Tag: gnome

  • Annoucing GNOME Calendar 3.17.4

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    Georges Stavracas
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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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    Georges Stavracas
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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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    Georges Stavracas
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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…

  • Introducing GNOME To Do

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    Georges Stavracas
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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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    Georges Stavracas
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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…

  • What to expect for GNOME 3.18

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    Georges Stavracas
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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…