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Staring into the Axis’ Abyss: the Railgun map | Nekohayo !
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La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. Staring into the Axis’ Abyss: the Railgun map. August 5, 2012. This blog post will not be picked up by the usual news sites. News sites don’t care about positive things, it is much more interesting to talk about impending doom. People don’t like change. 8220;YOU MORONIC FREEDOM HATING NAZIS, WE TOLD YOU, WE TOLD YOU SO! The silent, happy userbase just doesn’t spend time fighting the haters in the comment sections of Slashdot, “OMG! The desktop is dead.
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Fix it thrice | Nekohayo !
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La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. September 4, 2013. Some of you may be familiar with the good old “ fix it twice. 8221; 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 about this feature never being broken again, even if it underwent massive refactoring or if everything else changed around it. To ens...
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On GtkSwitch | Nekohayo !
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La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. March 13, 2011. GTK3 includes the new switch button. Sadly, at the time of this writing, there seems to be no HIG recommendation for it yet. So I’m left to guess what its proper use should or shouldn’t be. I’m all for choice/flexibility for developers, but what has been worrying me slightly in the new Control Center is the possible abuse of this new widget. Currently, it’s all over the place. Screenshot would illustrate my point:. That’s what scr...
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Reducing our core apps’ software inventory | Nekohayo !
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La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. Reducing our core apps’ software inventory. October 8, 2012. I’m not even nearly done; this will take time and patience, especially since I want to do the same thing with Empathy, which also expressed interest in a radical round of cleanup. What I’d like to convince you of is the need to reduce our “excess inventory”. Of cleaners/triagers, each closing a dozen bugs every day. Some general principles I would like to share in this blog post:. If you know...
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Pourquoi je quitte Ubuntu pour Fedora | Nekohayo !
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La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. Pourquoi je quitte Ubuntu pour Fedora. April 28, 2011. La dernière fois que j’ai été utilisateur de Fedora. À plein temps, c’était il y a plus de sept ans. Ubuntu. Fit son apparition en 2004, s’imposant rapidement comme distribution phare par sa promesse de gratuité (détruisant par le fait même le modèle d’affaires des distributions commerciales pour individus) et son centrage autour de GNOME. Octobre 2010: Canonical dévoile soudainement Unity. Comme i...
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On Software Patents | Nekohayo !
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La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. December 21, 2009. While I admire RMS. 8216; stance and resolve, the whole “Mono can’t be trusted because there’s submarine patents” argument isn’t worth crap. If you view software patents as a legitimate entity,. Software is at risk (including OGG Theora, the Linux kernel and its alleged “235 infringements” by Microsoft, the Samba project, OpenOffice.org, mplayer, and probably even Specto). Software patents are nonsense. We should destroy them.
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Prenez garde aux tabloïdes de l’open-source | Nekohayo !
http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2013/02/17/prenez-garde-aux-tabloides-de-lopen-source
La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. Prenez garde aux tabloïdes de l’open-source. February 17, 2013. Image de Chandler Reed, citation d’un livre que vous connaissez sûrement. Au-delà de l’Internet. Pour commencer, je n’ai jamais eu confiance envers le pouvoir médiatique. De ce que j’avais pu conclure du visionnement de Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. On me le dit ou. Ce qu’on ne me dit pas. Assez contextualisé maintenant, amorçons le sujet du jour. Les tabloïdes du libre.
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President’s Report — The State of the GNOME Foundation | Nekohayo !
http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2015/05/07/presidents-report-the-state-of-the-gnome-foundation
La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. President’s Report The State of the GNOME Foundation. May 7, 2015. As I hinted in my retrospective in February. 2014 has been crazy busy on a personal level. Let’s now take a look at 2014-2015 from a GNOME. When I offered my candidacy. For the GNOME Foundation. For one thing, I can say that running a branding and management consulting business at the same time as you’re steering an established public charity like the GNOME Foundation is definitely.
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A program’s obsolescence | Nekohayo !
http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2013/03/21/a-programs-obsolescence
La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. A program’s obsolescence. March 21, 2013. In 2005, I had a crazy idea upon which I started. Project. Initially, I thought I’d call my revolutionary piece of software. 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 alone and catch up with events when I’d come back in front of it. And I was sick of refreshing ifolder.com. But why stop there? Once this ̶...
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Desktop in the Shell | Nekohayo !
http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2010/07/25/desktop-in-the-shell
La vie personnelle du chat. Skip to primary content. Desktop in the Shell. July 25, 2010. I once wrote a nice rant about the inadequacy of the desktop metaphor. In the light of the upcoming GNOME 3. The more document-centric Shell. And the browser-mode nautilus. Instead of spatial mode), I wanted to remix my thoughts a bit. I am not a developer and I am not on the Shell or Nautilus teams. The idea of a desktopless environment was briefly raised on the Nautilus mailing list. However, I haven’t seen ...
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