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Thursday 25 May 2006

Planet Ubuntu comments

You have to wonder why I prefer to post comments on my blog instead of using the nice forms on people's blogs... When reading my feeds this morning, I found three great posts, all from Planet Ubuntu.

There's Jonathan, who's reporting about some Linux deployment in prisons. I'm really amazed, but it's not because it's Linux. It's because what's happening there is an effort to help people. There's a real issue (rehabilitation) and they're coming with a good solution. It really looks like what you guys at doing at the Shuttleworth Foundation is most useful. Keep rocking, guys!

Then I read about Jorge, who used pessulus and seems to like it (even if it could be improved). I guess I'm always emotive when people start talking about it ;-) I'd be quite interested to know the gconf keys you had to manually tweak, though: this is really something that you shouldn't have to do.

Last but not least, Ante reports about a fantastic translation effort. This is really impressive. I hope you submitted all your translations upstream so that, for example, the GNOME ones can be included in GNOME 2.14.2 (which is due next week)!

[12:46] | [Ubuntu] | [#383] | [2 comments] | [one trackback]

Sunday 2 April 2006

Pessulus news

It's cool to see Ars Technica relaying my call for pessulus co-maintainers. I got some replies and I hope to see some rocking patches during the 2.15 development cycle.

Michael worked a bit on pessulus and sabayon to offer some OOo lockdown. Great to see this! I still need to answer his mail, though. I guess we'll probably want to add more and more settings to lock down for various applications, and having all this hard-coded in pessulus will make it hard to maintain in the future. So one big feature I'd like to see in pessulus for 2.16 is making it extendable, so you can just drop a small file in a directory and it will automagically enable you to lockdown some features. Guess what? Rob Bradford is working on this. Isn't it fantastic to have contributors?

If you want to join the fun, take a look at the pessulus plans for 2.16 and profit! Err, have fun, I mean.

[16:40] | [GNOME] | [#370] | [3 comments]

Thursday 9 March 2006

Do you want to be a cool GNOME contributor?

There are some big names in the GNOME community: those are the names we can find in a lot of quotes in Jeff's email signatures. And you would believe it's hard to get quoted in such a mail. But no, it's not. Everybody can join the GNOME Team and make a difference.

Today, I'm looking for one or two people (maybe more?) who want to make a difference by writing some code. If you dream in C, then you're a good candidate (writing C instead of dreaming in C would qualify too). But if you hate C, come too, my friend, because python is also a great and easy-to-learn language.

Today, I'm looking for co-maintainers for gnome-panel (written in C) and for pessulus (written in python). However, there is an important restriction, an unusual restriction: I'd like the people wanting to co-maintain those modules to not be maintainer of another module. I've been told that fresh new blood tastes better ;-)

The path to co-maintainership is not as long as you would imagine. You can do it. You only have to start contributing and to keep contributing for some time. If you're interested in this, feel free to contact me or to take a look at gnome-panel and pessulus bugs. Pessulus is really easy to start with, and there are also some (many?) not-so-hard gnome-panel tasks.

But don't forget: you can make a difference without writing any code too!

[21:58] | [GNOME] | [#364] | [6 comments]

Monday 14 November 2005

Positive feedback

Maybe I'm too used to people saying "it's crap", or to receiving tons of bugzilla mail for the panel, but the feedback I have received for pessulus has been completely positive. It seems a lot of people are glad to see this kind of tool for GNOME. This makes me feel really good. Thanks to everyone who sent a nice message!

People made some good suggestions, translators have already started their fantastic job and Dennis Cranston submitted two HIG patches (two, because I broke the HIG after he committed the first one ;-)). Also, after some discussion with Alex, pessulus contains some glue so that Sabayon can use it (and it already does). Rock!

Oh, by the way, pessulus 0.2 is out. Check it out! There's still room for improvement, so contributions are of course welcome ;-) Feel free to send a mail if you want to help.

[20:35] | [GNOME] | [#340] | [2 comments]

Tuesday 13 September 2005

Announcing pessulus

pessulus is a lockdown editor for GNOME, written in python. I've released version 0.1 today.

I'm pretty sure that pessulus is not HIG compliant, but guess what: it's the goal for the next release. The UI probably need a big overhaul to be more logical. I'd be glad if some people could take a look at it (or only at the glade file). And a patch would be fantastic ;-)

Also, if you know of some settings that should be in a lockdown editor and that are not in pessulus, let me know.

Contributions are of course welcome: patches, translations, documentation, etc. As it's written in python, it's really easy to start coding on it, fixing bugs and adding features. The code is in CVS (module: pessulus).

This is my first pygtk application. I wanted to create one since months but I didn't want to create something useless and I lacked some free time. But thanks to Murray's idea and some bad weather this week-end, I could take a look at pygtk. Some functions I needed were not wrapped, so there are some workarounds in the code, but that was not a big problem. I absolutely love pygtk.

[16:42] | [GNOME] | [#316] | [8 comments]

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