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libgoo & gst-goo
Back in 2007 I started to work integrating OpenMAX IL components into the GStreamer platform.
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misc
Do you remember that I promised not to use a minimalist window manager? Well, sorry, another broken promise. Since I started to play around with imapfilter, I discovered lua. Moreover, a comment in a previous post made a mention of awesome, a minimalist window manager configured through lua. So, I installed it, play with it, and suddenly I got delighted with all of its features: Awesome comes along pretty well with Gnome and its panel, which I didn’t want to lose at all. Besides, Awesome provides its own panel (called widget box, a.k.a. wibox), which includes a systray (sadly, awesome systray steals the icons from the gnome-panel systray). I’ve found that a tidy desktop, which avoids to the user unnecessary mouse interactions, is much more relaxed and helps the user to focus on her task. We’ll see how this experiment ends.
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the true imap usage: imapfilter
As I said before, I have been using mutt as my e-mail client, and I’m really getting into it. It does what it is supposed to do, cleanly and fast.
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The SSU nightmare
In the Maemo domain, there’s a concept called SSU, Seamless Software Updates, which is the mean to update the whole operative system without reflashing the device.