On Ross’s blog he talks about “a project [that] is even more interesting for the geeks out there”. I’m pleased to disclose that said project is OProfileUI a graphical user interface for the OProfile system profiler. Hopefully this should help the amazing performance wizards do their thing. I also hope that this will lower the barrier to entry, profiling and performance improvements are often seen as a bit of a black art but it can be a good way for new contributors to explore the stack.
This was my first project at OpenedHand and so i’m really pleased to see it released and available for other people to try (and improve.)
Oh and it has a cool icon (thanks Andreas.)
Go on, grab it!.
(Rapidly followed by 0.4.1)
I’m very pleased to announce that Dates 0.4 has been released to the world, this release includes support for multiple local and remote calendars (including read-only access to Google Calendar.) It is available in three stunning flavours all guaranteed to be buzzing with energy but 100% fat free.
N800 owners can use the Application Manager to install dates by using this install link.
Packages for Debian/Ubuntu are being built now. Hopefully we should be able to get packages built for the Nokia 770 soon.
Dates also has a cool new icon, courtesy of Andreas Nilsson. Andreas has also designed icons for the other components of, as well as the website for, the Pimlico Project which launches today. Pimlico is the umbrella project for all the OpenedHand PIM applications; Dates, Contacts, Tasks and Sync.
The funky new Dates icon.
We will be making a release of Dates soon and so are on the look out for more translations. To submit a translation please file a bug on the OpenedHand Bugzilla against the Dates product. The latest code can be found in trunk.
I’ve been spending some time working on Dates recently. One of the new features currently available in trunk is support for creating a new calendar, including using a remote source for said calendar. The screenshot below shows two local calendars (green and blue) and two remote (orange and red): the GNOME 2.17/2.18 schedule and my own calendar from Google Calendar.
<bilboed> davyd, I so definitely want that translation app on the n800
Warum nicht?
No code yet since I need to discuss a few changes with Davyd first to see if we can keep it all in the same code tree. But if you are genuinely interested in this you should let me know.
Screenshot taken courtesy of Tuomas Kulve’s maemo-screen-grabber.
Whenever there is a light dusting of snow the UK’s transport system goes into total meltdown (pun intended). But in order to maintain British standards of fair play the same thing happens when it is too hot, too wet, too windy and autumn.
Now that I have my desk sorted in my new flat i’ve begun to use my wireless mouse again. I was pleasantly surprised to see that gnome-power-manager (through HAL) gave me battery statistics on my mouse. Cute. So in the next major release I expect it to warn me when *my* energy levels are running low and suggest I take in a caffeine fix.
GNOME power manager strikes again!
On Friday night I followed up on Matthew’s ITP and attended his and Daf’s party. This was the first time I had seen the OLPC prototypes and woah, they’re pretty small :-). Daf and I decided to make flapjack which went down really well.
On Sunday^WSaturday Daniel, Rob (Kendrick) and Lesley came over to Cambridge and we went to the Free Press for lunch with Rob (McQueen) and Daf and two of my friends from college. That was followed by more flapjack and very tasty coffee at the Collabora office.
At popular request (ONE!) the recipe for my flapjack is:
Melt 125g of butter with 150g of dark brown sugar and two tablespoons of oozy golden syrup over a low heat. Stir it. When melted add two teaspoons of ground ginger and remove from the heat. Add 200g of porridge oats (for a more crumbly less toffee flapjack use 250g). Stir in a handful raisins (or sultanas, or both). Dollop into a greased baking tin (use the wrapper from the butter) and bake for around 20 minutes at 180°C. Score whilst still warm to ensure that it can be broken.
I’ve been doing some maintaineresque bashing at Alacarte recently (with the maintainer’s permission.) This means the bug list is down to four. Two of which are enhancements and two of which are quite mischievous little critters: #364080, which has something to do with the completion stuff but I can’t reproduce and #372477, which seems to be a bug with gnome-menus or the Python bindings perhaps. Any help would be most welcome!
Update: Rogue space broke the links. Fixed now.
This is so true..
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.)
