This is the archive for March 2008. Recent posts can be found at the main blog page.

Thanks for the constructive comments

Sunday, March 16, 2008 ★ 13:50 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url

Dear user,

We have seen your constructive comments posted in the middle of the night:

03:07:39 < kindofabuzz> why is evince eating up processing power even though no pdf is open?
03:10:37 < kindofabuzz> anyone here?
03:10:47 < kindofabuzz> screw it, i'll just uninstall it

Thanks for the feedback. Your contributions are highly appreciated. If you have any further issues, please don’t hesitate to report those.

Love,

The Evince maintainers

Happy Pi Day!

Friday, March 14, 2008 ★ 15:27 ★ Category Misc ★ Permanent url

Just like last year and the year before it’s Pi Day again!

Happy Pi Day

One of the postcards that used to hang on my wall. Yes, I know the number is not correctly rounded, but the card came with only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and candle stickers!

(This is the third year in a row I post this blog post. Perhaps I should automate it.)

Gnome 2.22 is out!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 ★ 22:29 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url

Gnome 2.22

And of course the release notes are available in Dutch. Hoera!

Epiphany Extensions 2.22.0 is out!

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 ★ 14:49 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url

I just rolled a Epiphany Extensions 2.22.0 tarball that plays nicely with Epiphany 2.22.0. You can grab it (while it’s hot!) from the usual place:

Trac SiblingNav plugin

Thursday, March 6, 2008 ★ 13:29 ★ Category Programming ★ Permanent url

Recently I’ve become a fan of using Trac for various projects I’m involved with, both professional and personal. The only issue I’m repeatedly having is the lack of a useful navigation box for hierarchical wiki pages. Existing navigation macros and plugins just don’t fit my needs, since they require you to build a menu yourself or make wrong assumptions. Fortunately, writing a plugin is not that hard…

I’m presenting you my shiny new SiblingNav plugin for Trac (tested with version 0.10.4). It looks like this on a subpage in a hierarchial wiki structure:

Trac SiblingNav plugin

This plugin adds a [[SiblingNav]] wiki macro resulting in a listing of the wiki path leading to the current page and a list of sibling pages. This is only useful for a hierarchic wiki structure, e.g. Meeting/20080218 is a subpage of Meeting. This plugin does the right thing for both top pages and subpages.

The macro accepts an optional argument with the page prefix for which to build a navigation menu, e.g. [[SiblingNav(Meeting)]] If omitted, the current page name is used. This covers the vast majority of use cases.

The output is modeled after the standard trac navigation and some other plugins, i.e. it uses the wiki-toc class on the surrounding HTML div, so it should show up as a familiar navigation pane.

You can get this plugin by either branching the Trac SiblingNav Bazaar branch like this:

bzr branch http://uwstopia.nl/geek/projects/trac/SiblingNav.uws/

...or alternatively by just copying the SiblingNav.py file to your wiki-macros/ directory.

I’ve listed the plugin at the Trac Hacks site as well so it’s more easily found by fellow Trac users: SiblingNav at TracHacks

Give it a try if you’re looking for something like this! Feedback is welcome!