It’s been oppressively hot in my apartment. I open up the window to cool down but they have been doing work on the facade of the building so I inevitably wake up to find the storm windows have been placed down to avoid debris and dust coming into my apartment. I wouldn’t mind so much if they would replace the screen after they were done. I have no idea how to do it from the inside as the tops of my windows seem to be painted shut. So I sweat it out.
Got Through Half of my D-Bus Slides for LinuxTag/FUDCon II
It has been easier than I thought it would be though I had to wait until the sun went down a bit so I could think straight. I’ll finish up tomorrow or on the plane. Yep, it is back to Germany this Wednesday night. Only a 3 hour stopover in London so no romp this time around.
Plans are to get to Munich around noon on Thursday, locker my bags off at the main train station then walk two stops to hook up with the 4:00 Mike’s bike tour. I will then be meeting up with one of my best friends who works for the European Space Agency or one of their contractors. He was the drummer in my High School band and I have known him since grade school. For the weekend we might end up in Vienna or Prague; two places I didn’t get to go to when I was living in London, but always wanted to go to.
Monday after that it is go into work day at the Munich office and help out setting up the LinuxTag booth stuff. Then it is an early morning train to Karlsruhe on Tuesday. Hope to see some GNOME and Free Desktop people there.
Things I Need to Get Done Before I Leave
- Find my plane tickets – I swear I left them in the FedEx envelope on my desk before I left for GUADEC
- Make a new release of D-Bus – Havoc, can you take a look at my updated patches so I can merge them before I do the release?
- Clean and fill my Camel pack – I found out the hard way that Germany has a thing against necessary liquids and will gladly charge you more per ounce of water than they will for beer
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I ran into some info about Boston Street Battle inline skating comp this Saturday. It is happening at 3:00 in Jamaica Plains at the “Perfect Rails” location (William H. Mckinley Park). I’m going down to check it out. Yep, I’m gona be the wuss on the sidelines watching kids half my age kill those rails. Even if I can’t throw down anymore I still want to keep intouch with the local scene and perhaps get some awareness out about the Charles River Skate Park.
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I was a bit bored and getting sick of the hard edges on all my windows so I decided to take the new Planet Gnome look and mock up a theme with it. I liked the understated gradients and wanted to mock up a theme that showed how we might achive more of a flow between elements. I’m not saying I succeeded because I am no great artist but hopefully it will get some of our great artists thinking what the next generation themes could look like given the advanced rendering features currently being hacked on. And yes I fully admit this is all cracktastic.
The before shot of evince:
The mockup of evince:
Ignore the washed out white and the wasted space as those are just issues with my art skills. It is really just an idea but I would like to see cleaner themes where the window flows much better instead of windows that look like a collection of elements.
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Murray, you forgot to put “Showing others that GNOME rocks – Priceless” 
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Maureen Duffy and Hannah Wallach have started Gnome Women in the spirit of Debian Women. Right now it is just the irc channel #gnome-women on the gimp.net servers but the idea will be to expand it to a web site, mailing list and blog aggregator in the future.
If one hasn’t notice there is a disproportionate amount of men to women within the GNOME community (and in techology in general). The reasons for this can be debated but one of the causes could be that in such a male-dominated field it is hard for women to have a voice and feel like they can contribute. It is the hope that Gnome Women will be a catalyst for more involvement of women in GNOME. I know they are out there and I have talked to a few; now it is time for them to stand up and be counted. After all, how can we create a desktop for the masses if there is only representation for half of our audience?
With that said I encourage women who use, develop for or in some way contribute to GNOME to join irc and help out. Feel free to contact me for any info.
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Trying ot wack out the last of the TODO items. We are very close to getting that list clear. I need to write up a 1.0 TODO list for the Python bindings also. Shouldn’t be much there, just implementing introspection reads and rewriting the backend in C instead of Pyrex.
Anyone who is interested in getting DBus to 1.0 as fast as possible please look at this http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2005-June/002715.html and see what you can do to help. There are also TODO items for the GLib bindings in the docs/TODO file and I am sure some of the other bindings can use your help.
There are also a couple of showstoper bugs that need to be looked at with this one being the biggest show stopper in my opinion.
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So Chris made it sound like I didn’t know what I was doing in London. To be fair I haven’t been there in five years and getting lost in foreign cities is my MO. You want to tour going from A to B in a straight line, hire a tour company. You want to see a city in five hours packing in everything from the tourist hot spots to the local dives, follow me. I got lost around Maida Vale mainly because there are little to no landmarks to orient one’s self. Not being there for five years Wymering Road hit a nerve so I assumed it was the street I used to live on. After feeling like it changed quite a bit I then walked down a block and realized I had lived on Widley Road and that Wymering struck the nerve because I used to love the name and would always use it as a marker to tell me I was getting close to my flat.
All in all I got us back to Paddington train station right on time and was able to see more of the thing I had remembered from when I lived there just by wandering with no real goal. The only thing I did not get to see because we got to London so late was the Warrington Hotel. That was a bit disappointing because it was the bar I hung out in the most. Oh well, next time.
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