Wednesday October 11, 2006 Weblog
Wednesday October 11, 2006 Boston GNOME Summit The leaves are changing color in New England following the Boston GNOME Summit [Read More] ( Oct 11 2006, 10:38:40 AM CDT ) Permalink
Wednesday September 20, 2006 Solaris and the desktop market Is JDS an alternative to other popular desktops? [Read More] ( Sep 20 2006, 08:16:49 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [3]
Monday September 18, 2006 GNOME 2.16 GNOME 2.16 coming soon to a Solaris machine near you [Read More] ( Sep 18 2006, 02:33:30 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
Friday June 30, 2006 Hi To Everyone Wrapping Up At GUADEC! What I Have Been Doing Lately [Read More] ( Jun 30 2006, 08:50:39 PM CDT ) Permalink
Friday May 12, 2006 Another beautiful day GNOME Interface Stability [Read More] ( May 12 2006, 02:10:37 PM CDT ) Permalink
Tuesday March 14, 2006 Solaris ARC and GDM 2.14 ARC is ongoing... [Read More] ( Mar 14 2006, 12:41:47 AM CST ) Permalink Comments [1]
Tuesday January 24, 2006 ARC and GStreamer 0.10 integrated into OpenSolaris at long last... [Read More] ( Jan 24 2006, 07:43:43 PM CST ) Permalink Comments [1]
Monday December 26, 2005 GDM Configuration Overhaul looks good [Read More] ( Dec 26 2005, 08:53:06 PM CST ) Permalink Comments [2]
Wednesday December 07, 2005 GDM Performance Improvements ...at the Sun GNOME Performance Summit [Read More] ( Dec 07 2005, 11:03:01 AM CST ) Permalink Comments [3]
Thursday December 01, 2005 Sun Desktop Summit! Woo-hoo! It's great to finally have some face-to-face time with everyone! [Read More] ( Dec 01 2005, 01:51:40 AM CST ) Permalink Comments [5]
Tuesday November 15, 2005 Gstreamer and about-me and some GDM work too [Read More] ( Nov 15 2005, 07:02:30 PM CST ) Permalink Comments [4]
Friday November 04, 2005 GDM News ...enhancing GDM's configuration system [Read More] ( Nov 04 2005, 07:14:17 PM CST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Wednesday October 12, 2005 GNOME Summit Boston is beautiful too! [Read More] ( Oct 12 2005, 06:58:08 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [0]
Friday August 05, 2005 This week I've been hacking on GDM, its now branched for 2.12 and is getting close to a point where Sun can start considering replacing the default login program (CDE login) with GDM. This will be nice, since GDM supports accessibility. Over the past few weeks, GDM went through the ARC process since the project team thought the code was ready. One nice thing about going through the ARC peer review is it highlighted a number of issues we had overlooked. Many improvements that they pointed out are now in the GDM codebase. A few of them (/etc/login/default support) is Solaris specific, but others (fixing GET_CONFIG gdmflexiserver command and better backwards support for Welcome/RemoteWelcome are generally useful. There's a few more fixes in the pipeline, but need some more work before I can commit them. I'm also hoping the release team approves the GUI change for gdmsetup since I think it really makes gdmsetup nicer to user.
I need to update the GNOME Interface Specification based on discussion that has been happening on the GNOME desktop-devel-list and release-team mail aliases. These discussions highlighted quite a bit of GNOME process that isn't well documented on the Release Team website. Many of the issues highlighted in the Interface Table are resolved just by having a better understanding of the process. I plan to do this on Monday. I've been pushing the GNOME Release Team to improve their process documentation. I think even if the GNOME community just better documents the current process, it would be a big step in the right direction. Also, Bala from Wipro is now working with me on improving the Interface Stability issues withing GNOME. I asked him to help by getting the glib/GTK+ abicheck scrips working better (so they work on Solaris and check symbols in addition to functions), and to help getting similar abicheck scripts working for other Platform libraries. I think this is a good step towards better process. I'm going to go ahead and put together a matrix highlighting how well each Platform module documents its interfaces which will hopefully be an input to figuring out how to further improve release team process as it relates to interface documentation.
I've also been working with Bala over the past few weeks to improve free multimedia support in Solaris GNOME. We've updated our build system so we now include Flac, Speex, and Theora support in addition to Ogg-Vorbis (which we shipped with JDS3). This, I think, is a good step towards providing more universal access to free media and encouring the use of free/open standards, which Sun has a long history of supporting.
I'm glad it's Friday. Today is my sister's birthday, so I'm looking forward to having some fun celebrations this evening. Have a great weekend everybody.
( Aug 05 2005, 07:08:12 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [0]
Wednesday July 20, 2005 As of late I have been working on interface stability and hacking on GDM [Read More] ( Jul 20 2005, 04:55:31 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
