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Network management workflow (or, GSoC report #4)
Things are moving absolutely faster than I could expect. Since the last report, I was able to improve the new Other Locations view so much! I could spend a few boring paragraphs trying to explain how things work now… but no. I love videos. People love videos. Technology enabled us to make videos, so let’s…
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GSoC: report #3
During the last couple of week, the following points were achieved: The list of recently connected servers is now correctly saved. Initial work on keyboard support. Some real research on how Nautilus will handle the new mocups. Fortunately, my graduation is now totally finished. I was also accepted in the Mastering Course in Information Systems…
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Introducing GNOME To Do
Ever since GNOME 3 release, I was looking for good personal task managers. Specially now that I’m working on a big project a.k.a. Summer of Code, I feel a real need to stay organized. For me, a good task manager for GNOME desktop should have/be: GNOME HIG compilant interface; Complete integration with GNOME environment; Simple and…
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GSoc: Report #2
During these 10 days, I couldn’t manage to work full time on my GSoC project, thus not so many visible advances. Here’s what happened: Cleaned up a huge ammount of annoying compile warnings from Nautilus (see wip/gbsneto/code-cleanup branch). Nautilus still uses some deprecated API from GIO – mainly GIOScheduler family. I’ll have to figure out…
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A picture is worth a thousand words…
And a video is worth a thousand pictures. For those who are not aware, this is the project I’m working as part of my Google Summer of Code. The purpose of this new widget is to manage fixed volumes (like your partitions) and networks. When the set of patches for Gtk+ is complete, I’ll focus…
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Summer of Code – Prologue
This is the first report about my Google Summer of Code project. Since I’m already a GNOME member, many administrative steps weren’t needed. So, what happened during the community bonding period? The mockups got mature enought for me to start implementing them, thanks to the amazing work of Allan Day. It was discussed how things…