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Hi, folks. For those of you who don’t know: Vino is the VNC server that comes with GNOME. Its purpose is to allow you sharing the computer with other people, often to get remote support. You can enable it by clicking System->Preferences->Remote Desktop.

Currently, this applet shows the local name/IP of the machine and allows you to send this address to someone by email.

Wondering how to make things easier to people who wants support, I’ve made some changes in this dialog, by offering a button to let the user to know his real IP address as well his reachability.

Screenshots of this new feature:

Picture 1: Now we show a message ‘service is not running’ when the server is off.

Picture 2: Once the service is started, we show the local IP/name. There’s a button to get the real IP from the internet.

Picture 3: Clicking on the button brings up the real IP and the status of this machine: In this scenario, the machine is behind a firewall and it’s not reachable. We supply a few information about this.

Picture 4: In this scenario, the machine is open to the internet, and can be reached.

The code is still in my machine, I would like to hear comments, suggestions about this feature. Currently I’m using an external webservice to get the real IP and to test the reachability.

Of course, this change doesn’t fix all our problems, but I believe it helps the user, by giving him more information about his conectivity. Another feature I would love to implement is reverse connection, which will help even more the users behind a firewall.

So, go comment please!

Hi, folks!

It’s time to another GNOME Forum here in Brazil! In its fifth edition, this time it will take place together with Latinoware, the Latino American Free Software Conference.

The city, Foz do Iguaçu, which hosts Latinoware, is a strong touristic place here in Brazil, due to its wonderfull falls. This is a great oportunity to have fun with GNOME, again!

The Forum is hosting also the first GNOME Latin American Tour! So we will have some cool GNOME people, like Diego, Germán and Pedro.

I am sure the Forum will rock! I will post pictures during and after the event. It will happen in 30, 31 October and 1st November.

See you!

Couldn’t wait until Sunday (Which we celebrate the children day here in Brazil)

Thanks to Ken VanDine, you can try the fresh new GNOME in an easy and painless way: through a virtual machine!

There are images for VMWare and QEMU/KVM/Parallels. All you have to do is to download the image and run it in a virtualized environment.

To download the image: http://torrent.gnome.org/
If you find out some bug and want to see it fixed in 2.24.1, let us know.

Affter that, if you don’t like or don’t want to install GNOME by compiling it, just wait for a distribution near to you. Ubuntu Intrepid, for example, will be released in the end of October, featuring GNOME 2.24.

Celebrating one more GNOME release!

After 6 months of hard work from developers, translators, testers, the 2.24 version was released – exactly in time – today, September 24th. This version is full of improvements and new applications. See on Release Notes full news of this release.

It is going to happen today and tomorrow, here in Maceió, Alagoas, the 3º Debian Festival, an event which already belongs to our Free Software annual calendar.

This year I will be talking about the GNOME project, spreading it and inviting all people to become active in the community.

More information in the event website (pt_BR): http://enec.org.br/debianfestival

I will put some photos later here!

See ya!

Hello! Great news:

Soon, from 20 to 24th August, I will be in Fortaleza, Brazil attending Congresso Estadual de Software Livre (CESoL-CE). In English: Free Software Regional Conference.

I will give two talks, one about GNOME and the other one about Ubuntu, where I will be showing how the communities work, and how things work on both projects.

Besides that I will be giving a workshop about development on GNOME: modules structures, bugzilla, svn, patches, glades and so on. All this in 4 hours and each person will have a computer to practice on-line!

Ah, there will be even a free software development festival, where we will have an area full of computers and volunteers can join us and work on GNOME bugs, as well as some other free software projects, like Debian. There will be – for each project – a mentor available to guide everybody interested in contributing.

I’m sure it will be a great event, thanks to the hard work of organizers! I’ll post photos and news as soon as I get them!

See you!

Unfortunately, I haven’t had the time to blog about GUADEC and Istanbul as I would like. Here is a brief random list on what has been happening so far:

• GUADEC is really an amazing event. Lots of hackers around, all fall in love with GNOME!
• Istanbul is a great, really great place to visit. I wish I had one more week here. Someday I’ll bring my wife here.
• My hotel is located at the best place of the city. I can go to the museums and mosques by walking. Great!
• Bosphorus: Great just like I’ve heard about. We had a boat trip yesterday, with all GUADEC people. Just amazing. Isbanbul is even more beautiful at night!
• There are too many smokers on the city.
• There are too many cats on the city.
• I look like a turkish. Many people said me that.
• Our soccer team (black one) was the champion on the FreeFA soccer tournement. With a brazilian forward, what else would you expect?
• I have taken too many photos, but didn’t manage to organize them. They’re here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwendell/
• I hope to write again, that time with photos. See you!

Hi, folks.

Some news in Vinagre since 0.5 version (GNOME 2.22):

• Basic support for scaling, based on OpenGL
• Side panel shows both bookmarked connections and avahi-discovered machines
• New command-line option to debug the connection: –gtk-vnc-debug
• View-only mode
• Send CTRL-ALT-DEL option
• Unique instance behaviour with a command-line option (–new-window) to open another window
• Don’t show tabs if there is only one connection active
• Support for host::port command-line syntax
• Connect dialog now remembers previous host/port address
• New toolbar in fullscreen mode. It appears when you move the mouse to the top of the window
• Panel applet, with quick access to bookmarks and avahi-discovered machines
• Better compatibility with more VNC servers

Latest Vinagre is 2.23.4 and can be found at GNOME FTP servers.

In other news, I’m ready to GUADEC (or almost ready, still have to draw my presentation).
I’m looking forward to meet all GNOME crowd.

Next Friday I’m going to São Paulo, just for the weekend, enjoy some cold days, thanks to GOL, an Brazilian airline which is offering tickets for about US$ 5.00 (JFYI, Maceió, where I live-São Paulo is distance of 2500Km)!!! Unbelievable!

Dear lazyweb,

Is there any icon for representing ‘read-only’ stuff, that indicates that the thing you are dealing with is read only?

In my case, I’m talking about VNC view-only connections. But the icon could be useful for text editors, for instance.