September 2011
5 posts
“Why is programming fun? What delights may its practioner expect as his reward?
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– Fred Books - The Mythical Man-Month
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Notes on writing gnome-shell extensions
Musings of an OS plumber is an
excelent source of information on the basics of gnome-shell extensions
development (probably the best, so far), but it is already a bit outdated
because of some changes in the 3.2 gnome-shell API. These notes are an attempt
to complement the information already available.
extension.js must have at least three functions:
a) init(), which runs when the extension is...
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vim-pad →
A little project I forgot to mention before: vim-pad, a quick notetaking plugin for vim, à la Notational Velocity. I was prompted to work a bit in it this weekend by onethingwell’s mention of deft.
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mailnot: a gmail notifier for gnome-shell
A dead simple approach for a biff tool, made with gnome-shell in mind.
wget https://raw.github.com/fmoralesc/utils/master/mailnot ~/bin/mailnot
chmod +x ~/bin/mailnot
mailnot
mailnot requires python-feedparser, python-gnomekeyring and pynotify (besides gobject, gtk and gconf, but those should be installed anyway), and assumes the user has a preferred mail client. It can handle several accounts...