Parcellite Moved to SourceForge

Over the weekend I moved the Parcellite project to SourceForge. The new website can be found at http://parcellite.sourceforge.net


The new checkout command is svn co https://parcellite.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/parcellite/trunk parcellite


My blog will also soon be moved :)

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.

*work work work*

If you haven't noticed, I have been a little inactive lately. That's because I started working full time and I'm still getting use to managing the little amount of time I have after my commute. I've also been working out some kinks on my grad school submission and my new apartment.

I really need to sit down and finish v0.8 of Parcellite. Though technically it's ready for release, I just need to clean it up a bit and add my own Spanish translation to it (and others). Version 0.7 is now available in Debian and Ubuntu's official repositories though :)

*hack hack hack*

Sat down for a while to work on v0.8 of Parcellite and managed to commit some changes to the way actions are executed. I used to use a simple system() call, but in its single-threaded nature Parcellite would become unresponsive until it finished executing your action. I implemented a simple pthread for each action executed so that you may continue to use the clipboard manager as it executes your desired action, something I should have done from the start but oh well :)

Finals &

This Friday I start finals, which I finish may 19th. I managed to commit some bugfixes for Parcellite during the weekend. As soon as finals are over I'll finish what it needs for a 0.8 release.