*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.

Positive Feedback

Lately I've gotten alot of positive feedback on Parcellite. I'm glad fellow open source enthusiasts are able to find use of my little project. Unfortunately I haven't gotten the chance to sit down and work on it because of "real life." Hopefully soon I can sit down and hack away version 0.8 which will include some new features and improvements, most of which have been suggested by the users.

Twitter Client

I tried Twitux but I didn't like it. So instead, when I have the time, I'll write a PyGTK client using the python-twyt wrapper. Of course I'll probably do this after I work on Parcellite, which I've been neglecting lately.

Anyone know any twitter clients besides Twitux?

Edit: I designed a GUI in glade I am happy with and instead picked the python-twitter wrapper. After I finish Parcellite v0.8 I will work more on it. Also, I'm calling it Nitwit :)

Xcompmgr

I wanted to compile my own xcompmgr, so I fetched it from its git repo:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xcompmgr

Compiled it and ran it using these options:

xcompmgr -cC -t-3 -l-5 -r5

And this was the result:



There's a problem though. Because of a security update to X.org, xcompmgr causes terrible slowdown with terminals (gnome-terminal, urxvt, etc) and there appears to be no workaround at the moment.

Parcellite v0.7

Finally released v0.7 which I had sitting on the subversion repository for a while because of school/work. Get it while it's hot.

ChangeLog

v0.7 Sunday, March 30 2008

New
+ Added man page.
+ Option to disable/enable saving history.

Changes
+ Removed startup option.
+ Performance improvements.
+ Runs at startup by default in GNOME (remove via GNOME's Sessions application).
+ Config now saves in ~/.config/parcellite following freedesktop.org specifications.
+ Data now saves in ~/.local/share/parcellite following freedesktop.org specifications.
+ Bugfix: Assertion error on first run.