I have been very lacking in blogging lately, so here comes a quick summary: GMPC The big change from GOB written GmpcMpdDataTreeview to a new, vala widget is finally done. Beside being more maintainable, it also reduces a lot of duplicate code. So in the end, the amount of code went down. Keybindings are made read more »

I recently got an avrdragon for a small project. They thought it was a good idea to put the pin-layout of the headers, on the bottom. This is not very useful, esp. when you put it in a case. So I made this image with the file layout. Maybe somebody else find it useful:

In the past 1 1/2 week I have been testing Notes.txt a lot and made a lot of small improvements.   A small list: Print last edit date in list. Speed up showing of list by factor 3. Possible support for multiple markup backends. Allow exporting to a configurable format. (e.g. with asciidoc you can read more »

notes.txt is a simple command-line note managing application. Warning This is preview release of the program. I only released it to collect ideas on how it can be improved. Your data should be relatively save as everything is stored inside a git repository. LICENSE Copyright © 2013, Qball Cow and contributors All rights reserved. Redistribution read more »

I wrote a tiny i3 patch that adds a small separator line between the i3bar and the workspace. The result is very subtle! Screenshot: Code: The code can be found here:  here Or the patch: here

You have no idea how strongly I hate saying this, but raspberry pi is currently better then my pandaboards. The raspberry pi is very slow compared to the pandaboard, but a lot of things just work better. Mostly thanks to the huge hype around it and the fact that the community is huge and problems read more »

Beside the fact it was an amazingly busy day at work I managed to get the following things done (beside work):   Resurrected my own homepage:  http://sarine.nl It is hacked together with script, makefile and asciidoc, but it works reasonably well. Asciidoc is actually very nice for this, I can easily set some attributes on read more »

Hanging around in #gtk for a few days, it seems  theming is no longer supported in gtk. There is the default theme that “works”, and that is (sh)it. I wanted to use the CSS stuff to fix some widgets… not supported.  etc. etc. I guess it makes life interesting.

An image says more then 1000 words (or something like that): Alot still needs to be done. I have added a gmpc-gtk3 project on the bug-tracker to track port related issues.