Carlos Garcia Campos

Since I have now a DVD player in my new laptop, I decided to add support for DVD in disks-admin. It’s integrated with totem, so when a DVD video is detected you will be able to play it and totem will be launched.

DVD support in disks-admin

I hope I can start with the fdisk feature as soon as possible

University

I’m enjoyed a lot doing a networks exercise. It’s a reduced version of the TCP protocol: Simple TCP (STCP). For the moment I only have to do the Open and Close functions, for establishing and closing connections. The main problem is that I have to do it in ADA. I have to do a big effort for not thinking in C.

GNOME hackers meeting

The next week will be the second GNOME hackers meeting. I’m going to present the disks tool again

Basketball :: San Pancracio Team

We have tomorrow the thrid match of the league. We have lost the first two matches, so we need to win this third one. I hope that our new pet (steve-o evil) give us good luck.

San Pancracio’s pet (steve-o evil)

I already have a hackergotchi for Planeta GNOME Hispano. Thanks to zioma!

Zioma working on my hackergotchi

JuventudeCantabriaNet

Photos in my gallery 🙂

I’m a bit tired, we had not much time to sleep this weekend in Pamplona.

On Saturday morning we presented our projects. The first was acs who presented planner and the integration with evolution. Garnacho talked about gnome-system-tools and presented us the new module shares-admin, a nice tool that makes easy to share folders with NFS or samba. I was the next, I could present disks-admin, the other new gnome-system-tools module. I talked about the past, present and future of the tool. Chema showed us Fisterra, a generic ERP (Enterprise Resource Planner). The next it was talk about the Spanish GNOME Development book, and finally Rodrigo talked for a long time about the Evolution architecture.

In the afternoon we worked in working groups and acs presented GNOME 2.8 using ubuntu. The Sunday morning was no less productive, Rodrigo showed how to use jhbuild while some other people continued hacking in working groups.

Personally it has been a great weekend, I’ve learned how to integrate an application with Nautilus by adding a new Nautilus context menu entry. I’ve also added drag and drop support in shares-admin, you can now add a new shared folder by simply dragging it to shares-admin window. And finally I’ve fixed some bugs in disks-admin.

We are now planning the next GNOME meeting in my new university (URJC) in Madrid 🙂

There are more photos of this weekend in my gallery.

I’ve just committed some changes into disks-admin, and you can now format partitions (ext2, ext3, vfat, XFS, ReiserFS, jfs, …).

Disks-admin formatting a partition

I have tried to not use technical words, since disks-admin is thought to be a user tool, but it’s in fact a sysadmin tool. Sometimes it’s not easy to find the right word in this kind of tools. Tasks like formatting partitions or creating / deleting partitions are more and more needed by the common users.

I want to say that disks-admin is not a gparted clone, since disks-admin is thought to become a complete user-friendly storage manager (not only disks, but cdroms, floppies, …) and not only to manage partitions, but to manage fstab, browse storage hardware, etc.

Disks-admin is still in early development status. The next feature to be implemented will be the partitions management (create and delete), and I hope that garnacho can help me with the fstab stuff.