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So much for that idea

Wherein Phil learns that there really was an easy fix.

2005 10 26 philipl The wonderful world of GNOME... Comments (1)

Caleb will love me for this…

Caleb, I’m sure you’re less than enthused about seeing that bug now mentioned a third time by me, but what can you expect? :-)

2005 10 26 philipl The wonderful world of GNOME... Comments (0)

Packaging up a Virtual Machine

Packaging up a virtual machine is trivial to the first approximation; just tar up the directory.

2005 10 25 philipl Comments (0)

Workstation 5 on SuSE 10. *sigh*

Workstation 5.0’s kernel module source won’t compile working modules on SuSE 10. Workstation 5.5 works great but our website is letting us down.

2005 10 20 philipl Comments (5)

VMs for everyone!

Today we announced the VMware Player – it’s free, so go check it out!

2005 10 19 philipl Comments (32)

Heads up about librsvg 2.12.x

Current librsvg 2.12.x releases have a bug that causes them to crash when encountering gaussian blur elements.

2005 09 29 philipl The wonderful world of GNOME... Comments (2)

That’s quite a view you’ve got there

As a happy coincidence, on the same day that GNOME 2.12 is being released, we’ve managed to get everything sorted out over here to push out the initial release of VIEW, VMware’s Incredibly Exciting Widgets; so named by Christian without a hint of irony. Honest. :-)

2005 09 07 philipl Comments (1)

GtkEventBox abuse…

Good news! I’ve now got a satisfactory alternative for controlling the background colour that makes gtk-qt-engine happy, along with a couple of other pathological themes.

2005 08 24 philipl Comments (1)

Which of these things look like all the others…

gnome-settings-daemon has been tamed, but gtk-qt-engine has stepped up to take it’s place…

2005 08 23 philipl Comments (5)

And not all 32s are equal…

Yep, still got time to kill, so I’ll tell a story. This is the story of what it takes to ship a gtk+ 2.4 based application that will run on RedHat Linux 7.2 out of the box.

2005 08 13 philipl Comments (5)