Virtual Reality

A few days ago Philip wrote the following in the tinymail mailing list in response to a patch that I sent to the list:

Yep, let's go for this. Commit please    

Don't forget our poor little ChangeLog file

I thought, OK Philip it could be poor, but little? Then I decided to take a deeper look to our lovely ChangeLog file and I extracted some figures. First of all the number of entries is 153, really impressive if you realize that the first commit was made on 2006-01-17, just one year ago. The list of contributors ordered by number of entries is shown next

As you could see, there are great names there, and I’m currently in the second place, Philip don’t look behind because I’m getting closer .

Again, a lot of time since my last post. If you’re interested, yes I’m still happy and I’m still contributing to tinymail. My contributions decreased a little bit these last weeks because I had other priorities but I’ll try to keep them going.

This afternoon I was trying to use the nice GtkUIManager stuff inside a Hildon application but when trying to add a new menu described in the UI XML definition file to the HildonWindow I realized that I had a problem. The reason is that hildon_window_set_menu expects a GtkMenu as second argument, but the GtkUIManager gives me a GtkMenuBar.

So I had to add an utility function to the code that converts from a GtkMenuBar to a GtkMenu. As you could see it’s really simple, but the very nice thing is that it still uses the definitions of the UI XML file.

GtkWidget *
menubar_to_menu (GtkUIManager *ui_manager) {
GtkWidget *main_menu;
GtkWidget *menubar;
GList *iter;

/* Create new main menu */
main_menu = gtk_menu_new();

/* Get the menubar from the UI manager */
menubar = gtk_ui_manager_get_widget (ui_manager, "/MenuBar");

iter = gtk_container_get_children (GTK_CONTAINER (menubar));
while (iter) {
GtkWidget *menu;

menu = GTK_WIDGET (iter->data);
gtk_widget_reparent(menu, main_menu);

iter = g_list_next (iter);
}
return main_menu;
}