I am finished with school for this summer session. I am pretty happy, since for once I got decent grades. Only a brief respite though until the 18 credit hour marathon I have coming up in september.........I can't wait to graduate.
GNOME
I've added a semi-cool feature to gedit that's similar (if not identical) to the "bookmark" feature in TextPad (I think kate also has it). I developed a healthy hatred for the GtkTextView API for drawing stuff in the borders in the process. I am not totally sure what I would do to improve it, but if you want to have any flexibility in the stuff you draw in the border, the current API is difficult to use. I need to find a way to make it better so plugins can put stuff in the border too. I had a mega-crack idea for a feature in gedit: vi key bindings. I'm not sure how far I would take it though (probably just the very basic editing features), and I'm not even sure I would use it. I actually don't use gedit that much at all, since it doesn't do syntax highlighting or auto-indent yet (but it will soon!!)
My gnome-recent stuff is coming along well lately too. I've updated the recent-file spec to use an XML document for storage, so I'll be submitting that to the freedesktop.org guys again soon. Hopefully some more people will comment on it this time. One of my key concerns right now is performance. If the list gets to be really large (like > 1000 items), it takes a while (almost 0.5 secs) to do inserts. Reading the list is almost as bad. I would like to use a separate thread for this part of it to avoid blocking the GUI, but I haven't yet found a way to use threads in GTK without totally horking things. I am obviously doing something wrong.