Friends

Thanks to everybody who added me on their Orkut list.. Even my Spamassassin thought it was spam :) I've started digging in the website and it is really nice. Too bad its UI is not yet available for non-english speaker.
Oh, BTW, of course, in my last entry, I was speaking about Solutions Linux 2004 (thanks Sergej)

Solutions Linux and other things

Yesterday, I was on Solutions Linux 2004 exhibition (previously known as Linux Expo Paris). I was at Mandrakesoft booth the entire morning (our booth was a little too small, so I could't do my 1/2h hour presentation of the distro) but many people came and when I had some time to rest, it was already 2pm.. I was on GNOME-FR booth (BTW, thanks again Tim and HP for the nice posters) and I did some demo on the accessibility tools such as gnopernicus, gok and dasher.
There was a nice evening meal with all the associations which were on Solutions Linux and there was a very productive discussion between all the french-speaking GNOME guys (there will be probably more about that in the following weeks).
It seems I don't any friend, since I didn't receive any mail to join Orkut :(

Menus and various stuff

Havoc: ok, I failed too to get XDG menus in a good shape in time for MandrakeLinux 10.0. I had a working patch Friday afternoon but it failed support for the optional Layout/DefaultLayout from XDG menu spec and after a quick discussion with Mark, getting it working in a clean way can't be done quickly. And I'm not very confident in the quality
of my patch. So, MandrakeLinux 10.0 will still use our patched version of Debian menu system and I plan to push my patch and get everything in shape as soon as GNOME 2.7 will start.
Yesterday, a friend of mine came to give me back books and DVD I lent him and he showed me Beyond Good And Evil on PS2 : very nice game, done by a french team of UbiSoft, in Montpellier..
Today, I went to see Gothika with a friend. Not bad but not exceptional..
I was very sad when I read about Mark Finlay death. I didn't knew him but I read his blog on PlanetGNOME and I could see his contribution to GNOME. The last 3 months have really been bad for GNOME hackers :(

Happy New Year, etc..

First, before I forget Happy New Year folks :)
I spent one week at Christmas in my family house with my mom and I could enjoy viewing for a second time both LOTR 1 & 2 (full edition) and Dune and Children of Dune (and also playing a lot to Jak 2 on my PS2 :)
Last week wasn't a busy week at the office (only two days of work, mainly reading emails), I celebrated New Eve with friends and when we woke up (at 9:00 by the 9 month old baby of my friends), there was snow all around.. Really nice.
Today, I was able to push a new metacity theme named Galaxy2 by our marketing people, which is a small evolution from the original Galaxy metacity theme.
Havoc, you should read your email :) I sent you, before Christmas, my first fixes for desktop-file-utils so it almost validates menu-spec 0.8. I was able to work on it today and I'm hoping to really fix the remaining non-compliance this week... But I must confess d-f-u should be released with aspirin :)
On the hardware side, my LCD monitor is doing strange things again : I had the following problem only from time to time and it was disappearing after 30 mins of activity. The problem rans away but last thursday, I got this : . Problably the snow version of the initial problem. It disappeared after 45mins and I didn't get it back until now. I know I have to return my LCD monitor but it is the only monitor I have at home. So, I'll have to plug my tranquilPC on my TV set and use 40px fonts for two weeks :((

Back online

So, I've found some time to update my blog.
Mini-itx/TranquilPC sent me a new system (they had to send it three times because french postal service wasn't able to access my home building to put a receipt so I could get my system at the post office :(
It is working fine but it had 2 problems : the internal Firewire/USB plugs are missing (I'm waiting for a response from Mini-itx) and one of the soldering on the PCI adapter was too big and was causing the internal ethernet plug to go offline when a PCI card was plugged. Fortunately, I was able to fix it with my own soldering iron..
Anyway, my server is back online and silence is back in my flat :)

New planet gnome bug :)

Jeff, why do I have the feeling I'm somehow related to the bug you found in the new version of planet gnome ? :)))

Bad luck or what ?

Today, I went to my post office since I never got AR for my tranquilPC I sent 3 weeks ago. And I've learn there was massive strike at English Postal Service. Must be destiny or something like that..
Better news : one of my Tai Chi friends wanted to buy a PDA so I proposed her to buy my Clié so I could buy new Palm Tungsten T3. I've ordered it yesterday and I should get it in about 10 days. Which mean I'll be able to drop MP3 and switch to Ogg Vorbis. Yepee.