Moja škrabalica

I am using gedit quite a lot. It's reasonably fast and it provides some nice functionality via plugins.

But I don't like that gedit window stays open even when there are no tabs. I know that it's a feature, and that there is a CTRL+Q for closing gedit, it's just that I would like to use CTRL+W all the time.

Some time ago I patched gedit, but today I realized it's better to write this as a plugin so I can use standard package from Ubuntu and not have to rebuilt it by myself.

So, here it is — gedit tabclose plugin, version 1.0. README and INSTALL files are in the archive.

I read "Interactive Digital Photomontage" paper today, and I think that it is freaking amazing:

We describe an interactive, computer-assisted framework for combining parts of a set of photographs into a single composite picture, a process we call "digital photomontage."

As I can see, there exists an implementation in C++, released under GNU GPL, I don't have any clues how much effort it would take to have this feature enabled in F-spot but I believe it can be major reason for one to switch to it.

Also, I do like how Aperture can group stack frames, and unfold them only on request. Support for linked RAW files (stored on external removable media) is also very nice, but as I am not professional photographer, that's not important to me.

On the other hand, it would be nice to have some support for importing photos from iPhoto (and Aperture). I read once about some Perl script that can do that, but I can't find it right now.

SoC code is imported into GNOME CVS (library-web module), I got my CVS account and have some free time, so nothing stops me from doing more coding.

Now, I am asking for peer review of some changes to how things works before I get my hands dirty and start coding. If you don't like my abuse of English language, it would be fine to read just a last section :)

Changes I am planing to do allows me to fix some design bugs, implement support for updating single module (when new tarball is pushed to GNOME FTP server) or single source (CVS) and more and it's more fun to do that then to play with CSS/XSL...

Once more thanks to Google for this great program! I am making plans what to do with money I got.

From last code release, I implemented writing XHTML files to a subdir of ouput directory, passed from command line. I also added my own XSLT style that is importing Shaun's from gnome-doc-utils and tweak some things. (like extension with lang included for Apache MultiView, generating index XML file etc, but there are many more tweakings to be done, as aim is that generated docs looks like libgo mockups)

I also implemented creating document index chunk (XML file per language with localized title and abstract from a document) and done some work on making lists of recently updated documents (per language and per channel). As before, you can download code snapshoot from here.

Next, I need to work on setting up a system for localization of static templates for indexes, Python code for arranging categories/subcategories/documents and implement XHTML index files output (by merging content with localized templates).

On the sidenote, my summer vacation in Sarti - Greece will be over on Tuesday when I will go home to Belgrade. Past 20 days in here were really great and I even made some new (girl)friends. Weather was nice and I swim much better (and longer) now then before.

But, regular internet access in Belgrade will help me to submit patches for localization of many documents that have errors in DocBook tags - like using instead , forgetting to close tags and so on... and I am very impatient to have faster computer with bigger screen to work on libgo.