Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Yesterday, I met Hans Ulrich Niedermann from gphoto and we discussed a bit about new feature and architecture. I brought in my idea and he raised some question for which we found a solution or have some thought. I'll talk more about that, as I have everthing noted down in my notebook (dead tree version).

This morning was Ubuntu funder Mark Shuttleworth's keynote. He talked about Ubuntu, and distributed developement including Rosetta, Malone, etc. That would be nice to see more collaboration, and I'm thinking about malone, the meta bug reporter, to handle distribution bugs vs upstream. And he seems really interested in that collaborative editing we have been thinking about for AbiWord. Actually re-reading the mail, I suspect he may have originated the idea with jdub as a messenger.

Currently listening to Miguel Keynote.

Yesterday was the pre-opening Nokia party, Nokia demoing the Nokia 770 tablet PC and giving away 30 of these with a lottery. This device is sweet. It currently just does not have PIM programs. Oh well. It is Open Source and still prototype.

This morning, I went to Keith Packard Freedesktop talk and to Owen Taylor Cairo talk.

And my wireless still no longer works. With kernel 2.6.8.1, hotplug crashes and fail. With 2.6.11 and 2.6.12, everything just freeze 'til I eject the card.

Nokia released the Nokia 770, a tablet PC based on Linux, GNOME and GStreamer. The software platform is called Maemo and is Open Source Software (but with a few exceptions).

I am wondering the opportunity of "porting" AbiWord to it.

BTW, it is not a phone.

Update: this has already been done with the Maemo Word Processor

Murray I completely agree with the RFE, but I'd like to see a browser view also, the view with hierarchical column inherited from NeXT. It is great for power users.

I'll post a screenshot later for people who don't see what I mean.

And shall I tell how much I hate the "ubuntu no spatial" hack ?

Kudos to uwog for integrating libpresent in Evince, even if it is experimental. One more step towards native GNOME apps.

Now we need an editor for that kind of applications.

Registered for GUADEC. No need to go thru PayScam^wPal, you can pay on site. Will pay cash or whatever that does not go thru a service that discriminate people based on the country they live in. Thanks to have addressed that concern.

'nuf said.

Still need to sort out a lift from Paris to Stuttgart as the one that was planned got cancelled... Maybe I'll just take the train.

I wanted to update and post new galleries, but F-Spot 0.0.12 is crashing. I upgraded Mono yesterday with my distribution, with a hope to get a more recent F-Spot. But I end up with no F-Spot at all... I get an obscure:

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
in <0x00000> <unknown method>
in (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Object:__icall_wrapper_mono_struct_delete_old (intptr,intptr)
in (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.StockManager:gtk_stock_lookup (string,Gtk.StockItem&)
in <0x00017> Gtk.StockManager:Lookup (System.String stock_id, Gtk.StockItem item)
in <0x0004b> GtkUtil:MakeToolbarButton (Gtk.Toolbar toolbar, System.String stock_id, System.EventHandler e)
in <0x00185> MainWindow:.ctor (.Db db)
in <0x0013d> Driver:Main (System.String args)

Filed bug 302853