Time Travel

Each day is a battle against time, there isn't enough in my day. I have been able to trickle down some i18n support in Parcellite during the last few days. I've had some translations that some nice contributors sent me sitting around and I finally was able to commit them to svn (german and italian). I have french and spanish to commit and I'll be done.

Aside from that, I've been looking for an alternative host to Google Code for the project (and future projects). I don't really like its "issues" system and it just lacks in general. So far I'm thinking DevjaVu or Assembla. Comments? Suggestions?

Open Source Developers are Amazing

I started writing Parcellite when I was a full time student, with little responsibilities. I was able to dedicate a large amount of time to carefully writing, testing, and debugging my little program during the week. Now that I have a full time job, I realize just how much dedication and effort other open source developers have to write great applications in what little free time they have. I am finding that either new responsibilities (which came with living my myself) and other interests (gaming/girlfriend) have kept me from quickly progressing on my program.

I have come up with an idea though: I will attempt to code 1 hour a day, every day. Be it a variable name change, testing a new function, fix comments, anything. As long as I keep myself busy with it, I'll be able to reach the goals that I have for this project in a reasonable amount of time.

Blips on the Radar

Those of you using Parcellite from the subversion repository might notice some activity slowly crawling along if you update it frequently. Here are some of the features available on svn:

New
+ Added daemon mode.
+ Added reverse history option.
+ Added no-icon option (use Ctrl-Alt-P for the menu).

Changes
+ Menu generation and display is quicker.
+ Selected items also get copied to primary.
+ History shows newest item first by default.
+ Performance and overall improvement on action executions.

I believe I will be releasing 0.8 shortly with the features and changes described above. Although support for internationalization is in place, there is currently no translations in place (though I do have french and spanish translations available). The reason for that is I will be adding support for the x-selection clipboard and translations in the consequent release.