The monkey with the keyboard!
Today on the other hand I wrote a few patches for alacarte and deskbar.
It seems that quite a few modules are missing the magic values in their .desktop files which Bug Buddy needs to send bugs to the right place. See #348827 for details. Perhaps this should be the next GNOME goal?
(Doh. I alway forget to publish my blog entries with Wordpress. So this was supposed to appear yesterday.)
Somebody on desktop-devel-list asked for a “gconf-diff” which should tell them the settings they have in gconf that are different to the defaults.
So I wrote it, you can get it in the list archives or by following this link: gconf-diff.py.
As well as giving the keys that are different it also gives keys without a matching schema. I think this should also be helpful with troubleshooting upgrades and the like.
I have just submitted by first research paper to a leading networks conference. I wish I could have been in Boston but alas there was no time to spare with this deadline.
Now i’m going to get some sleep.
Today I started reading High Fidelity and am having trouble putting it down. So far I have read three other of Hornby’s novels: About a Boy, How to Be Good and A Long Way Down (in that order). And to be honest after the insightful intrigue of the former I found the other two lacking in anything of any interest. A Long Way Down was massively predictable and a tad morbidly bland and How to Be Good failed to say anything interesting, at all. Ever.
A couple of weekends ago I was visited by some close friends from Cambridge, Steve and Noirin, and we did the usual Berlin things. Sunday Frühstück, shopping, eating ice cream and a helluvalot of walking. We did however see Thankyou For Smoking at the Original Version cinema at the Sony Center. It was witty and clever and all the things a good film should be. Noirin commented afterwards that in the whole film that you don’t see anybody smoking in the whole thing. I’m looking forward to Starter for Ten. I doubt anyone outside the UK will really grok a film about a cult television series (if Countdown is cult, University Challenge must be up there with the Today Programme.)
(Pardon the cheesy pun on the name of a chain of book shops long since subsumed into the now ubiquitous Borders.)