "
pray period" as I'm typically praying that it gives up after a few secs and I don't have to restart the thing.
Evolution, #2
Thanks for everyone who commented on my
previous post. I'll be filing Evo bugs starting immediately. It just was that all the bugs seems o annoying that I blindly assumed they should have already been filed. Afterall I can ear a good part of a bugzilla point filing them. That doesn't mean that I stop this series of posts though!
This hit me again right now, so I let it out. Number 2 Evo annoyance for me coming from a Pine background. As I said already, I unset the "Hide Deleted Messages" option in the "View" menu, and expunge manually after going over my incoming mail and deleting those that don't need any further action.
But did I tell you that expunge is ctrl+E and close is ctrl+W? And I'm still using the qWErty keyboard layout, sigh...
And the thing takes its time to quit.Evo Tip of the Day: killall
+
bash-completion is an Evo user's best friend.
Update: Bug filed. From the bug report:
I use Evo to read mail. I don't use "Hide deleted messages" and expunge manually using ctrl+E. And ctrl+E is next to ctrl+W that is a shortcut for
"Close Window".
Moreover, other than the "Close Window" option, there's also a Quit option in the same File menu, and that's got a ctrl+Q shortcut. I really cannot understand the different between Close Window and Quit. Actually I thought I do. I opened a composer window and chose Close Window in the main window, expecting that maybe my composer is not closed... but it was, and Evo quit.
So, for the reason stated in first paragraph I suggest removing the Close Window menu entry and its shortcut from the main Evo window. As I mentioned in second paragraph, that option has not been any useful functionality anyway, so removing shouldn't cause any harm.
The composer and individual message views should still have "Close ctrl+W" like they do currently.
Evolution, #1
Ok, I really have to start this series. I'm not calling it "Evo Sucks" just yet because some of the issues (like the one in this post) are really funny and make for a good laugh. Here it goes:
I use the threaded view because that's how I like to read my mail. I also have selected to see deleted messages (with an overstrike) until I expunge them manually, for two reasons: 1) I'm used to this way, 2) without this option, threaded view is absolutely useless as deleting the message up in the thread makes the thread jump to a new location, depending on the date of the next message. Ouch!
But here is the funny part: the Evo toolbar has got three interesting buttons: Delete, Junk, Not Junk. Now think about it for a minute...
Observations:
- In my Inbox folder, when on a not-deleted message, the "Delete" and "Junk" buttons are active, "Not Junk" is inactive.
- In my Inbox folder, when on a deleted message, still the "Delete" and "Junk" button are active and "Not Junk" is inactive. If I press "Delete" again, it, well, deletes the already deleted message. I take advantage of that and delete messages that I really don't like up to seven times, but that's a really rare occasion and I can live without having the button for it. If I want to undelete the email on the other hand, which I need every other day, I have to rightclick on the message and choose "Undelete". The "Delete" option is there in the context menu too. None of them are in the "Message" menu though.
- If in my Inbox folder, I click "Junk" on a message, it disappears. If I want to "Not Junk" it, I have to change to the Junk folder first.
- While in the "Junk" folder, I see the "Junk" button inactive and the "Not Junk" one active. If I "Not Junk" a message here, it disappears again. Not sure where it goes...
If you are wondering why the "Junk" and "Not Junk" buttons are not merged into a single button, and why the "Delete" button doesn't turn into "Undelete" if a deleted message is selected, you see how funny Evolution can at times be.
Update: Filed
this,
this, and
this.
Ill-minded Blogger
Apparently
Blogger has decided to remove all links and images from my feed, even if I've chosen for full blog entry in the feed...
First it was with pre tags, now with everything. Time to reconsider moving blog.
Vertical Pango Updates
Mathrick, my Summer of Code student, and I spent last night implementing support for multiple directions in a single layout. I left for sleep but he finished it, which in fact finishes his SoC project too.
Read on his blog.
Update: If you don't see images and links, it's ill-minded Blogger removing them. Just follow the link to my blog entry and see them there. :-(
Update 2: Previous entry about vertical Pango.
Vertical Pango
To w
het your appetite for now:
All the code is in Pango HEAD and cairo master. All the details have got to wait until tomorrow. Took 36 hours of work. Better really sleep.
Object oriented approach Revisited
So,
seems like you do see
such things more frequently these days, just that they are blogged instead of filed as bugs!
(anyone knows why blogger.com front page brings my X server down to its knees? All I did before noticing this was enabling accessibility framework at GNOME level. Why does that have anything to do with the X server?)
Cairo 1.2.2 and Pango 1.14.0 released
After spending almost the entire week working with
Carl Worth during
GUADEC to get
cairo 1.2.0 out, a bunch of very nasty bugs were discovered. So, after a few weeks of work, we actually spent most of the past 48 hours getting the bugfix release out. Everyone, make sure you upgrade to
cairo 1.2.2. Over 150 commits in 6 weeks for a bugfix release is only possible with
Git. Go Get It.
In other news, a boring
Pango 1.14.0 was released too. Compared to 1.12, most notable change is update to Unicode 5.0 character database. There were quite a bunch of almost-ready patches in bugzilla adding new API, but a (-n almost) sudden request from the release-team to release Pango 1.14.0 well before the GNOME release forced me into closing this cycle without much new API. 1.15 should branch pretty soon and get a lot of new API, committed more casually as time will catch all the errors :-).
I intentionally make Pango 1.14.0 require Cairo 1.2.2 as 1.2.0 is really broken for various reasons, specially for printing and for vertical font stuff (
mathrick spent quite a few weeks trying to get his stuff work where it turned out to be a bug in cairo 1.2.0.) Now I can go back to hacking Firefox+Pango. More about that to follow.
iBot
As if
Segway was not enough, last week I observed an
iBot in Dundas square, passing the street, including passing over the streetcar rails, on its two wheels. Impressive technology.
Baiters Teach Scammers a Lesson
Fun read, specially
the "Baited by Shiver" tattoo exchange that I read over a bowl of pop-corn.
Object oriented approach
Gtk+
bug you don't see everyday.
RiRa is back
DNS problems are resolved now.
RiRa is back online.