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

Focus color problem

Thursday, January 24, 2008 ★ 16:38 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url

My unstable Gnome build has some issues with the coloring of focused widgets, e.g. selected tabs look like this:

Focus color problem

The same thing happens for empty treeviews: those appear completely colored blue instead of in the regular white. I have no idea how to investigate this further, therefore I’m blogging this. Is this GTK+, the theme engine or something else?

Focus color problem

Update: It seems this is the Clearlooks engine doing some strange focus drawing. Not sure whether it’s intentional, but it’s very annoying and causes e.g. flickering screens when using sloppy focus (open 2 empty nautilus windows and move your mouse to check). Please revert to something sane! Thanks.

Update 2: It seems I’ve unintenionally heated up a discussion. Those interested in this issue may want to CC themselves to bug 480636.

SPARQL birthday present

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 ★ 10:27 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url

The query language for the Semantic Web, SPARQL, has become a W3C Recommendation at my birthday. Yay.

Too bad there is just too much stop energy in this desktop-devel-list thread about using DOAP in Gnome to enable people to do awesome things with Semantic Web technologies.

Muine 0.8.8 for Ubuntu

Thursday, January 17, 2008 ★ 19:02 ★ Category Gnome ★ Permanent url

Since the Ubuntu packages are horribly out of date, rendering the great Muine music player totally useless on Ubuntu systems because of this long-standing Ubuntu Muine bug, I’ve built Muine 0.8.8 packages for Ubuntu: