Author: Georges Stavracas

  • Cleaning the house (GSoC #6) & GUADEC

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    Some thoughts on Nautilus During the last weeks, the code on Gtk+ side is more or less settled, so I started working on Nautilus. The current situation is desperating. Nautilus code is old and, after almost 20 years of hundreds of contributors throwing their coins in, things are in a poor state. Many different formatting…

  • GNOME To Do 3.17.4

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    After introducing GNOME To Do, it finished a very important cycle of development and we had a great set of fresh features for 3.17.4 release. Check them out: Today & Scheduled tasks The most noticeable feature of this release are the “Today” and “Scheduled” task lists, visible from the main view. They are always updated…

  • Annoucing GNOME Calendar 3.17.4

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    During the last period, GNOME Calendar received many improvements and bugfixes. News Calendar’s Month view received a nice keyboard navigation feature. Many code optimizations, cleanups and fixes Improve Year view’s rendering Unfortunately, Calendar won’t receive Week view this cycle. It’ll be postponed to 3.20 cycle, which I’ll have much more time to work on Calendar.

  • Final touches to Other Locations view (GSoC report #5)

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    After fixing many issues with the Other Locations view (a.k.a. GtkPlacesView), it is mostly ready for merge. During the last week and a half, I was able to accomplish: Search support for Other Locations view Empty state (following the proposed guidelines for empty states) Better handling of recent servers Much improved feedback on asynchronous operations…

  • Network management workflow (or, GSoC report #4)

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    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…

  • GSoC: report #3

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    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…