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Msearch-gui progresses

As my long weekend plans were dashed by Time Life, I did not get Medusa's GUI fully working. I did refactor the UI to behave better, and added the missing menu of available emblems. I surprised that the emblem's image does not display in the GtkOoptionMenu, but does show in …

Time Life ruined my 10 year anniversary

Anne and I took a four day weekend to the Blue Ridge mountains to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. We stayed at my parent's summer house which they vacated a few weeks ago. The house was recently fixed up, and it is a great escape from the troubles of the …

Medusa get's a new query editor

I decided to postpone using GTKExpander until it was available in Glade, but I've made some refinements to msearch-gui nonetheless. I'm using the checkbox to hide and show the clauses. Only the visible clauses will form the query. I spent more time then necessary making gettext friendly label changes for …

Whompless-tree on the Equinox

Still no phone service after three days, but at least I can drink the water from the taps now. The tree is gone, but I have some minor roof damage. I hurt from yard work. The turkey that started thawing from the power outage is almost ready; tomorrow I'll have …

Distracted by life and Jobs

I haven't contributed nearly as much to GNOME as I wanted to since Hurricane Isable. I've got my house and yard fixed up. My children have been quite demanding in the evening and weekends. I've played with difference GNOME 2.4 distributions. I've been setup up my next job.

I've …

Medusa msearch-gui

I've been working intermitantly on a gui search tool that I can reuse to make widgets and dialogs that can be reused by other applications like Nautilus. I've spent more time than necessary exploring ideas. I looked into making GTKExpander work from glade-2 and libglade, but it is too much …

Whomping trees

I've been entertaining friends who are in dire need of electricity and Internet. I haven't had much time to hack. I've tinkered a little with the GUI Medusa search tool, but I'm not making good progress. I've messed up the signals, probably because I'm thinking in Cocoa or SWT.

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Doctor Who returns

I'm excited to learn that the BBC will be making new Doctor Who episodes. My daughter Indy and I have been watching the Sylvester McCoy episodes that are shown locally. I like the Sylvester's performance best of the actors who played the Doctor. Indy is emulating Ace saying 'wicked' for …

Next generation discovers Doctor Who

Indy and I watched an episode of Doctor Who a few evening ago. It was Sylvester McCoy playing the Doctor in Paradise Towers. She hasn't stopped talking about it so I'll start recording them for her (because she really shouldn't be staying up to 2:00 AM to watch them …