Monthly Archives: May 2012

Northern Ireland

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An experiment of futility: 3h 20 minutes

Did not make that much progress today, but still something done: Energy Bar: needs some spiffy up. but basic work is there. Compile ui file into the binary. Download updates from the youless.

Little GEM

A lot of people do not know this one, but xxd is one of those tiny, incredible useful, utilities. So you want to include your ui file in the binary? make a header file from it.. xxd -i test.ui > test_ui.h. You need to convert some hex code back to binary file, xxd can do read more »

An experiment of futility: 2h 30 minutes

Following progress: Niced up graph. (background color, better gradient, glow, text rendering, etc.) Added animated change label widget. (see movie) Movie: epviewer

An experiment of futility: 1h 10 minutes

Send some time on the train working on my little project: Basic GUI, build and source structure is up. Copied Graph widget from other program. Added gradient, coloured line, etc to graph widget. Add dummy data provider. Todo: Create 2 new custom widgets. Create real data provider Create preferences panel Create info panel. etc. Nice read more »

An experiment of futility

because of work I had very little time for working on my opensource programs. Beside lack of time also motivation has been at an all time low. So i got the idea of doing small projects on things I usually don`t put emphasis on. The first project will be a gtk3 version of the youless read more »

Ubuntu 12.04

This is a ‘beg’ to the ubuntu people. Please fix this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openbox/+bug/938379 bug. How can something that will close X and drop you back to the login manager be ‘medium’  priority.. I KNOW ubuntu is about unity now, but I like to get work done.. Both GNOME (gnome-shell eats up 100% and stays unresponsive for read more »