Evolution hacking, using mmap and Debian Release party in Belgium

Evolution hacking

I’ve been trying to improve the ENameSelectorEntry widget of Evolution. It’s that widget that you can find next to the To: and Cc: button in your E-mail composer (and many other places). The thing with it is (or was) that when you removed a comma-character, it got a little confused about what you’re trying to delete. So coming up in some next release of Evolution: an improved name-selector widget!

I also managed to adjust the Makefile.am’s of evolution-data-server so that it will load in gnome-build (and Anjuta 2.0). Screenshots here, here and here.

Cheerleading Evolution (was: Hacking Evolution)

IMHO does the current Evolution team need more contributors. I’m serious! :p. There’s a huge amount of great ideas. Like the desire to introduce gtkmozembed as HTML editor component and stuff like that. The current “employed-by-Novell” Evolution team has to support and maintain so much that there’s little place for innovation and new idea’s. More contributors means more innovations. Evolutions needs that. Other examples: The concept of integrating presence notification of instant messengers and video conferencing with Evolution using Galago. There’s also a bounty on that one. Check out the go-evolution wiki if you’re interested. Note that this wiki-with-information will grow as time comes.

The Evolution code just looks huge. In reality it’s rather easy to join the development. Also checkout the information about EPlugins.

mmap-love in Gtk+

People who’ve seen this talk at GUADEC know why. There’s a bug about optimizing Gdk/Gtk+ by replacing fread stuff with mmap.

Debian Release party in Leuven (Belgium)

Little note for the Belgian (and Dutch) readers of my blog:

From: yalu < ...>
To: members at l2u dot iguana dot be
Subject: [L2U] [be.comp.os.linux] Debian Release party
> Hoi,
>
> Vermits Debian eindelijk tot een release gekomen is, vonden "we" (dat
> wil zeggen, p2 en mezelf) het een goed idee om daar een feestje voor op
> te zetten. Iedereen die zin heeft, is uitgenodigd (inclusief mensen die
> zelf geen Debian gebruiken, maar *niet* als het is om andere
> distributies of besturingssystemen aan te prijzen ;-)
>
> Wanneer: Vrijdag 10/6, 21u00
> Waar: Leuven, in caf� Domus
>
> Als je niet weet hoe of waar je de Domus kunt vinden:
>
> * Ga naar het station in Leuven
> * Verlaat het station langs de voorkant en loop de bondgenotenlaan af
>   tot op het fochplein.
> * Ga links de tiensestraat in; een paar 100 meter verder zie je caf�
>   Domus op je rechterkant.
>
> Voel je vrij om dit bericht door te sturen naar andere ge�nteresseerden...