Author Archives: Owen

git-bz: Bugzilla subcommand for Git

November 16, 2008 – 10:08 am

Update: For current documentation, see: http://git.fishsoup.net/man/git-bz.html Now that gnome-shell development is in full swing, I’ve been spending a lot of time creating patches with git and git-svn, and then pasting the git-format-patch results into Bugzilla. That seemed like a highly automatable task. git-send-bugzilla wasn’t really what I was looking for. Hence, git-bz: # File the […]

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Implementing the next GNOME shell

October 22, 2008 – 11:11 am

By now, I think most people have had a chance to look at the text and mockups that Vincent posted of the new desktop shell ideas that came out of the user experience hackfest. Obviously some parts of the ideas are controversial, some parts will be improved as we get some experience with them in […]

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Istanbul Wed/Thu

June 29, 2008 – 6:28 pm

I’m getting into Istanbul on Wednesday afternoon; going to spend Thursday there before driving over to visit Troy with JRB. (I need to do my touristing pre-GUADEC since I have other plans afterwards.) If anybody else is getting early and wants to meet up for dinner on Wednesday or sightseeing on Thurday, send me an […]

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Fast text: use a single cache pixmap

April 20, 2008 – 10:14 pm

A couple of weeks ago Dave Airlie pointed out to me that Alex Deucher had added RENDER extension acceleration for R3xx/R5xx to the Radeon EXA driver. Seeing an opportunity to have a desktop that was both composited and accelerated on my R300 laptop, I tried it out. The initial results: everything slowed to a crawl. […]

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A few new Reinteract features

December 9, 2007 – 12:29 am

I had some time today to finish some Reinteract features I’ve been working on over the last few weeks, namely completion and mouse-over tooltips on the editor contents. Some screenshots: Completion Tooltip showing documentation Tooltip showing variable contents The majority of features in my completion design notes are now implemented. (The design took the bold […]

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