Location-aware GNOME Shell: session at the DesktopSummit

2011-08-09 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Hi folks, Since most of the developers/designers of GNOME Shell are at the DesktopSummit, I wondered if we could hold a little 1hr/2hr session to design a location-aware GNOME Shell (my Summer of Code project). I did a very bad job at getting design plans on IRC, so a short get-together around thi

Location-aware GNOME Shell: weekly report 8 & 9

2011-07-26 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Hi folks, Week 8 was focused on my control-center panel, I added more functionality and robustness to it, and blessed g_variant_ref_sink() for fixing one of those mysterious ref-counting bugs that keep you stuck for days. After that I took days off and celebrated my birthday most of the nights :).

Location-aware GNOME Shell: weekly report 6 + 7

2011-07-12 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Hi friends, I also skipped report 6, so here is the past two weeks compiled in one report. - integrated a new panel into the gnome-control-center ; it's just called Locations for now, has a homegrown UI not discussed with the designers yet, and it not even sure to stay in there, but this way I ca

Location-aware GNOME Shell - weekly report 3

2011-06-14 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Hello, hello, Still busy with school this week (my last one), but I managed to produce a Glade file this week, rapidly discussed on #gnome-design. You can find a couple experiments on the Wiki page [0]. Still work in progress, and not validated anywhere, but I'll have more time to discuss that w

Location-aware GNOME Shell - weekly report 2

2011-06-06 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Hello, To keep it simple: I haven't produced a lot of work this week, first of all because I have my ultimate project/presentation to prepare for school. I also have a couple issues blocking progress (I rarely do my school work anyway): - Waiting for the outcome of the discussion "On the Interac

Location-aware GNOME Shell - weekly report 1

2011-05-28 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Web version with nothing fancier available at: http://freesteph.info/post/2011/05/28/Location-aware-GNOME-Shell% 3A-Weekly-report-01 Hello, Here's the first weekly report of my summer of code project: making the Shell location-aware with a multi-timezone clock and some weather candy later (didn't

World clock/weather integration in GNOME Shell - we're having a meeting!

2011-05-26 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Hello there, I'm Stéphane Maniaci, the lucky student working on a location-aware GNOME Shell i.e multi-timezone clock and eventually weather applet. I'm sorry to warn the lists on such a short notice (just planned it on #gnome-design), but we're having a meeting in #gnome-design a