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Hi, folks.

It’s known that the support to SiS video cards are too poor on Linux, right? Recently my old laptop broke and my company gave me a very poor new one, with a SiS [671/771] video card. After searching a bit on Google, I managed to install a driver that at least gives me 1280×800 as resolution. However, 3D (aka compiz) doesn’t work.

Without a composite window manager, I can’t run GNOME-Do’s Docky. What’s the solution?

Enable compositing in Metacity: Open the GConf Editor (Alt-F2 -> gconf-editor) program, go to the key /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager and enable it, so that it be checked.

Voilá! You have a composite desktop running and you’re able to run GNOME-DO’s Docky!

Unfortunately, gnome-shell doesn’t work and thus, no GNOME 3 for me :’(

If you know any trick to make gnome-shell work on those poor SiS drivers, please share it!

Hi, folks. Last week I did a survey here in Brazil regarding people donating money to GNOME. The survey was restrict to Brazilian people, so, I only did it in the Portuguese language. Here is the link if you can read pt_BR.

The survey had 373 responses. See the result (winner option in bold):

1) Do you currently contribute with code, translation or something similar in GNOME?
Yes – 14%
No – 86%

2) Would you donate money to GNOME?
Yes – 79%
No – 21%

3) If yes, would you donate monthly (depending on the amount)?
Yes – 42%
No – 58%

4) Which is the best way to make the donation?
Paypal – International credit card – 31%
Boleto – 36% (Boleto is the most popular way to make payments in Brazil)
Direct transfer into a Brazilian bank account – 33%

This shows that most people (69%) prefer to make the donation in a “Brazilian” way, rather than using international transactions. We’re going to work with the Foundation to find a solution to this issue.

Lots of people had some common questions, in the comments section of the survey. I’ll answer those:

Minimum amount for donations
There’s no such constraint. What currently happens in Friends of GNOME program is: if you donate a minimum amount of USD10.00 for a whole year, you get a gift. Or if you donate a bigger value, you get another gift. Everything is explained here. If you do not wish to get a gift, you can donate the value you want.

Where is my money going?
Usually this question is made by who is outside the project, someone who doesn’t follow the project. Often the Foundation publish reports about all activities during a year, or a quarter, finances included. For instance, take a look here and here. Also, follow the Foundation blog and Planet GNOME. We try to be as transparent as possible. If – even after analyzing the above reports – you still have a doubt or you’re not satisfied with something, please contact us.

By buying t-shirts and other GNOME stuff in events where we are present, you’re also helping the project. All money received is used to help the Foundation with travel, hotel, etc, for the participants of the event.

So, I hope this survey is useful not only for Brazilians, but for people in other countries where Paypal (or international transactions in general) are not so popular. Let’s find alternative methods for people to donate [more] to the GNOME Foundation.

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A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q. Why is top posting bad?

As seen in Simos Xenitellis email, for instance, here.

wendell@wendell-laptop:~$ locate church
wendell@wendell-laptop:~$

Let’s fix this on the free desktop!

Hello, folks.

It has been a long time since last post, blame microblogging services . This is a post just to [randomically] say what I’m doing in my [dis]connected life.

Since November I started developing a product as a freelancer. It is finished, as we can call it 1.0. It was built on top of GNOME technologies and will run on GNOME machines, but unfortunately it’s not a free software. Yet. The plan is to release it as a free product when “it’s the right time”®.

Because of this project, I paused some development I was doing in Vinagre. I was working on SSH tunneling, aka VNC over SSH. I will restart the work before the end of the week, but I’m not sure if it will get into GNOME 2.30 because “Feature Freeze” and “UI freeze” are too close.

I have lots of things to do in both Vino and Vinagre, but unfortunately I don’t have all free time I wish. In a ideal world, I wish I got paid to work on GNOME. Yes, I know there’s no “ideal world”

So, please, wait patiently another cycle for big features, like RDP support in Vinagre. I hope you understand.

As last year I haven’t contributed to the Ubuntu project as I liked, I did not renew my Ubuntu membership. So, I’m not an Ubuntu member anymore, and my email address @ubuntu.com is not valid. Once I have done more contributions, I’ll reapply.

In other news, I just back from vacation, this time I did not travel or something, because my wife was operated, so, I spent all time taking care of her at home, with family. And I enjoyed it a lot!

Since last year we moved to our own home (an apartment), I own a motorcycle (best way to head to office), I use glasses and dental braces.

A goal for this year is to write a GNOME game (probably using Vala or Python). I won’t tell you what game it is to not break the surprise

See you!

Dear lazyweb,

Is there a GTK+ widget that draws a box with a rounded corner, just like those found in Gwibber? And that I could put my own stuff inside it?

Or it’s possible to do this easily?

I’m afraid not, so I will have to do it in HTML/WebKitGTK.

Hello, Internet! Today I just released Vinagre 2.29.1, with new cool features:

Reverse Connections (Listener mode of vncviewer):

I need help to create the documentation for this feature: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597110

Ability to change the depth color and use JPEG compression (lossy encoding):

And a mini-toolbar in bookmarks panel:

Read the complete announcement: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2009-October/msg00069.html

If you want to be updated as the changes happen, just follow me at twitter or identica.

BTW, it would be nice if someone created a PPA repository (Ubuntu) for unstable vinagre. If you are interested, mail me!

Hi, folks. Yesterday I released vino and vinagre 2.27.90 (aka 2.28 Beta 1). News since 2.26:

Vino

• Drop libgnome dependency (using libegg now)
  
• Drop libglade dependency (using gtkbuilder now)
• New (GConf) option to disable XDamage extension. See #533613.
• Telepathy tubes: This allows you to share your desktop with an Empathy buddy.
• Various minor fixes.

Vinagre

• New plugin system. Implementing a new protocol is just a matter of writing a plugin.
• Telepathy tubes: This allows you to control your Empathy buddy’s desktop.
• New command line options: –fullscreen and –vnc-scale.
• Screenshot can be saved in various formats.
• Toolbar in fullscreen mode is now centralized.
• Panel applet is now optional. Disable it with –disable-applet.
• New *very basic* SSH plugin. Enable it with –enable-ssh in configure.
• Use GtkBuilder instead of Glade.
• Support for UltraVNC MS-Logon authentication (requires gtk-vnc 0.3.9)
  
• Various minor fixes.

Speaking of vinagre, it’s planned for 2.30 (or 3.0) a new RDP plugin, to access MS Windows machines. I’m waiting for a friend who promissed me to write a gtk+ widget for this (concept similar to gtk-vnc). Yes, Jorge. I’m talking about you

Please, if you can, try it out and report possible regressions, once the code has changed a lot since last stable version.

Ah, because of this, I’ve reached 1000 commits(!!) according with CIA.vc.

Hello, folks.

This is a quick post (written in the airport, while waiting my flight to Gran Canaria) just to tell you that GNOME Brazil one more time rocked at FISL – International Free Software Forum, which took place (again, as every year) in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil.

Thanks to GNOME Foundation, I was able to attend the event, and represent GNOME there, along with many Brazilian GNOMErs. We had a booth and a communitarian event, where I, Vinicius Depizzol, Gustavo (kov) Noronha and Julio talked about the past and the future of the GNOME Desktop, as well about how to contribute with the project.

Some pictures (click for larger size and for the description):

De fisl 2009

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De fisl 2009

Ah, also thanks to the GNOME Foundation I’m right now boarding to Gran Canaria, to GUADEC! This edition is special because it gets together GUADEC and Akademy (KDE) into a single conference. Looking forward to beat KDE guys in the Freefa soccer tournement!

Just a quick post to say that Vino 2.26.2, which will be released next week will have a workaround for a bug that some proprietary video drivers have with the XDamage extension of X.Org.

If you have a nvidia/ati driver and 3D effects enabled and nobody manages to access your desktop over VNC, it’s enough to change the GConf key /desktop/gnome/remote_access/disable_xdamage to TRUE. You can use the gconf-editor program or edit this key directly from the terminal with the command-line program gconftool.

Most video drivers nowadays work correctly with 3D and XDamage extension. Just do the trick above if Vino is not working on your environment.

Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126
GNOME bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533613