Planet SUSEPlanet SUSE - http://planetsuse.orgMiguel de Icaza: Gtk+ 3.0- July 14, 2008 The Gtk+ 3.0 proposal being discussed currently sounds like a disaster for GNOME. The reasoning was first articulated in the histrionic Imendio Gtk+ 3.0 Vision presentation done at the Gtk+ Hackfest in Berlin. This is a meeting where application developers were underrepresented, and somehow we have accepted those proposals as the community consensus. The proposal goes like this: Gtk+ 3.0 will hide all public fields in objects, provide accessors to these, remove APIs that have been.http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Jul-14.html Christopher Hobbs: TTS Suggestions- July 14, 2008 I&8217;m looking for a decent TTS setup and I&8217;ve pretty much narrowed my search down to either Eventum or RT. Currently, we have a telephone line and email address set up for users to call in with issues. We&8217;ve had helpdesk &8217;solutions&8217; in the past, but we&8217;ve had to phase them out in the middle of some software changes. We need to implement something to track user issues as well as servernetwork issues. What we don&8217;t need is a bug tracker like bugzilla, mantis,...http://altbit.org/wp/?p=176 Holger Macht: GNOME Docker 0.1 Released- July 14, 2008 Finally I managed to release gnome-docker 0.1, a small application to support users using a docking station. It is already included in openSUSE 11.0, but other pending things prevented me to do a public release earlier. One of these things is the self designed tray icon :-). I definitely have to look for a better alternative. The README should have all the necessary information: GNOME docker 0.1 GNOME application for notifying laptop users about the state of their dock station and the...http://blog.homac.de/?p=64 Sandy Armstrong: GHOP Awards Ceremony- July 14, 2008 I just finished a great weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area, thanks largely to Google and their Highly-Open Participation Contest (GHOP). As you may already know, Google worked with several open source projects to run a contest for high school-aged students to complete tasks ranging from translation and documentation to coding and other bug fixes. Vincent Untz, Andre Klapper, and Behdad Esfahbod, Lucas Rocha, and Christian Kellner ran things from the GNOME end, and did a great job. ...http://automorphic.blogspot.com/2008/07/ghop-awards-ceremony.html Chenthill P: Back from GUADEC- July 14, 2008 This was the first time I attended GUADEC and it was an awesome experience. Meeting the great hackers like miguel, meeks, federico, jpr, hpj and many more GNOME people was just great. I had heard a lot about miguel from harish, nagappan and varadhan before and I atlast had a chance to see him. After speaking with him, am all poised to complete the c EDS bindings to the backends. I started the work on this with the help of nirav who gave me 4 ITO days. Now I will be working in the evenings and...http://chenthill.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/back-from-guadec/ Joe Brockmeier: openSUSE at LugRadio Live UK- July 14, 2008 LugRadio Live UK is coming up next weekend, and the openSUSE project will be in attendance. Roger Whittaker and Andrew Wafaa are going to be representing the green at LRL, and (assuming the shipping gods are kind to us) handing out openSUSE 11.0 DVDs to all and sundry. If you&8217;d like to assist at the booth, get in touch with Roger. A big thanks to both Roger and Andrew for taking the initiative at LRL!http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/07/14/opensuse-at-lugradio-live-uk/ Martin Vidner: cnetworkmanager 0.7.1- July 14, 2008 Cnetworkmanager is a command-line client for NetworkManager, intended to supplement and replace the GUI applets. So far it is a single python script. What is new in version 0.7.1:it does not need a configuration file anymore:cnetworkmanager -C publicnetcnetworkmanager -C myessid --wep-hex 112234445566778899aabbccddcnetworkmanager -C another --wpa-psk-hex 112233445566778899aabbccddeeff00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff00it works with NM 0.6 (tested on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy and a pre-release OLPC) in...http://mvidner.blogspot.com/2008/07/cnetworkmanager-071.html Jigish Gohil: Easy-LTSP GSOC project- July 14, 2008 Just finished mid-term evaluation of the Easy-LTSP, openSUSE&8217;s Google Summer of Code project. The project is doing quite well, although Jan does not engage the community by posting on ML, discussing with users and developers on the IRC frequently as much as I would have liked, he has done a remarkable job in such a short time. Everything is fully automated and no manual configuration is required in most cases in LTSP5 environment, but when you need to change something, the easy way to do...http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2008/07/14/easy-ltsp-gsoc-project/ Andrew Wafaa: LRLUK08 - Freeing The Lizard- July 14, 2008 Yes peeps, this weekend is the penultimate LUG Radio show and event. It is also an event where I will be speaking about the openSUSE project and its great community (yes there&8217;ll be a bit about Novell and how good they are too ) You can see the full schedule if you want to know what&8217;s going on or just turn up on Sunday at 1500 to hear and see yours beautifully I am planning on being helping Lord Whittaker who will be there with a Novell stand, so hopefully I can bring a dash of...http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/07/14/lrluk08-freeing-the-lizard/ Pavel Machek: 82kg- July 14, 2008 ...that's me with all the stuff neccessary for 3 week trip into Altai mountains. 0.5kg of that are NiMH batteries.... So don't try to contact me in next 3 weeks, I'll be very unavailable.http://pavelmachek.livejournal.com/60664.html |