Somebody sent me this funky screenshot of his Windows XP desktop.

After some time I looked at ressurrecting my MicroMV digicam. Looks like I can finally transfer the mpeg2 stream directly to my linux desktop. Yay!

Gotta figure out why it doesn’t do a heck on my powerbook’s fedora.

Sometimes it really makes you wonder how some of your friends manage to escape gravity (approx 4MB divx).

Composited in blender.

Something marvelous has been checked into GIMP today. Mitch “fixed #106920” as he called it. In fact he implemented an API for mapping input events to GIMP actions.

Doesn’t sound much exciting? Well I almost had to wet my pants when I saw some of the GIMP actions you can bind to a controller such as a mousewheel (with optional modifier keys):

• brush opacity
• current brush
• brush attributes such as size, sharpness and rotation
• layer opacity and mode, position in stack and on canvas
• grow/shrink selections
• active font
• FG/BG color’s hue, saturation and value

For a detailed list, look at menus/image-menu.xml.in.

And now combine this with a possibility to bind these to powermate controller events, midi controllers etc. Ok, time to go change undies.

Update: As I write this, Sven is hacking on modules/controller_linux_input.c to make his ShuttlePro work. In a few moments I will have my powermate controller do cool stuff! HOHOHO!

One thing I wasn’t able to report due to my blog being broken was the cool weekend I had with the GIMP guys. Sven, Mitch & Simon came over for a bit of barbecue GIMP hacking action.

It was great fun and we managed to get quite some stuff done. We now have nice RGBA tool cursors (if your gtk was compiled against xcursor headers, which our xd-unstable gtk2 apparently hasn’t). Also stay tuned for faster gradients.

Also in HEAD, Philip Lafleur started implementing live previews for the transform tools. It’s pretty snappy as is, with some hard edges of course. Great to see this stuff happening though.

While driving the car into our yard, Iva noticed a mushroom next to the hedge. There turned out to be quite a lot of them. No need to to go to the woods anymore .

With help from Dave I managed to move my blog to pyblosxom after primates lost the MT installation.

Still have to play with the stylesheet a bit.

Looks like the generic mimetype icons (gnome-mimetype-video, gnome-mimetype-text, etc.) in Gorilla don’t override the specific ones in hicolor. Already looking forward to all the symlinking in automake.

Another smart filenaming (yes it was ME!):

gnome-joystick.svg

Man, yet another smart toy from Apple.

I would like to give Gorilla another facelift. Fix the broken filenames, create the missing panel icons and move the old gtk stock into the proper hierarchy. However the prospect of moving files around in CVS instead of drawing really makes me want to wait for the filenaming spec. Totally not feeling like doing it one more time.

I wish we were using subversion already :/

Working with glade and gdm really makes you appreciate the simplicity and power of CSS.