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The Open Sourcerer : Python
09  août     18h56
Please help test (and fix) GTG’s GTK 4 port
Jeff    We need to determine when it would be safe to merge our core rewrite GTK port to GTG’s main code repository. This is how you can help
03  mars     17h00
Getting Things GNOME 0.6 released
Jeff    Yes, ladies, gentlemen, and seemingly dead plants, it’s happening: after over months of incremental work from the community, we are now releasing version . of our favorite personal productivity app, Getting Things GNOME. This release comes with some new features, lots of code improvements,...
20  février     16h20
GTG 0.6 release candidate
Jeff    Today we are publishing a release candidate version of Getting Things GNOME . . You can either try it out directly from the git master version by running launch.sh; see the general instructions , or from the testing package available on Flathub’s beta repository, separately from the standard...
25  janvier     14h30
The Software Upgrade Treadmill and Life’s crazy chain of dependencies an epic tale about Firefox, GTG, Python, and Linux distros
Jeff    Modern software update cycles now happen at a breakneck pace, and it can be a challenge for users to keep up. Life’s chain of dependencies to get back on track when a piece of your workflow breaks can be daunting. This epic tale illustrates the invisible struggle.
06  avril     14h00
Getting Things GNOME 0.5 released
Jeff    It is time to welcome a new release of the Rebuild of EvanGTGelion: . , You Can Not Improve Performance This release of GTG has been months in the making after the groundbreaking . release. While . was a major perfect storm overhaul, . is also a very technology intensive release,...
27  février     23h53
A new data format has landed in the upcoming GTG 0.5
Jeff    Here’s a general call for testing from your favorite pythonic native Linux desktop personal productivity app, GTG. In recent months, Diego tackled the epic task of redesigning the XML file format from a new specification devised with the help of Brent Saner proposal episodes, and , and then...
30  décembre     12h25
Blogging about Python desktop apps improvements on Planet Python
Jeff    Hi, fellow pythonistas Before I start publishing future Python related posts to this aggregator, I would like to shortly introduce myself and the reason for this blog’s presence on the planet. I am a business management consultant, but I am also, in my spare time, an independent free open source...
31  octobre     21h29
Spooky GTG features to try out for Halloween 2020
Jeff    Are you an irresistible creature with an insatiable love for the dead bugs Well, grab your bug hunter crossbow, because we need you to test some big technological changes in GTG so that we can confidently release version . sometime soon way before the year end, ideally . Synchronizing your...
07  juillet     12h00
Rebuild of EvanGTGelion: Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released
Jeff    We are very proud to be announcing today the . release of Getting Things GNOME GTG, codenamed You Are Not Done . This much awaited release is a major overhaul that brings together many updates and enhancements, including new features, a modernized user interface and updated underlying...
19  novembre     22h42
Pitivi 0.95 Enfant Suisse
Jeff    Hey everyone It’s time for a new Pitivi release, . . This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In this blog post, I’ll give you an overview of the new and interesting stuff this release brings, coming out from a year of hard work. It’s pretty...
03  novembre     04h30
Tricks or Tracebacks? Pitivi 0.94 is here
Jeff    Dear werepenguins, we’re thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Pitivi . This is the fourth release for the new version of our video editor based on GES, the GStreamer Editing Services library. Take a look at my previous blog post to understand in what context . has been brewing....
29  janvier     05h20
Presenting and hacking Pitivi at Pycon 2014
Jeff    Pycon, or what I’d call the main Pycon vs one of the sub Pycons , has traditionally always been held in the United States of America. This year, it will be held in Montréal. The most astute among you might have noticed that Montréal Québec is not actually in the USA because trying to capture...
04  septembre     21h45
Fix it thrice
Jeff    Some of you may be familiar with the good old fix it twice adage: fix the problem and then ensure it never happens again. Last year, when I made Pitivi’s automatic backup feature work, I requested someone to write extensive automated tests for it with Dogtail , so that I could feel confident...
22  mars     02h43
A program’s obsolescence
Jeff    In , I had a crazy idea upon which I started the Specto project. Initially, I thought I’d call my revolutionary piece of software WhileYouWereOut continuing the world’s tradition of ill chosen project names , because it really was about solving a core want in my life: to leave my computer...
15  novembre     15h13
Persistent tab states, render UX polish and other things
Jeff    With some help from luisbg, I finally reworked and merged a years old patch of mine. It turned out to be less trivial than expected, because we had to change the settings backend to allow loading reading configuration files at runtime for our dynamically generated tab components. So, what the...
15  octobre     16h52
Autohiding fullscreen toolbar, error dialogs and file format filtering
Jeff    Here’s one of the reasons why I’m not exactly in a hurry to learn C. When you ask me to read through C code, this is what happens: No jokes. Even after simplifying and compacting the code, it’s still such a pain for me to navigate through C that I actually felt the need to output
24  juin     21h08
Don’t make me scroll
Jeff    Let me tell you about a small usability improvement in Pitivi that might provide some inspiration to others. See, I hate scrolling. Unless it’s absolutely necessary and the dialog is bigger than my screen’s height or you expect to tile windows vertically, as an application developer you should...
23  juin     20h19
Specto 0.4 released
Jeff    I’ve been holding off a Specto release for way too long. See my previous post on the matter for some insights into why Specto . was released after Duke Nukem Forever. This development hell streak ends today. If there are still people out there using this piece of software, go grab the new tarball...
24  novembre     21h23
Improving project loading performance
Jeff    When you load a project in PiTiVi, importing the clips into the media library also known internally as the source list is pretty fast, but inserting them in the timeline is painfully slow. So I whipped out my torture test project and spent some time profiling what’s going on using Python’s...
14  octobre     03h23
Introducing: Recipe Manager
Jeff    Three years ago, Daniel Taylor of Arista fame made a small application designed to store and manage your favourite recipes. It was simple, lightweight, elegant. He called it Recipe Manager got a better, unique name, anyone and released a technology preview along with the file format spec...