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Improving input method support in GTK+-based apps

When a bug report gets long with many comments, it gets more difficult for someone to get the full picture of what is going on. I’ll attempt to summarise here what’s being said in Bug 321896, Synch gdkkeysyms.h / gtkimcontextsimple.c with X.org 6.9/7.0. GTK+-based applications use by default the GTK+ Input Method in order to …

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GUADEC Day #2

(see http://www.guadec.org/schedule/warmup) At the first presentation, Quim Gil talked about GNOME marketing, what have been done, what is the goal of marketing. He showed a focused mind on important marketing tasks; it is easy to get carried away and not be effective, a mistake that happens in several projects. The next session was by Tomas …

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Multimedia support in Ubuntu Linux 6.06

With Ubuntu Linux 6.06, it is much clear how to install those codecs in order to get broad multimedia file support. In Ubuntu, the multimedia infrastructure is handled by GStreamer; you install GStreamer plugins and any application that uses GStreamer can immediately benefit from the new codec support. A typical installation of Ubuntu will bring …

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Ελληνικά στην αλληλογραφία, μέρος πρώτο

Πρέπει να λαμβάνετε γράμματα / ανακοινώσεις από μερικούς δικτυακούς τόπους όπου η κωδικοποίηση για τα ελληνικά δεν είναι σωστή, είτε στο σώμα του μηνύματος, είτε στην κεφαλίδα (From: “Ανακοίνωση” ). Συγκεκριμένα, δεν καθορίζεται η κωδικοποίηση οπότε είναι θέμα εξ ορισμού ρυθμίσεων του παραλήπτη για να δει το αποτέλεσμα. Ας δούμε πως μπορείτε μέσα από μια …

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