Author: Georges Stavracas

  • Introducing GNOME To Do

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    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…

  • GSoc: Report #2

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    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…

  • A picture is worth a thousand words…

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    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…

  • Summer of Code – Prologue

    Summer of Code – Prologue

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    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…

  • What to expect for GNOME 3.18

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    Legend says that the best GNOME release is always the next one. Here’s a quick selection of features I’ll work on for GNOME 3.18. Hope you all enjoy! Calendar Calendar was my gatweay to GNOME, thus it’s my cherished project. Some good news: the always-awsome Erick Pérez Castellanos kindly shared the maintance duties of GNOME…

  • GNOME Calendar Wishlist #1: Calendar Management

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    Last month, I wrote about the most wanted Calendar features. And here I come to show you the first & top wanted feature: Calendar management. Prologue Before getting our hands into works, we needed mockups. Good ones, since we’re dealing with the most expected feature. And here he came to save the day again, the…