The reason for me being very calm on my blog is due to a busy schedule in the recent weeks. There was my personal financial disaster that was CeBIT, where I did a talk on the state of things regarding multimedia on GNOME. Sorry, no slides for this, because it was 80% demonstrating applications (or at least pretending to be using them). On the side of end-user-ready applications there is still a lot to do, in order to provide well-integrated native multimedia-applications for GNOME. Folks, PiTiVi needs you, seriously… give Edward Hervey a hand!
I’m very angry about one person in particular from that CeBIT-weekend. I’ve a bad impression on what is called GNOME Deutschland (GNOME Germany). Aside from that CeBIT was pretty good, but man could GNOME use more beef for representing itself at a fair of the size of CeBIT.
Next was a small brainstorming weekend in Hamburg with a few core gtk+-developers from Imendio. We stayed at rambokid’s place and did talking and tossing around ideas for the most part. My take from that weekend is this… if gtk+ gets the resources (developers, designers, funding) the sky’s the limit. I was invited to that meeting by Imendio after some of the Imendio-bunch saw my talk “bling it up - make it sexy” at FOSDEM 2007. The role I had at the meeting could be best described as “API-user stating wishes for gtk+’s future”. I also showed a few examples of stuff I’ve written, that offers things currently not possible within gtk+ itself today.
Upcoming is my internship at Fluendo in Barcelona starting this friday… rock&roll! During that three month period I’ll also be at the LGM2 and UDS Sevilla. I’m equally thrilled and intimidated by this intense road ahead.
On the software-development side of things I’m trying my best with getting stuff done that’s on my mind/TODO. Currently this means some base-work I need for lowfat and a few other things. One could call it a side-effect of those projects. Since I’m not in the mood for writing a whole essay on the topic, here’s a glimpse of that in unnarrated screencast-form…
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Sorry, for using those photos unasked. Not too long ago I was asked for some help with a new gnome-about. This is part of what I initially tried and used the photos for. If any of the GNOME-folks displayed in that screencasts does not want to be “exposed” like this, tell me and I’ll take the video offline. But I hope this will not be the case and you’ll enjoy what you see.
Original post by Mark Van den Borre
Just spent an hour trying to figure out why Ctrl-] in my gnome-terminal zooms the window instead of sending a telnet escape character. I was connected with a xen console and wanted to detach so I could reattach from home later.
I still don’t have it figured out, and I’m still not sure it’s gnome-terminal, GNOME itself, or something else.
xev correctly lists the key being pressed as rightbracket. Zoom mode is bound to Ctrl-+, which on my current US keyboard is shared with the = key. So, in gnome-terminal, Ctrl-] behaves the same as Ctrl-=
In Firefox, Ctrl-] does not zoom, and Ctrl-= does zoom.
Now, when I remap gnome-terminal’s Zoom out to Ctrl-= (and not Ctrl-+, which while on the same key is a different symbol), then Ctrl-] *does* work as expected. Confused yet ?
This can only be a special casing in gnome-terminal afaict. Anyone know for sure before I start digging through gnome-terminal code again ?
As an aside, I can apparently use Ctrl-5 instead… This is according to the Xen wiki and that seems to work for me.
I will save my complaints about Xen for some other day
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