Further GUADEC thoughts

I've been to some rather interesting talks, notably j5's talk on JavaScript. I would like to turn Gnusto into a JS-based GNOME desktop app.

The wifi infrastructure is solid:

...the gateway to the rest of the world less so.

I need to work harder on patch review in Metacity.

I shall be helping give a talk tomorrow morning at 0930 in the Copenhagen room; I'll be talking about xzibit.

xzibit currently has a bug where all menus are resized to 10x10. I need to build some test programs to find out why.

Someone from Canonical is doing work on notification icons in titlebars, which is a) something that xzibit needs that I'm currently hacking in rather badly and b) interestingly similar to the question of "why can't we have extra buttons in Metacity?", which I am frequently asked. I am therefore comparing notes with them, so as not to duplicate effort.


Canonical's party was last night; I went but didn't hang around; I was tired and couldn't get near the bar. I did take a photo outside the place, and was then approached by a large drunken Dutchman who wanted to know why I was taking photos of him and whether he could see my phone to see the pictures. I used my superpower of invisibility to escape. (It's a good job I packed a d20.)

Collabora's party is tonight, on the beach.

imgur in nautilus

There is an image hosting site called imgur.com which allows you to upload with zero configuration. You just upload a file and that's all there is to it. There are daily limits per IP address, but they're fairly high.

I thought it would be useful to add this capability to nautilus, so I wrote something very quick and dirty to do so. I don't claim it's polished work: I wrote it in a couple of hours. Patches are nevertheless welcome. I'm also considering turning it into a libsharing plugin for the N900.

At present it doesn't allow you to delete the images you upload. I know how I want to do this, and you can probably tell from reading the code, but I left it out of this version for simplicity.

I think if this was polished up a bit it would be useful enough to package. What do you think?

My thanks to the organisers

If anything should happen to The Hague,
if someday they abandon Amsterdam,
philosophers will take these strange and vague
descriptions, and derive each tree and tram
by mathematical necessity:
should nations shake their fists across the seas
with words of war, it follows there must be
a middle ground, a people loving peace.
And is this scrap alone a netherland?
Not so: we spend our nights beneath the sky,
and every country's low for us, who stand
a thousand miles below the lights on high;
if only I could learn to live as such,
and count myself as kindly as the Dutch.