News:

• Feb 21 2000: The panel hacking spree continued until sunday when I slacked off and did hardly anything except watch tv. Today I was in a translating mood and mostly finished translation of gnome-core little bit of gnome-applets, started glade and completely translated eog. Did some work on the cln branch of dr genius as well.

• Feb 18 2000: Today I thought I'll work a bit on the panel then perhaps do some dr genius coding and perhaps watch some tv or go out. However it's 5am the 19th and I was hacking on the panel until now. Did a bunch of stuff, such as the menus don't take up gobs of memory anymore and should also load faster. We're really close to the 1.2 release now.

• Feb 12 2000: Today I didn't really do much in fact. Hacked a little bit on the panel, gsearchtool, fish, and genius. I'm converting the genius engine to CLN. That is a C++ library for numbers and I have to use C++ to compile parts of genius now because of it. C++ is really really really anal about some things such as void *, and it disallowes a lot of stuff that is used in genius to achieve OOness of the engine. I now really know why I don't like C++. But oh well, mpwrap sucks and I don't have the time to make it not suck. So I have to use something which works well. Also it seems CLN has it's own set of braindamages such as I can't figure out how to convert to native types. I'm also really not looking forward to figuring out the memory allocation stuff. Because of the way genius works there will be some issues with constructors/destructors being run, which will probably really mess up the CLN GC. C++ is really thick in this regard and CLN unfortunately uses that thickness to the fullest extent which is pretty bad.

• Feb 6 2000: Heh, I was still dating everything in 1999. Anyway we have new drgenius release at the Dr Genius web page. That is done with m4 and I'm quite impressed at how nice that makes webpages, I may just start using that instead of ssi on this site. Anyway, gob didn't get much progress, but both genius and panel got some work on them. School started but it doesn't seem to demanding yet anyway. Though I got 3 homeworks for tuesday and I haven't started yet, but then again, I still got 1 more day. It's nice to have upper level classes again instead of finishing up the damn requisites. It sometimes feels like highschool. I think with the amount of math this semester I'll do more work on genius. I'm definately motivated not to have to use proprietory shit to get homework done and would much rather have free software to do it.

• Jan 28 2000: Not much happening here. Doing some gnome-libs/gnome-core cleanups lately, and we have a freeze for the 1.2 panel now, which is sort of cool, I guess we will have a real 1.2 pretty soon. We still have to solve a couple of issues and make sure it's all stable. But it's turning out fairly stable in fact. Some help-browser issues have been fixed, but we're still not sure if we fixed "the big one". Anyway on GOB front I've done some minor things and plan some more minor things, and I'm thinking to make it 1.0 soon (after we get some .defs and gtk-doc support and some other small improvements). On Dr.Genius front I've been hacking on and off on the new gel interface but I've been fairly lazy about it, perhaps with the new semester coming I'll have more incentive to work on it as I'll have a couple math classes again.

• Jan 12 2000: Heh, long time without an entry. Well a bunch of stuff changed. Gob has been updated a bunch, started working on the new genius interface, worked a bit on the panel so that we can freeze. I've done absolutely nothing on gnop but this will change. I'm currently hacking the gnome-ditem (the 2.0 version of dentry which is just WAAAAAY saner), the original ditem implementation is pretty lacking.

• Dec 13 1999: Again found other bad things in gob so I had to go fix them up, in process of which I yet again slightly changed the way gob works with respect to privates, but only slightly. It now puts the private structure inside a separate private include file. This makes the private members easier to handle.

• Dec 12 1999: Woke up late and haven't done that much during the morning. In the evening I started working on a preferences utility library and realized I wanted more from gob, so I worked a bunch on gob, then had to update dr-genius to work with the newest changes and then release new gob. Anyway, the new thing is that private data members are not accessible from outside. They're defined in a private structure that is defined INSIDE the .c file. Advantage is that you can add as many new private members without breaking binary compat, and that the members are really private. Disadvantage is that the change itself breaks compatiblity, now to access a private member foo, instead of object->foo you will need to do object->_priv->foo

• Dec 4 1999: Well still quite lazy and not doing much. I've decided to rework the genius engine into a library and use threads. This will make Dr.Genius much more flexible. We've also decided that the panel will get completely rewritten after gnome2.0 comes out. The code name is vertigo, but we won't start on that for a while, untill the stuff that we want to use in it is at least usable. In the evening I went to a christmas party of my dad's company and went ice skating. I haven't been ice skating since I was 8 or so I guess.

• Nov 30 1999: Hmmm, found out clahey is working on an equation editor, so I stopped, at least temporairly, working on GEE. I'm getting more serious about genius as there is potentially a real use of Dr.Genius in education and thus in promotion of free software ideology to the kids. Get'em while they're young I guess. Other then that the finals are getting near and I'm getting sick of school.

• Nov 17 1999: Sort of a weird day, I dunno. Today it's 10 years since the revolution in czech, but I doubt that has anything with the weirdness. Anyway, in the evening I climbed onto the roof of our house to see the Leonid meteorites, I saw about 5 or so and hopefully got some of them on film. Other then that I started a new project called GEE (GNOME Equation Editor). That will be an equation editor bonobo component and standalone program. Something we've been missing in GNOME. It'll also be used in Dr.Genius for entering or displaying of results and will be especially usefull when we have symbolic algebra. And of course it uses GOB. (I released a new version of GOB yesterday which actually solves the function aliases in a much cooler way without the preprocessor)

• Nov 15 1999: I started working on saving code in Dr.Genius and then started redoing the GEL editor mdi child in gob, then found bugs in gob, so I fixed those, then went on to add some more gob features, then finished the saving code, then fixed/added features to gob again, and suddenly it's 2 am. So I made a new gob release as I fixed fairly nasty bugs and made some stuff much saner.

• Nov 13 1999: I'm getting lazier and lazier with this, anyway, I just released new GOB, this time it can be embeded in other projects and it doesn't require popt anymore and has a bunch of fixes. Otherwise, since the last entry a bunch of stuff has happened, for example I'm working on ganimal which is a virtual pet kind of thing.

• Oct 23 1999: Saw fight club yesterday and it's not a bad movie and I don't know what all the fuss was about since I saw much more violent movies where the violence was completely sensless. in fight club the violence that there is, IS a neccesary part of the story. Anyway On other news, I'm working on dr-genius a bit more and Jacob made new shiny development tarballs of 1.1 panel and applets.

• Oct 20 1999: today was mostly school again, but I did do a bunch of panel stuff, including caching of the icons so that we don't push the image data to the sever all the time, this makes redrawing much faster, get ready for a tarball of 1.1 gnome-core stuff, as we are ready to make a developer release for those more advanterous, though I find the development panel quite stable.

• Oct 19 1999: Not that much new stuff, did a bit of genius hacking, bit of adding stuff to my gnome tutorial, merging some 1-0 stuff to head panel, and being generally lazy

• Oct 14 1999: A bunch of new stuff happened, especially with the development panel, now it does anti aliased icons. Otherwise October Gnome release is out (it's a 1.0 release but with all the bugs fixed and a couple small new features)

• Oct 6 1999: I'm now working on making the panel global config be a crapplet for the control center. It's going slower then I thought, because I'm lazy

• Oct 4 1999: I actually added the motd mode yesterday after writing the news bit. Anyway, today was mostly school, so all I did was to make a couple more panel menus tear off. The next thing to hack with the panel is to put the global panel properties into the gnome control-center

• Oct 3 1999: In the past few days I finished the status dock and made a nice new startup hints dialog. It can also display a fortune if you don't care about hints. I'll prolly add a motd mode for it so that sysadmins can use that. See a screenshot

• Sep 29 1999: I'm now working on the status dock of the panel which is a win95/kde like docking thing (the small icons in the tray). It's sort of implemented but it crashes when the panel quits and other fun stuff like that. I hope to get that working right soon so I can also do some genius work. As well as do more support of the tearoff menus in the panel which I want to be able to save with the session so you could keep them permanently on your desktop

• Sep 27 1999: My first class was canceled so I started hacking on some genius stuff, then finished it when I got home, so now I have mixed fraction format support (which is really cool for calculating with stock prices:) and it can now output integers in different bases.

• Sep 26 1999: Yesterday we went fishing on an overnight sport fishing trip on the ocean. I didn't like it as much as there is too much action there, I'd prefer to not catch anything but have a tranquil experience:). Anyway, on genius I pretty much have the engine working with the exception of modular arithmetic which I'm still not sure how to get working with the precalculation thing. Also I've got some preliminary work to get a console up and running in the new Dr.Genius MDI. Also I started working on a status applet for the panel, which will be somewhat like the KDE docking thing or win95's docking. I also want to add support for KDE docking so that we can get those apps working right under GNOME. And the other way around, though KDE seems to be using pure X to do this, while I wanna use a corba approach (more heavy weight, but the corba libs are loaded already and it's just more flexible, for example it makes it simpler to have it work with no panel, or with a panel that restarts itself).

• Sep 23 1999: Work on the engine was going far slower then I expected because I wasted a couple of days doing usless stuff. But it's almost ready, just need to hunt down a couple of bugs with matrix operations, implement modular arithmetic, internal function calling and do an overall cleanup and it should be finished. Otherwise things sort of suck. Today I was feeling like crap because of a cold and I stayed home, but I prolly would have done more on genius had I gone to school as like this I woke up at 12. But anyway I did do a whole bunch of work on the engine today.

• Sep 15 1999: They actually want me to do stuff for school so I have less time, but I'm really getting psyched about the new design for genius's engine. It's turning out much nicer and cleaner then I expected, though the work is still going slowly, but it seems it will be much less bug prone, smaller and maybe even faster (though could be slower for all I know at this point). It seems that keeping state around with the recursive engine was much uglier then with an iterative one. I guess I could be done with it, or at least get it working this weekend. Then onto probably changing the insides to use CLN instead of mpwrap.c as that will give us more functionality with probably a slight performance/memory penalty. The only drawback is that CLN is C++ so I will have to somehow get it integrated cleanly.

• Sep 14 1999: wow, lots of things have changed since last entry, someone else is working on another achtung, so I abandoned mine, genius merged with Dr.Geo to create Dr.Genius (well the merge is not yet actually implemented in code:) and I'm rewriting the execution engine of genius to be much better.

• August 30 1999: first day of school, and the first day since I came back on which I did absolutely nothing useful, nada, zilch, not a thing. but have no fear, I don't plan on that happening too often :) I also seem to be falling behind in a lot of mailing lists, I think I'll start ingoring a lot more stuff and just work on achtung and panel and stuff.

• August 18 1999: just got back yesterday, wow I missed out a lot in the meantime actually. I committed all my work I did while off the net, but today I didn't actually do much, except get a cool new panel UI idea, release gob 0.0.3, and work a tiny bit on achtung. gob makes designing while writing so much easier then writing GTK+ objects by hand.

• August 6 1999: maybe the last day on the net before I get back to the US on the 17th, so I released 0.0.2 of GOB

• August 2 1999: lately I haven't done much, but there is a new release of the math hacks if you're into that sort of stuff (not much new there anyway)

• July 27 1999: Got back from vacation in croatia, it was nice but lacked internet access and computers in general. Therefore, it could have been better. Otherwise I put in a bit of work on genius, (I'm again getting some megalomaniacal ideas about genius) Plus I plan to work on achtung again as well (that is, rewrite the thing once more:) and since jacob is working on the panel I'll put that on a back burner a bit.

• July 15 1999: I'll be gone for a week without email or computers. If I'll survive, I'll be back next week ... I'll catch up on my reading I guess.

• July 14 1999: For the past few weeks I did a couple of things, one of them is gob, which creates GTK+ objects. Other then that I haven't done as much, it'll get better when I get back to SD. Plus I'm planning another trip around europe and stuff like that so I won't have that much time.

• July 1 1999: Just returned from Amsterodam and Paris where I was the last week (my brain is still recovering from all that weed in Amsterodam :) So I haven't done absolutely anything. But I got a couple of new ideas about new things to do:). I've also made a release of genius just before I went but haven't had the time to announce it.

• June 17 1999: If you are wondering why I've committed so little code lately, it's because I got a bunch of things in a half brewed state and I don't have that much time. Coming attractions are: better moving code for the panel, anti-aliased icons and stuff using the canvas, plugin support for genius, and a sort of cool visual programming widget which I needed for work, but I'll GPL it. Plus there is a cool new panel widget which will simplify everything and add some new panel types which was not written by me, but it's still quite cool:)

• June 11 1999: Prague ... fun.... though very irregular net access, I hope I survive :) Also not enough time for coding, so I finally figured out why people that have a life don't code :) ... Though I doubt I will stay in this state too long

• June 6 1999: tommorrow I'm leaving to Prague. I also didn't really get much done on anything as I've been quite busy with other things then gnome. Hmm, ... two months away from my alpha and hacking on the tiny laptop keyboard. My wrists are gonna hate me. ALSO, I'll be reading much less mail and replying much less (not that I've ever read and replied to everything:)

• May 31 1999: lots of fun stuff going on, I've been going out more then usual lately, but strangely I've also been doing work. During the time that I had left I worked on the panel a bit, doing the size stuff and other things. Now that raster has left gnome for good, I inherited gnome-pager maintainership so I feel a bit more compelled to make it work (or rewrite the thing which might be the only humane thing to do to it) ... also I've updated the APPLET_WRITING tutorial

• May 26 1999: I'm back from LE (for a couple of days already, but I've been to lazy to update this page:) ... The pictures are here. Released version 0.4.3 of genius. It's in its usual place.

• May 12 1999: went to work, then went home and spent the next couple of hours writing an essay for an english class. which took most of the evening, then I did some slight genius hacking, email reading, flaming one looser who just plain deserved flaming

• May 11 1999: I put up new version of the math hacks to /pub/math ... the only change is an added proggie to brute force test the birthday problem. Today I also did a little bit of optimizing genius and fixing up the interactive mode again, but now it's much better. I think the last release is "good enough" for a short while, I hope for at least a week:) ... in other news, somebody made a vim mode file for .gel files, this is great news, especially if you want to do some gel coding

• May 10 1999: Today I was gonna do my slides for LE, but didn't get to it. I did release 0.4.2 only to realize that it didn't reduce fractions always (not a critical bug, but annoying one:) ... I also profiled it a bit and I think I have an idea on how to make it all a bit faster

• May 9 1999: woke up and read a book for homework ... not much fun ... then I hacked on genius a tiny bit and read my mail and stuff ... all in all, today was not a very productive day ... did I mention I hate homework?

• May 8 1999: homework ... homework ... homework ... and a bit of genius hacking as well

• May 7 1999: I think I'm catching some sort of a cold or something ... I'm extremely tired ... so I didn't do much today ... went to work ... went home did some hacking ... and created a mailing list for genius (details on the genius home page)

• May 6 1999: added a genius home page got a couple of genius bug reports and fixed those bugs, but otherwise did not do much stuff ... basically I scrapped what I did yesterday about the independent execution stuff ... as it can't be done without scrapping the zero time identifier lookup which I don't want to do ... so I won't do that ... so if genius is in a deeper context you will only be able to work in that context ... not really big deal anyway ... a lot of the stuff can be solved cleanly without this and I can keep my speed improvements

• May 5 1999: last two days I did absolutely no work on genius, so instead I released 0.4.1 with no new changes since may 3rd ... I probably won't get much hacking time until the weekend ... and I already have some TODO's lined up for genius

• May 3 1999: today I did mostly schoolwork (needed to read a book for tomorrow) ... though I did manage to fix the transparency hack of zvt and add a few options to genius as well ...

• May 2 1999: today I actually went to work and actually did work, but then I went back to hacking genius (genius is ADDICTIVE!) ... anyway ... I made a lot of improvements to the ui ... and the gui version now looks very spiffy and doesn't fork any new processes ... take a look at it here

• May 1 1999: today was a kind of lazy day, though I did revamp the gui version of genius ... I'm getting all sorts of crazy megallomaniacal ideas about genius lately

• April 30 1999: as you could expect I did some work on genius today (yay!) ... although I spent a large part of the day doing stuff for school ... however I did manage to write statistical functions (which I needed for homework) ... and then later at night I did matrix powers with integers and division and such crap ... then I released the whole thing as 0.4.0 ... so get it and then kick your head in because it's not 100% compatible with 0.3.x :)

• April 29 1999: Today in the computer languages class I got extremely bored as usual, but since I was sort of on the topic of computer languages, I got several ideas about genius, so I left the class about half an hour into the lecture, ditched the next class and implemented them ... then I finished what I started later in the evening ... basically I'm slightly changing the syntax to be more esthetically pleasing and to look and act more like symbolic math, for example to define a function x^2+5, now you type

  function f(x) = x^2+5
  

  which is just a whole lot nicer, also I'm passing functions by value and not by reference which probably doesn't make it much slower (and I can always implement copy-on-write for function bodies as well), but it makes the whole thing look and act more consistent ...

• April 25 1999: I don't know what's wrong with me ... I'm supposed to be doing homework, yet I spend the past about 4 hours finishing up complex number support in genius ... on the plus side, that task is hopefully done ... including the fact that mp wrappers are now complete and functioning ... (and hopefully working correctly too:) ...

• April 24 1999: yesterday I bought a cd burner cause I lost my rh5.2 cd (sounds like a dumb reason, but it was more of a last straw) ... after finding the box I wanted in fry's, I discovered it's the last one ... and outside I found out I really only bought the drive ... the manual and drivers (windows I'd guess) were missing ... oh well ... who needs em ... the thing works ... except I don't want it in my puter as my dad's puter is mostly idle and can do burning when I'm doing something ... otherwise ... not much new ... did a bit of genius hacking and released 0.3.2

• April 22 1999: all this "we need to be stable crap" is making me go nuts. it's much more fun to just hop around adding random cool features without actually really testing them and changing interfaces whenever one wants to .... I pine for the days of gnome 0.13 when if I needed something from gnome-libs ... I could just go in and smack in a new function or change an existing one without any care for real users ... I wish there were no lusers ... if there were only hackers ... the world would be a far better place .... and there would be no need for stable versions ... we could all just hop around hacking on random parts of code making it do cool things ... (who cares if they are buggy and make you update/recompile a zillion different componets ...:) ... anyway ... I did a little bit of work on genius between school work and the panel ... so I might just release a 0.3.2 soon as there is quite a lot of new useful functions piling up ... not without their own problems of course ... and some of the most important matrix functionality is still missing (determinants, powers, inverses) ... and of course there are many holes in the complex number stuff as well

• April 16 1999: something has happened to me and I can't stop hacking genius, I've stopped reading most of my mail, checking slashdot all the time, hanging on irc, working, doing homework, watching tv ... The upside is that genius has finally beat bc on pure execution speed today, in a test which doesn't involve gmp beating the crap out of bc's integer handeling ... basically an empty while loop doing a LOT of iterations is about 10% faster on genius now ... That's what I was doing most of today, ... though matrix operations got sped up more then an order of magnitude because I now use a copy-on-write algorithm to avoid copying the matrixes all the time ... and I implemented getting regions from matrixes instead of just rows,columns and elements ... today is a time for celebration as I have finally succeeded in making something better/faster then bc! ... which was the original goal ... and of course genius does quite a lot more then bc ... I can even stop using matlab now

• April 15 1999: killed I hope all the genius memory leaks and released version 0.3.1 which should be a lot more stable and correct then 0.3.0 I guess

• April 13 1999: tonight's homework session turned out to not be too kind to actual homework. I did one problem and realized I don't want to do gaussian elimination by hand, so I had to code it into genius, and then I found out several other shortcomming with the language that had to be fixed ... so I did ... and it's 4:30am and I haven't yet gotten back to the homework .... whoops ... not to mention that I spent the afternoon putting in a bit of polynomial support under the noble cause of that being usefull in the homework ... :)

• April 12 1999: hmmm ... I'm slacking off with these entries .... today and for the past few days I've been hacking a lot on genius and released 0.3.0 today with a mostly working matrix support and a lot of fixes and new functions and operators and stuff

• April 1 1999: I wanted to do some april fools thing, but finally didn't think of anything original enough ... anyway ... for the last two days I've done a bit of work on genius ... and now I guess it's time to get back to hacking achtung ... this hasn't turned out to be an extremely exciting spring break, as I haven't gone anywhere ... oh well maybe it'll be better next year ...

• March 28 1999: I'm actually starting to make a little progress on achtung ... The temporal editor is going to be a thougher cookie then I thought ... good thing that the canvas is so damn easy to use :) ... though I haven't spent much time on it as I've been doing such things as ... <gasp> ... "REAL WORK" ... (as strange as it may sound)

• March 26 1999: spent today working and then reading more SMIL stuff ... and thinking about how to actually do this stuff ... I've started wrapping SMIL into gtk objects and when I have sufficent parts wrapped to start a minimial editor I'll start with that ... at first I need a temporal and layout editor ... hmmm this is gonna be fun ... The best thing about SMIL is that it can be played outside of Achtung with no problems ... you can embed it in a webpage or run it in some other SMIL player ... (maybe even powerpoint :)

• March 25 1999: It's probably because of spring break that I feel much more positive ... also I've read the SMIL spec and looked at some more SMIL docs ... and SMIL ROCKS! ... I'm gonna go make Achtung and editor for arbitrary SMIL files, which will make it very very cool ... also I've decided to leave vector editting to programs that will actually know what they're doing ... and Achtung will be pure SMIL1.0 (with maybe few aditions which will be using the standard way of extending smil) ... this will make Achtung totally unlike Powerpoint, but acthung will be WAAAAY cooler

• March 24 1999: I dunno if it's the bombing of serbia or what, but I strangly feel less negative today ... I didn't do anything gnome related today, but while doing homework I did a somewhat cool program to calculate the chromatic polynomial/number of a graph ... also I finally actually used genius in it's full extent for doing actual work ... not related to programming genius (of course it needed a few tweaks, and I'll make a new release of it soon) ... for the math hacks, go to /pub/math ...

• March 23 1999: today sucked ... yesterday mostly sucked except for the evening which I spent in a bar so it wasn't that bad ... today however sucked ... the day before yesterday sucked ... anyway ... school sucks ... I didn't do any real coding and I'm pissed as hell ...

• March 21 1999: did nothing this weekend, I hate that, this almost nothing the whole week in fact. I hate homework ... I got a new laptop and sold my old one. installed rh5.9 and tinkered with it a bit instead of doing something really productive ... yesterday I went to the movies ... and the movie sucked ... if you feel like telling me that I'm being too negative, screw you too ...

• March 12 1999: wow, I'm saving bandwidth again ... anyway, in the past month basically GNOME 1.0 has been released I went to LWCE and gave a tutorial on programming for gnome there ... (look at pictures from the expo here)

• February 18 1999: again worked on other things ... but released genius 0.2.1 with the improvements I'm progressively making .... I'm bound to have something that's useful within the next 10 years ... anyway ...

• February 17 1999: Didn't do all that much, I'm mostly in "fix bugs" mode or in "get pissed and hack on genius" mode ... but most of the time lately I'm in "work or do homework" mode ... homework sucks ...

• February 13 1999: yesterday zinc stopped working, today morning (or more precisely noon) I went to a+net and figured out someone turned off our server by mistake .... damn there goes our uptime (not to mention the clock got confused and the server thought for a while it was still last year ... then I went to our lug's installfest ... after that I went home ... I finally fixed that "panel crashes when you change to pixmap background" bug ... it was such a dumb bug ...

• February 11 1999: I'm getting lazier and lazier, anyway, school sucks, it takes away time from hacking and watching movies ... on the panel front, it's been mostly bugfixing and stuff though I finished the animation changes, which turned out to be less hackish but maybe a bit more drastic then I originally thought ... today I got fed up after trying to hunt down two panel bugs, that I went and implemented a couple of things in genius ... most notably it's a lot faster and more stable

• February 1 1999: hmm ... I seem to be bandwidth saving again, anyway, in the meantime, school started, and I have once again witnessed bureaucracy in heavy duty action, it's impossible to park at the university, so they build a new science/admin building and take up couple of parking lots for that. Now they tell us that they will increase parking cost so that they can build a new garage in a few years (by which time I'll be gone after having paid for it) ... in the meantime about 30 minutes parking in the morning if your lucky and probably an hour at noon ... anyway ... on the panel front, I haven't done that much as I've been pretty busy ... spyder has a booth at a conference here in san diego and we've been finishing up that software for show ... however I've started on a couple of cleanups including a general cleanup of the animation, which seems to be done but has a couple of bugs to hunt down and I guess if I can do that tomorrow I'll commit that ... it's a larger change but I want it to be out of the way and it will stop people from complaining about the panel being dog slow with animations on gnome-compliant window managers ... not to mention it opens up a whole new area of possibilities with panel geometry in the future, and it finally gets the drawer animation geometry correct

• January 20 1999: wow ... people actually read this page, somebody pointed out that I was using 1998 instead of 1999 for recent entries :) ... ok 3 days till my 21st b-day ... anyway .. otherwise I didn't do ANYTHING today ... nor yesterday the best that I can remember :) ... been pretty busy with work ... (kind of doing two jobs)

• January 18 1999: ok more panel tweaks, today I was more into cleanup and hacking on the gtk default handling ... but the panel is getting cleaned up and streamlined, it's pretty fast with menus already even without having the widgets in ram ... most "problems" with the panel now are usability problems, not real bugs ... (though there is an annoying gtk plug/socket bug which needs to be found)

• January 15 1999: It would see as if I have gone on a quest to reduce bandwidth wasting by not writing news entries... anyway ... not much new anywhere ... wrote a whole bunch of new code into the panel to make menus load faster and other minor fixes (this thing took most of the day) ... otherwise I haven't done much else

• January 7 1999: (Actually it's already 6am on the 8th:) ... anyway the latest new thing in gnome is fixing memory leaks and standardizing menus and menu keybindings. So it's mostly bugfixing time in gnome lately.

• Dec 28 1998: Didn't actually do almost anything today, though I got me palm pilot so I kind of spent a long time playing with that ... then I spent some time checking out how much better my machine has gotten now that I got 320 megs in it (just got it today) ... so basically I spent the day playing with new toys ... then ... I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why menu creation in the panel is so damn memory hungry ... not to mention that redhat menu reading eats up 800k and it would almost seem as if it didn't give it back ... ended up only making minor fixes and not finding anything wrong with the bugger ... went to see a movie ... hmmm ... not a productive day

• Dec 27 1998: Spent more time on the tutorial and I think I'm more then half though a draft of the workbook ... I spent a tiny amount of time fixing memleaks and memory consumption of the gnome-libs ... and I actually went outside today for a change ... I should do that more often ...

• Dec 26 1998: I didn't really do all that much since the last post though I started writing the tutorial for the expo (the workbook at least) ... it's going slowly but it's going so I should be done with that soon and I'll put it up. also I read a few chapters in an excellent book on computability ... which reminds me if someone wants to see some example comp theory code (turing emulator, urm emulator, markov emulator, and a bunch of programs for those ... and including two sed macros for decimal addition and subtraction using only the s t and : commands ... which is quite scary by itself) ... take a look at http://ftp.5z.com/pub/unix/math.tar.gz ... partially written for a class, but mostly I wrote this just because this stuff is so damn cool (proof that I'm a geek) :)

• Dec 23 1998: OK well the last post was overly optimistic, but by now it just about all works right ... I'm now mostly working on usability fixes with the panel, spent today for example changing the redhat menu support I added last week ... and trying to generally have the panel take less ram for operation, I still got a couple of ideas about that that I will do to make memory usage smaller, such as destroying of menus and putting fakes in when the menu wasn't used for some amount of time, this should actually keep the memory requirements of the panel down the most, as the menus are the biggest problem

• Dec 13 1998: miracles do happen ... and as one happened yesterday and today .. the new panel works ... I'm still convinced it's pure luck that it all works ... anyway ... it's in CVS ... now in the HEAD for everyone to see ... go out and multiply ...err ... update gnome-core now ...

• Dec 10 1998: still working on that goad stuff ... actually I don't think it's gonna be all that much work as long as orbit and goad work properly ... I think one full day of coding and it should work ... (or at least compile:)

• Dec 8 1998: I caught a cold or something ... today was a BAAAD day, yesterday was worse .... not to mention I didn't do anything on the panel really ... nor on anything else ... elliot made a nice new idl file for the panel and is adding stuff to goad to make it all possible, the applets are gonna be true blue corba/goad objects ... activation will be taken care of by goad ... and I hope to get it to a freeze by the 15th (I mean at least make the API ok) ... the applet API will change a bit most likely and will allow for shared lib applets ... so that you can make your applets as shared libs and not have them hog the resources too much ... but then if an applet crashes it's sure to take the panel with it ... so there is a payoff ... anyway ... with this new stuff the memory usage by the panel should decrease I guess ... more on all this tomorrow when I hope I'll actually do something (that is if I feel any better)

• Dec 6 1998: hmmm ... the goad mess is still not completely fixed ... it's theoretically all fixed but it just doesn't work too great yet ... single applets work ok .. though when restarting the panel, the applets don't start up properly ... seems to be some sort of a race condition ... the multiapplets crash on the second instantiation that needs to be figured out ... it takes down the panel with it usually

• Dec 2 1998: after coming from school I started hacking on the panel, cleaning up the recent goad mess ... mind you I didn't finish yet ... this will prolly take another day or so to make it work and then on to fix all the small annoying bugs that I collected over the last month or so ... and maybe do some corba cleanup before 1.0 is released ... I figure I should do some work on the panel, now that we're getting towards a 1.0 of gnome itself

• Dec 1 1998: Well today I did absolutely nothing worth mentioning, yesterday I release genius 0.2.0. Today... after coming from work, I started working on homework (due tomorrow of course), unfortunately, I didn't go to class where he explained how to set up timer interrupts on bsvc ... ahh .. who cares .. it's the same as on the ECB system I have a manual from ... WRONG! ... I spent 2 hours before I figured out that on bsvc the status bit is opposite ... weird, but that's the way it is, I think the bsvc people should get a good kick in the head ... maybe I should go to class and get bored to death ... hmmm .. naaaahh ....

• Nov 29 1998: Time flies, it's already been a week since the last entry. hmm ... after a few days of tackling bugs bigger then me, I got waay frustrated and went to finish the genius engine today, it wasn't actually as much work as I thought so it's working completely (probably modulo a few bugs and a couple of things I'll add) ... I'll do a release soon and it will not require gnome any more ... at least not for the command line version ... however I'm fighting with autoconf/automake, I'm too lazy to read docs so I'm just trying to wing it. In panel news, elliot goadized the panel/applets so now they're nicer corba objects, but goad stuff doesn't seem to work for me so I have no applets (I wonder if it's actually working for someone) ...lately things have a tendency not to work on my machine .. anyway it 3:30am and school starts at 9 ... should go to sleep I guess:)

• Nov 21 1998: Woke up too late to go to the installfest so instead I spent most of the day hacking on gnome-libs, fixing minor things here and there ... though there were enough disturbances to make me actually not do too much stuff ... I still can't get gnome-terminal running on my machine and I got very bored debugging it:)

• Nov 18 1998: Hmmm there is a slight crunch for a freeze on gnome-libs, so I will abandon all other projects for a while and help with gnome-libs. Another fun thing is the Qt "We are OSS" fiasco today ... oh well some people still don't get what free software is about ... doesn't change a thing for gnome, there was one or two people that said they will leave gnome, but I have a very hard time remembering what they coded, so it doesn't seem to be a loss anyway

• Nov 15 1998: If anyone was wondering why zinc was down, read this. today I finally got some gnome hacking time again ... and made the new genius stuff compile and evaluate very simple expressions, more debugging is to come, but I guess I can have the new engine ready in about another day of hacking .. (whenever that will come) ... only a couple of things are left to do ... and the language seems to be finalized ... it's not as clean as I wanted it to be and it will probably be a bitch to debug ... but it should be an actually useful mathematical language afterwards ...

• Nov 8 1998: Today was a hacking day ... though I spent the morning (meaning early afternoon for mere mortals) cleaning my car ... and doing other stuff so that my mom wouldn't shout at me any more ... then I went hacking again ... I got load/save implemented in achtung, plus a couple of minor fixes

• Nov 2 1998: returned from Tucson where I was for the weekend, maybe I'll actually start working on something one of these days ...

• Oct 27 1998: didn't have too much time for hacking, but for what I did, see the main page under the transparency hack for zvt for some screenshots of that

• Oct 15 1998: Got a bit of achtung hacking done and posted a screenshot, otherwise today has been a pretty shitty day

• Oct 13 1998: today was a good day for hacking for some reason, first class was a test, but I got a few hours of hack time at school and then home ... got a bit ahead on achtung again .. mostly internal stuff and stuff that doesn't yet show ...

• Oct 9 1998: hmmm well I definitely was lazy. Anyway ... most recent news is that I was pretty sick so I didn't do much, but we're getting the new framework of Achtung up and running ... it can now start up and display random rectangles across the canvas ... I also turned the ftp back on since it seems I'm not getting badly hit anymore ...

• Sep 30 1998: not much changed ... work/school/sleep ... not much time now ... plus I think I caught a cold or something, I don't have fever but I can't concentrate on anything ... so I'm moving even slower on achtungs new object stuff then I thought I would .... btw ... this is slightly old news but I released genius 0.1.1 because the old one had some problems/bugs (read "features") ... you can get it here. notice it's an http connection not an ftp one ... my ftp is down for the moment due to some warez kiddies who discovered incoming I left open by mistake ... and now the site is getting TOO many hits ... I deleted the whole lot and HEY I got 300 megs back on my home partition here ... I'll run the ftp site back on (without incoming of course) in a week or so ... or whenever the warez kiddies go away ...

• Sep 27 1998: haven't been doing much on gnome since I got a lot to do at work. I've been also hacking on achtung more so I put genius on the backburner for a while ... but I made a genius release 0.1 so get that from my site

• Sep 18 1998: spent the afternoon hacking genius ... I'm probably not gonna hack it for all that much longer and I'm gonna go on to other things which seem to be more needed in gnome ... I'm still gonna do a little bit of tweaking and probably get the matrix support in it in some way or another before I put it on the back burner again ...

• Sep 16 1998: hmmm yet another day on which I had to wake up waay too early ... meaning by 8 ... anyway .. worked a bit on the matrix stuff ... also genius now doesn't allocate/deallocate some structs all the time ... it keeps a free list ... also did some measuring and it seems that the recent changes have done some difference ... a recursive factorial function from the bc manpage (which I admit looks better in bc syntax then in genius's) was 10 times faster with genius ... there even more things that can get tweaked though so it will be even better in the future ...

• Sep 13 1998: I was gone for most of the day ... in the evening I worked a bit on genius ... I'm now getting megalomaniacal ideas about stuff that will go into genius ... slightly shifting from the original intents ... I'm trying to build a better bc then bc and have genius have at least some of the power of matlab/octave/... with better syntax of course (I'm probably a bit biased in that department)

• Sep 12 1998: hmm I'm being lazy again:) ... anyway ... I still didn't find that bug, though it seems to be half fixed now (one part really seemed to be orbit) ... the other part is probably gtksocket and I have pinpointed why it doesn't work ... but I have no idea how to fix that, (though owen suggested a workaround which I'll try) ... today I've been working mostly on genius, I've added minor bits of the matrix code, and I've created a good command line version of genius which uses readline

• Sep 9 1998: another schoolday ... I need to start going to sleep earlier then 4am if I want to wake up at 8 ... anyway ... worked a bit more on genius, no luck looking for that panel bug .. etc ... etc ... btw ... genius is now it's own separate module ... I'll work on the user interface now and then release a tarball of it before starting on matrix support

• Sep 8 1998: went to work ... when I got home I spent a few hours looking for that multiapplet bug, I'm getting closer and closer I think ... in the process, I fixed a bunch of other bugs though ... so it wasn't all that wasted time ...

• Sep 7 1998: went out saw a movie, went to work to find my old computer's hard drive corrupted, went home and unsuccessfully hunted for that multiapplet bug again ... now I think I'm at least looking in the right general area ... other then that I did a couple of small cleanups

• Sep 6 1998: spent the day hunting that multiapplet bug, I really really really hate this bug ... I just spent about an hour going through the changes of last 2 weeks with no luck ... it must have gotten in before that ... or it's not in the panel

• Sep 5 1998: what a lazy day ... I didn't do much of anything, I hacked on the panel a bit ... but I'm getting bored with it ... I'll probably start working on genius again (I want to add matrix support and make the UI better and make a command line version)

• Sep 4 1998: woke up early (got only about 3 hours of sleep last nite) ... went to school ... then when I got back I hacked on the panel a bit adding all the missing things and fixing bugs here and there ... it now supports dnd of executables and .desktops and directories onto panels to make launchers/menus out of them ... and the property item in the "menu popup menu" works, so that you don't have to go to gmenu for very simple edits ... left are swallow properties and swallow window destruction detection ... aiming for a usable release soon ...

• Sep 3 1998: dropped my t/th class so I have those two days free ... went to work ... also went and saw "Blade" ... it was kind of cool, but predictable as hell so I didn't like it all that much ... on the panel I did some cleanups and bugfixes, nothing extraordinary, mostly fixing up warnings and adding argument checking to panel-widget

• Sep 1 1998: yesterday all classes were at least partly cool and some of them very cool ... today's class just sucked ... I guess I'll drop it ...

• Aug 30 1998: fixed a few bugs in the panel, went to a movie, and fixed another few bugs in the panel ... hmmm ... see a pattern ... tomorrow school starts .... ugh .... oh well ... life has to suck sometimes I guess:) ... I'm even more "pissed off" today because I keep hitting some weird bug which makes the panel segfault ... I fixed one very bad g_list related bug today ... which solved part of the problems the other part is even weirder, seems like functions get the actual values of their arguments lost during the call ... looks like some stack corruption or something ... I ran it with efence, that just makes the problems pop up more .. but still in very weird places ... hmmm ... I need to find this bugger ...

• Aug 27 1998: ok, found a way to do the whole icon thing, I probably had a brain clog or something but I confused intputonly windows with outputonly windows, so there IS such a thing as a transparent window ... meaning I can leave the current drawing code in there and have xwindow widgets anyhow ... I also made the button-widget be much cooler since I can easily trap enter/leave_notify events so it acts like a real button, etc ...

• Aug 26 1998: found so many snags on the way I want to do things, which makes me want to reconsider it all. What I'm now leaning towards is this: to make alpha channel possible I'm gonna make tiles mandatory, tiles will be a square shape and alpha channel drawing will be done onto them ... the widgets WILL have it's X window and a LOT of code won't have to be there ... the price to pay is that there won't be any icons drawn directly onto the panel ... but I guess we'll all have to survive that ... anyway, for a picture of how it all looks with tiles look at this. it's in cvs, but a lot of things don't work like tooltips or autoraise on drawer buttons (those are 2 of the reasons I might have to switch to the tile only scheme)

• Aug 25 1998: finally got something that's usable with the new icon stuff right now it's only for the launchers, but menus and drawers should be trivial now, also tile support will make it in soon (the worst part will be creating the config dialog:) ... so the current "mess" is in cvs, it's no more unstable then what WAS in the cvs, so I figure it was time to commit ...

• Aug 23 1998: expo is finally over ... added themes to fish, since that was the only thing I could really work on at the booth (with that many interruptions that is) ... I'll get to work on the panel again soon ... I want to get it stable soon ...

• Aug 20 1998: finally got through to my mail (I ssh to my server colo'ed at a local isp, then from there I ssh to the firewall on the expo, and from there to my machine ... and I wonder why X redirection don't work through that (hey it's only going through two firewalls 2 ssh sessions and one telnet session)) ... anyway .. I fixed wanda today so that people would stop complaining about the flicker .... also I did a little bit of work on the button widget, it's now a widget that doesn't draw anything, but otherwise it acts just like a widget (which makes it much nicer then my previous scheme, but it made me dump a lot of code ... last few days I've spent coding up stuff that I would immediately delete when I find it wasn't working, I actually need to start implementing the thing instead of testing weird things ....

• Aug 19 1998: Computer expo starts today and my machine is on display at the booth ... so I'm alpha-less ... only had an hour or so gnome time today and I spent most of it getting and compiling all the pieces of gnome and gtk i need for panel work (glib/gtk/imlib/gnome-libs/ORBit/gnome-core) on my notebook ... (which sucks BTW, since the internal keyboard seems to be fighting with the external one)

• Aug 18 1998: compiled a lot of stuff for the expo tomorrow (I didn't get a bunch of stuff compiled due to ctree brokenness oh well) ... then I started hacking on the button widget again ... and made a lot of it work nicely, HOWEVER, the flicker is just NOT GOOD (plus I discovered a minor inefficiency with drawers) ... I guess I'll be slightly redesigning the entire thing ... panel-widget would draw the background and icon on a pixmap and blit it to screen for a completely flicker free panel ... HOWEVER this requires major changes to the panel, so it isn't likely to get done anytime soon ... so there won't be commits for some time in the cvs now ... but the result should be better and faster (though maybe a little bit more memory heavy, but not much more then it already is)

• Aug 17 1998: came home late, but got some work done on the button widget, it will probably take me another few days, because of a couple of new "snags" that I've hit with it, however it should be faster and much nicer then the original gnomepixmap icons (it won't for example have it's own window, it will draw directly onto the panel's window, which should make it faster and should allow alpha channel in the future)

• Aug 16 1998: well besides feeling like shit, I've actually done a little bit of work on the panel, I've started on the button widget for the icons, this will include the support for background tiles for the images and far ... far in the future .. alpha channel support ...

• Aug 15 1998: didn't do too much this week on the panel ... I've been coming home too late ... don't worry, it'll get better:)

• Aug 10 1998: slowly progressing through stuff in my todo list on the panel ... but more importantly I'm definitely starting to hate red tape ... see ... I'm a senior in the university .. YET .. they are putting me on a test hold (meaning I can't register in time) ... since their "record shows I haven't taken the english placement test" ... hmm I've already been placed .. I also passed their dumbass english competency test ... but NOOOO ... now I have to go do even a lower test which should place me into an engish level class I need to take .. hmmm .. but I completed my english requirements about 3 years ago ... well you get the idea ... I'm having fun

• Aug 7 1998: didn't get much done lately, I have been at work a lot and we have had friends over etc ... oh well ... I will most likely do a bit of coding over the weekend to catch up on all the things I've been itching to implement

• Aug 2 1998: .... didn't hack almost at all .. went out with a couple of friends to see a movie ... well in the evening I did hack a few things but not much ... didn't feel like it today ... :)

• Aug 1 1998: ahhh ... what a lazy day ... woke up about 1 (in the afternoon of course) ... I hacked on the panel trying to get things cleaned up for the release ... most of the day I've spent chasing a gtk bug which I never found ... on the brighter side I found one completely unrelated gtk bug ... with the panel now instead of "add" buttons we have menu item menus ... (kind of a weird concept, popup menu from a menu?) ... grabs don't work well on it yet, but I guess that will follow ... drawers still cleanup ... today I only killed about 50 lines, so I need to do more in terms of cleanup

• July 31 1998: hmmm ... well I worked on the panel quite a lot in the last few days ... the changes include much saner geometry handling which is more gtk'ish, greatly improved session save performance, and very quick applet adding since I reduced the number of Xwindows needed to put common applets on the panel (launcher,menu,drawer) to 1/3 ... also those applets ceased to be buttons and became pixmaps only (since the gnome pixmap has it's own window everything works peachy, though that makes alpha channel almost impossible (X doesn't support it) ... we'll see how that mess is solved ... I'll be soon adding tile support for those buttons so that you can put different "tiles" under drawer, menu and launcher icons (this will make it much easier to distinguish between those three) ... (this is not turning out like that feature freeze I was planning)

• July 28 1998: I'm a bit lazy today so I did very little, but I did start redoing the geometry stuff on panel-widget and I have some ideas on how to get out of the current mess it's in

• July 27 1998: got back yesterday nite ... didn't go to work today since I was doing other things, got to hack the panel in the evening and did a lot of menu work ... I really need to clean up the panel-widget geometry code, the current one is just a huge mess and doesn't work

• July 24 1998: yesterday I did some work on the menu stuff, its now possible to make drawer from a menu ... (I dunno if it's all that useful to add a drawer from the system menu ... especially on slow machines ... this makes it even more obvious that the allocation stuff needs to be very optimized ....) ... today I'm going away for the weekend so don't expect anything too new on the panel over this weekend:)

• July 22 1998: actually did very little on the panel, I feel lazy today ... maybe some other time ... but I added the APPLET_WRITING document to the panel info. So if you want to write panel applets ... here's your chance

• July 21 1998: continuing with panel cleanup, mostly just moving code around files, some files are now actually completely different then they were before, and there are a lot of new files ... etc ... etc ... etc ... basically just about no bugs fixed, just code restructuring ... I will still get to more cleanup, but I hope to keep file structure as it is now ...

• July 20 1998: ... Elliot made orbit work and made the panel work with it ... I can't get it to work however (ORBit that is) ... so I'm still running it with mico ... I've started a major cleanup of the core, since the old code was quite broken and this showed itself with the orbit stuff ... I got some cleanup done today .. and more will follow ... it's 0 new features, it's only cleanup and bugfixing ...

• July 16 1998: hmm few days with no post, I'm getting lazier, anyway ... this week was mostly work ... though I did get to a few things this week (regarding the panel I mean) ... but nothing too big, mostly bug fixes and minor improvements ... plus I put more stuff into the TODO, quite a lot of stuff to do with cleanup:) ... on a separate note ... this KDE vs GNOME flamewar thingie is almost like wildfire ... with most of the people arguing having absolutely no clue as to what they are talking about ... best are posts of the type "let's not start a flamewar here ... but (GNOME|KDE) (rules|sucks)!" ... or "Linux is about choice so Redhat should include KDE" ... hmmm we have some high IQ people among us as I see ... makes me confident about the future of the human race ...

• July 12 1998: didn't feel like going to work on sunday, so I stayed home and hacked the panel ... I did quite a lot too ... basically the menus are now reread in a much smarter manner, etc ... etc... so a lot of stuff on the menu side, plus other fixes here and there ... I also got involved in a licensing flamewar again ... I need to stop doing that ... "write 100 times on the blackboard: Will not discuss licenses with silly people"

• July 11 1998: last two days we've actually been doing work this also meant that i got home very late ... and panel wise I've been doing some cleanup, so no really new stuff except about 150 less lines of code that have been stripped off in the process, while increasing functionality. More is to come in terms of cleanup...

• July 9 1998: well .. did a little bit at work .. fought with the reparent bug that I now blame entirely on gtk and gtksocket ... and I also demoed gnome at our lug meeting ... plus I spent a LONG time looking at xscreensaver hacks ... so I was wondering how many braincells I have left if I spent that long looking at screensavers ...

• July 8 1998: hmm .. didn't do much at work, but oh well ... went to dinner with friends ... got home about 11 ... did some work on cleaning parts of the panel stuff up ... mostly related to drawers ... there still seem to be many issues with multiple panels ... some cause segfaults, some are just cosmetic ... oh well ... I also made a small snapshot of the corner widget in action

• July 7 1998: yesterday I started the corner panel type ... I also got only about 3 hours of sleep ... anyway ... I'm still up and I finished the corner type today ... it almost seemed too easy ...

• July 5 1998: "took the day off" .. hacked the panel most of the day and went to the movies ... funny how the movies that are good usually play in small theaters and there isn't more then 5 people in to see them ...

• July 4 1998: hmmm ... ok I am a looser .. I went to work and got home around 0:40 AM ... hmmm ... didn't really do anything with the panel but I'm trying to compile all of gnome ...

• July 3 1998: ... yes I know people with half a life had something better to do today ... but I went to work, sue me .... got home late but did a bit of stuff on the panel ... it now should be more optimized in terms of redraws, although it seems to have a nasty effect on drawers that would otherwise go off the top of the screen, but that's a very minor thing ... there is still a nasty flash when you move around a panel that has an applet in the middle ... I'll look at that next .. now you can also add new edge drawers, but you can't get rid of them yet :)

• July 2 1998: well I wasnt at work and spent the day making the panel work again. so everything seems to work now so I committed, there were actually a couple of bugfixes from the previous version so this one should be more sane and stable too ... however the config file format has changed so the panel won't read your old config file and you'll need to redo your config ... it was TOO much trouble and this IS development software so I can get away with that ... the applet API has changed very slightly but has backward compatibility hacks ... it even preserves binary compatibility ... so check out the newest cvs version ...:)

• July 1 1998: again came home late from work (around midnight) so I didn't get all that much time on the panel again ... but I did clean up the snapped widget and it seems to work quite nicely ... actually some things work better then they did before ... and there might even be speed improvements ... but I haven't tested those) .. now I have to make the drawers work ... and I can commit ...

• June 30 1998: came home around midnight .. so you can imagine that I didn't have that much time left for the panel ... but I did get more stuff working and did more cleanup (more cleanup still to follow) .. it would be nice to get the beast to at least mostly work so I can stick it in cvs again without people bitching too much ...

• June 29 1998: I had very little time for hacking, but at least in that time, I got the entire thing to compile, squashed a few obvious bugs and I made the snapped work to some extent. now comes the hard part of making the whole lot play nice ... I hoped it would behave better once it compiled ... but ... boy was I wrong ... now I need to catch all the warnings it spits out ... and fix all my braindamages I've put into the code in the last week ... also I might just go and dump the config file compatibility now and that will make some code nicer and probably more reliable ... I've also made it do smooth moving instead of by increments of 10 ... this might prove to be bad, but I hope it will work out to be a good change

• June 28 1998: definitely a better day for hacking then yesterday, hacked on the panel for most of the day, then I went to a movie (don't ask me which one, suffice to say it SUCKED) ... so I got the panel theoretically adapted to the new framework ... most of it now compiles but there's still a lot of cleanup needed .. and probably a tun of bugs crept in ... but at least I'm not coding completely blindly any more:) ... on another note .. expect a large backwards incompatible change in the config system soon ... I need to make session-saving less resource hungry .. and it will also make the whole thing more robust I guess (and more friendly to applets, they will now get a file instead of just a section) ... but that's coming later .. after I've stabilized the panel from the recent changes ... so much to do ... so little time :)

• June 27 1998: got a killer headache ... but I did finish the drawer widget ... and I did start working on adapting main.c ... this is gonna need more clean-up in the long run as it seems ... the fact that I split up the container of the panel and the panel itself is causing a lot of trouble ... but hopefully it will pay off by making new panel types much easier ... I'm also toying with the idea of plugins for the panel types ... or even better panel types exported like applets to other programs ... this might be useful for more integration with mc .. or maybe some window manager might take advantage of it ... anyway ... won't do much now ... I can't concentrate with a headache :) ..

• June 26 1998: hmmm I actually did merge the three base widgets back into one ... but hopefully in a cleaner way then before .. plus I think I finished the snapped widget .. so I need to get the drawer one done and then make the whole bit work ...

• June 24 1998: went out and saw truman show .. pretty cool, got home late and I don't feel all that great ... but I did prune the flowing widget (mostly same type of work as packed so it went pretty quickly) ... now all that is remaining is to create the final drawer and snapped widgets .. and then the corner and free ones ... and a bit further in future the tabbed one ... these top level ones might be a bit harder then it was up to now, but we'll see ... hopefully ... I won't hit any snags ... probably the first panel-widget pruning was the worst one since I was discovering all kinds of interdependencies between the types ... so this solution actually has more code to worry about ... but I guess I'll dump some code back into panel-widget sooner or later to clean it up a bit ... then again .. the exact opposite might happen to give more flexibility ... I've even had the impure thoughts of merging the packed and flowing into one type (panel) ... now it would be much simpler given all the work ...

• June 23 1998: got home late ... around 10 ... so I didn't get too much done .. but hopefully I got the panel and packed widgets now theoretically done, now the remaining 3 to get back to the original functionality, and 2 more to get new panel types packed and free (well free was there before but was not very usable) ... this way it should also be possible to add the "tabbed" panels as miguel suggested ...

• June 22 1998: hmmm ... woke up earlier then normal (9am) ... but that was the only good thing today ... basically I didn't do anything worthwhile today ... I put in about an hour today into splitting the widgets .... but at this rate I'll be doing it all week ...

• June 21 1998: ok I've bit the bullet and I'm splitting up PanelWidget into 7 widgets (well one base one, plus two derivated ones plus 4 types of panel that will not derive but include one of the above two) .... I have finished pruning the base widget and will start on the derived ones asap ... don't expect anything new in cvs for a few days though ... this doesn't look like anything completely trivial ... but I just might get it done this week or next week I guess ... other then that I watched movies for most of today :)

• June 20 1998: watched elections in czech .. then went and made gsearchtool work. it's basically a complete rewrite, just about everything was replaced. it's not completely done (the locate front end isn't done and most likely won't be for some time) ... also today, I added a w I also decided that putting a space between the newsitems is a good idea

• June 16 1998: ok, got a bit of panel hacking time and did some drawer work. hmmm .... earlier I promised to work on the search tool, I WILL get to it, it's just that I still have a few fresh ideas about the panel, which I want to do before going into finishing the rewrite of the searchtool :)

• June 15 1998: didn't do all that much on the panel the last week end ... I'm going through the todo list and picking small simple stuff .. I bought the kinesis ergonomic keyboard ... and my typing on it isn't as fast as it used to be on the normal keyboard yet ... I hope to get more panel hack time this week ...

• June 6 1998: getting a bit lazy with these updates :), anyway, I committed major updates to the panel lately, so there was a lot cleanups and minor changes in the entire code, and a lot of the reported bugs have been addressed, still a lot to do on the panel though and I have some major changes lined up for it, mainly to the menu stuff and the panel-widget. I'll probably go and try to finish the gsearchtool next week, it will use mc's vfs as well as find and locate as it seems now ... depending on the vfs implementation I might just drop the find support since it would complicate things ...

• June 3 1998: ok I got back from linux expo sunday and now I need to catch up with panel updates and cleanups and work stuff:) ... panel can now be dragged over the screen and another bunch of updates are in.

• May 26 1998: well didn't do much today, tomorrow I'm flying to Nc for linux expo. Still some work to do on the search tool, but I guess I'll get something done there, since I'm taking my laptop.

• May 24 1998: Finals are over. Over the weekend I fixed a tun of bugs in the panel, made a gen_util applet that combines mailcheck printer and clock into one executable, and yet again started work on gnome search tool, this time I hope to finish it (I added it to the cvs tree, but without asking miguel so I wonder if my ass will be kicked:)

• May 21 1998: one more final to go ... anyway, today I yet again changed the interface for applet_widget, hopefully the last time now. It just makes more sense now and makes certain stuff easier. I made all apps use it, plus corrected a whole bunch of warnings. Also I started writing a little tutorial for applet writers, still has a long way to go, but at least it's a start.

• May 20 1998: as a break from studying and work I decided I'll hack the panel for a little bit and it turned into an about 4-5 hour hackspree in which I fixed up the multiapplet support and cleaned up other stuff, mostly around that area, so if I fail my finals I can blame it on the panel :) .. good news is, that finals are over friday so I plan on hacking the panel a lot more again ... and now the task at hand seems to be merging applets to become multi-applets to reduce overhead.

• May 16 1998: again one of those days where I had no time, been at work the whole day ... did tiny bit of work on the panel

• May 15 1998: today I didn't have much time so I only fixed the ugly "panel likes the top position" bug on the panel, I still need to completely debug the multiple applet support, and do loading of applets in a row instead of all at once.

• May 13-14 1998: I've been to work for 30 hours straight so I didn't do much gnome coding, you can imagine, I woke up today at 1am and finished (but didn't test) the multiple applet support, and hunted down a few genius bugs (since I need to use it so I fix bugs as I find em even though I don't actively work on it lately) ... that made me install the new gdb which seems very stable now (unlike the old one which segfaulted on me on every second program)

• May 11 1998: spent the last few days with school and work mostly and haven't been able to really work on the panel ... I'm adding multiple applets per process support and it seems to be going along rather well ... this should reduce memory requirements if applets will be lumped together into one chunk ...

• May 6/7 1998: to take a break from doing projects and other meaningless stuff from school, I fixed a few bugs and added a few minor features in the panel. also I wrote fish_applet, which is completely useless ...

• May 4 1998: Tested all of gnome yet again (or tried to), fixed a couple of bugs in the panel, added an about box, fiddled with the cpuload applet ...

• May 3 1998: Tested gnome, tried to build more of it, got new egcs, and made all applets use applet-widget which I wrote today

• May 2 1998: Spent today and yesterday hacking on the panel made the whole thing use only a list and dumped the array ... added a new movement mode, and merged the launcher with the panel (we won't use corba for launchers any more) ... so A LOT of changes to the panel and it's hopefully getting much more stable

• Apr 30 1998: Today was a day of cleanup of the panel-widget code. I store the applets in a linked list and have a structure with all the info now, it reduces the cpu time to do something and makes the whole thing nicer and easier to manage. I also took out the menu items for adding drawers and swallows (just the menu items not the actual support for these) as those are not ready for public yet, so the release shouldn't have them (I'll reenable them after 0.14). Plus I added keyboard support to gcalc, but it doesn't work for my numpad which I didn't care to figure out. BTW check out what Miguel added, drag an image file from gmc onto the panel and be amazed ... :)

• Apr 29 1998: Fixed a couple of cosmetic bugs on the drawers, some geometry bugs, and a bug with dragging corba applets ... still there are some bugs to be fixed, but most of these are cosmetic as far as I can see.

• Apr 28 1998: Fixed another one of those widget corruption bugs today on the panel, and I'm working on making the drawers open/close nicer, the drawers have a ton of cosmetic problems right now but are otherwise getting stable.

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