Older blog entries for hadess (starting at number 358)

Watched The Cooler, and the National Lampoon's European Vacation.

My nemesis is still alive. But Totem made it into Mandrake 10's feature list. Development is going pretty smoothly, apart from a few naughty bugs that I will need time to pin down. More error handling work in xine-lib. Next stop is to collapse the error messages to only get one message if a error event occurs on open(), and a rework of the CD information retrieval (no more hangs when loading up an audio CD for the first time).

Family Guy is piss-funny. Season 1 was on sale, and it's definitely a good buy.

Watched some more films this very calm and relaxing Easter week-end: Lantana, Cast Away, Master and Commander, and The Mummy.

After an afternoon of gross hacks, and recompilations, I'm getting closed to fixing another of my Xlib bug nemesis. The main problem now is, how on earth do I enable thread debugging in Xlib without recompiling the whole stack above it. And most of all, how to fix the bug. Urgh, I hate this code.

Did some KDE hacking (eek!) to try and solve a crash on startup with the arts plugin in Totem. It seems that arts' init process isn't very robust. Not impressed.

Committed my super-duper xine-lib patch, and the Totem bits as well. CVS Totem now requires xine-lib CVS.

While we're on the subject, I'd like feedback on USound, a new sound server that seems to focus on what GNOME wants. Only the network transparency bit is missing. Probably not the hardest bit to write.

Without much time, I managed to kill some long-standing bugs/wishlists in Totem: better error messages when the audio device is busy, decent error message when libdvdcss isn't installed and the DVD is encrypted (trust me, that was a silly one), 2 possible crashers, and some memory leaks/valgrind whorage. I just need to commit my patch to xine-lib, and Totem will be en-route for a release soon after xine-lib's stuff is released.

Watched Princess Bride, after seeing it on the IMDB top250, and a thumbs-up from Telsa (a looong time ago).

That, and ManU knocked Arsenal out. Whoohoo!

I'd like to thank Luis Ximian for making me discover Jennifer Government.

/Bastien GNOME-Red Hat

PS: I do volunteer work part-time ;)

Watched Princess Mononoke, Y tu mama tambien, Dirty Harry and Starsky and Hutch. What's worse is that the latter was the best film on show at the cinema I hadn't seen yet. Scary. Quite fortunate there's the video.

Looked at cars this week-end, maybe that's what I was missing to become a responsible adult, or something. Managed to fix one little tinsy-weensy buglet in the Totem ASX playlist parsing yesterday, and that's about it.

Pissed off at the xine developers that bring nice broken changes into the play. Pissed off at GTK+ that really doesn't want me to have a black paint on my GdkWindow. Maybe both of those are just problems I'm creating for myself, but they still piss me off.

Watched the Virgin Suicides and Gunpowder, Treason and Plot.

Finished off my patch for stock-icons/named-icons support in Totem. Will post a screenie tonight.

Update: screenie as promised.

Spent the whole day hung-over. Urgh. I should have gone to bed after my late night hacking, instead of keeping on drinking while talking books and films with my housemate. It huuurts.

Watched Wasabi. Somebody buy those guys a plot.

Hacked on Totem quite a bit, split out the screenshot dialog into its own widget for Vanity to use, added the handlers for pnm, mms and rtsp for GNOME, and killed the annoying ALSA hang on exit. That one was annoying...

Work was very busy (it's like that pretty much every day, these days), and I got to hack a bit on the cutting edge procps, trying to make slabtop work on the highly hacked 2.4.9 kernel that ships on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.

Dinner at my place, certainly a lot cleaner now that we've got a cleaner (it's cheap, and the woman is certainly more effective than myself, or my housemate). I feel a bit of a posh boy about it ;)

Managed to get Evolution running on my iBook's MacOS X, started up Totem from a remote machine, and got a hang. Sure enough, the X11 shipped with MacOS X was hanging on querying for the Xv extension. Fair enough, I've already got code to detect remote use of Totem, and now the bug is fixed, and Totem nicely shows up on my MacOS X desktop.

I also had some spare time to update the Conectiva-Crystal theme, which is more these days of a "make GNOME have the same icons as the stock KDE" kind of thing. The tarball is up at usual page.