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Had a great day.
Art and Brian from Linuxcare came visit us: Art gave me a 340MB IBM microdrive for use in the Cassiopeia and Brian a PCMCIA-CF.
Meanwhile I got the cross-compiler running and downloaded the first program to the PDA (I was even able to write a buggy "hello world" kind of program, it printed "hello wolrd":-).

Started writing a couple of slides for the GUADEC talk and polished a bit the Gnome::Designer toolbox (I stole the images from Glade, Gnumeric, Dia: it's too boring to paint all that little icons).

Yesterday I got a Flash Card writer, so I was able to get a kernel and a loader on the Cassiopeia.
Right now I'm using it through he serial console: need to write a keyboard emulator real quick:-).

The work on my Gnome::Designer module is progressing.
This module provides a consistent and easy to use interface to create GnomeCanvas items that can be manipulated by a user in an interactive way (i.e.e using control points and property dialogs).
The items can be serialized (for example to an XML file) and later re-rendered to another canvas.
A Gnome::Designer object keeps track of some important info that the GnomeCanvas doesn't provide (z-order, otherwise write-only attributes, etc.).
I need to release a new version of Gtk-Perl soon as developing this module I discovered a few bugs and needed missing features.

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