A few days ago, Claudio wrote about the time Eog spent saving the filename of a recenlty used image into ~/.recently-used.xbel. The reason: ~/.recently-used.xbel was too big. If I remember correctly, the FileChooser used to have a similar issue in the past.
Going down from 5.8 MiB to 1.8 MiB, through deleting all those items whose files does not exists, seems to be a good improvement. I wanted to go a bit …
read moreThumbnails are created by applications and thanks to a proposed draft are shared among desktops. But, it doesnot mean that every thumbnail stored in your home directory is useful for the purpose they were created. Some of them points to a file that doesnot exists anymore, some of them are broken images, and some of them were created by applications that doesnot respect the proposed draft.
Basically there are two _size_ of thumbnails: normal (128x128 pixels …
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After the success of “Code Monkey at Work”, where Rupert was the young hero of the movie, Rupert was invited to participate in a cameo of “Aardvark'd: 12 weeks with geeks”, a documentary film (idea of Joel Spolsky) of the whole process to build copilot (the simplest way to use VNC trhought a reflector; full of features with a simple user interface, and a better name).
I just received my copy on Saturday 10 and I …
read moreFinally I am going to Brazil to the second version of Fórum do GNOME that will take place at Curitiba, Brazil. I am looking forward to meet Lucas Rocha, Sandino Flores, Tim Ney, Marcos Mazoni, Izabel Valverde and the local community. (Thanks to Celepar for funding my ticket to get there).
Also, I will be speaking about GNOME at "I Seminário de Software Livre", at Univeridade Metodista de São Paulo on Tuesday 29.
Sadly, I will …
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