1 Aug 2001 cactus   » (Master)

Spent most of the last days making all the last-minute changes to various GNOME API's (mostly libbonobo) that should have been made a long time ago. Changes included a complete rework of everything using callbacks to support GClosures -- I decided to do this change three days before the freeze date...

Life/Open source (is there a difference?<grin/>)

  • After sitting in front of the computer all Sunday, I decided going somewhere was much needed, so I joined some friends on Monday and we went swimming. The plan is to enter the traditional Balaton Bay Swimming Contest (which is at August 12th), which is 3.6 kilometers (note to swimmers: please don't laugh:)), so we swam that distance (of course there is a big difference between a swimming pool and a natural lake, but let's hope the best:)
  • Speaking of lakes, after completing all the GClosure stuff for libbonobo (man, this thing needs documentation), I decided to freeze my own little sub-world of GNOME, and thus went to a nearby lake, with the temperature rising above 35 degrees Celsius. Did some swimming again. It's amazing how tiring it can be to lie all day by a large body of water.
  • While writing the above paragraph, Michael just told me about more unresolved issues in libbonobo and libbonobui, but those don't seem to involve API changes, so I just can't be bothered.
  • But it looks like I will be adding GClosure support to gnome-vfs in the next week. I seem to volunteer for the suckiest tasks. I guess the feeling of "someone has to do this so why not me" is too strong in me -- ah, the power of youth...

/lost+found

I was delighted to catch Szilva in the recently joined people list. It's good to finally see people here whom I know from elsewhere. Catch you on #linux.hu, dude!

Telsa, I think you should lighten up a little -- so what if the Retarded-poster was a bit sick, I didn't take it as an attack on the mentally challenged, and I had a good laugh at it. Maybe you had a smile as the first reaction as well, but decided to be embarrased about it instead.

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