Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Tuesday 7 June 2005

Cheers ! - Picture of the day, June 7, 2005

I had a tux t-shirt that day at the Montréal beer festival, and the girl behind the counter told me I should get some of this. So I did.

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Camera plug and play

Today, I implemented bug 306646: splitting the gnome-volume-properties applet into 2 applets to have one for digital cameras, because digital cameras are NOT removable storage, at least from a user point of view.

There is no bounty for it, but I filed the bug. It is step #1 towards making life better.

libgphoto2 2.1.6-rc2

I just released libgphoto2 2.1.6-rc2. This is the second release candidate, released 2 month after the first one (yes, I suck) but that integrate 2 month of camera driver fixes.

I hope to release 2.1.6 in a week.

I also thought about make GNOME digital camera support much more plug and play. My 2004 20D digital camera did work out of the box with the 2002 eMac at my mom, running MacOS X. More about that later. It involve hacking on both GNOME and gphoto2.

Summer of Code

There is not prize for AbiWord in Google summer of code. What a shame. There is plenty of things to take, and we'd love to have someone sponsoring that. Perhaps because the is no AbiWord Foundation.

Apple vs KHTML, last words

Apple did what I wouldn't believe: opening WebKit, not just the source. They is even a bug reporter based on Bugzilla, and they provide the source of the WebKit, the part that was not open sourced before.

Thank you Apple!

Source: David Hyatt