Nekohayo !

It is fashionable these days, especially for the Slashdot crowd, bloggers, kernel hackers and other people depending on “feature X that has not fully polished”, to throw mud at the efforts that have been made towards redesigning the Fedora Linux installer.

How about we revive the Performance wiki page and make it a goal for GNOME 3.8 (or 3.10) to finally reach our 2005-2007 target of a “3 seconds login time”?

Comme plusieurs d’entre vous le savez déjà, Android est un écosystème au code source ouvert, mais pas tellement ouvert d’esprit ou de culture. Pour décrire succintement le phénomène, je qualifie typiquement Android de « read-only open-source » (du libre en « lecture seule »). Bien qu’une réussite incontestée dans l’industrie, cette plateforme n’a généralement presque rien en commun avec une distribution Linux conventionnelle (mais ça c’est une discussion pour un autre jour).

Time flies! It’s been only a few months since the first release, and yet my pals at Collabora and Fluendo have just announced the availability of another major release of the GStreamer Software Development Kit.

With some help from luisbg, I finally reworked and merged a 2-years-old patch of mine. It turned out to be less trivial than expected, because we had to change the settings backend to allow loading/reading configuration files at runtime for our dynamically-generated tab components. So, what the heck does this mean to you? Automatically saving and restoring the state of our dynamic detachable tabs/components. This is a nice improvement for those of you who want to spread the PiTiVi UI across multiple displays:

J’aimerais tout simplement saluer le travail de l’équipe de développement derrière GTG, mon logiciel favori (si si, logiciel favori, point final ! Il est essentiel à ma survie).

Pour vous donner le contexte, j’écrivais cette note personnelle dans Tomboy en 2006, suite à la lecture de Getting Things Done:

I’ve seen everybody hail Lightworks as the messiah that will make all other open source video editors irrelevant. So far, I didn’t blog about this (because frankly, life’s too short to be pessimistic, and I was also quite curious as to how it would play out and wanted to give EditShare the benefit of the doubt—after all, I’m a fan of video editing software in general).

Here’s a tricky usability question: how would you represent the actions of grouping and ungrouping clips on a timeline? (Un)grouping is used for changing the way selections affect a set of clips. It allows you, among other things, to separate and remove the audio from the video of a clip.

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for months. You may remember me being a fan of SFLphone. Well, turns out that for the past year, I’ve been using only Empathy to do my VoIP calls.

Here’s one of the reasons why I’m not exactly in a hurry to learn C. When you ask me to read through C code, this is what happens: