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Et tu, Cthulhu

Personal blag of Hans Petter Jansson: Fun with computers edition

    Category: GNOME

    On the Graying of GNOME

    On December 16, 2020 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME

    The GNOME project turned 23 this year, and despite equally persistent rumors to the contrary, it's still alive and kicking. Just how alive, though?

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    desktop-file-utils 0.24 released

    On July 26, 2019 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    One thing one can do in this amazing summer heat, is cut the 0.24 release of desktop-file-utils. It's rather a small thing, but since the last few releases have been happening at roughly three-year intervals I felt it merited a …

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    Battle of the Bilerps: Image Scaling on the CPU

    On July 8, 2019 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    I've been on a quest for better bilerps lately. "Bilerp" is, of course, a contraction of "bilinear interpolation", and it's how you scale pictures when you're in a hurry. The GNOME Image Viewer (née Eye of GNOME) and ImageMagick have …

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    What ails GHashTable?

    On August 29, 2018 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    I promised a closer look at GHashTable and ways to improve it; here's that look and another batch of benchmarks to boot. This time around I've dropped most of the other tables from the plots, keeping only khash and adding …

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    A hash table re-hash

    On July 24, 2018 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    Hash tables! They're everywhere. They're also pretty boring, but I've had GLib issue #1198 sitting around for a while, and the GNOME move to GitLab resulted in a helpful reminder (or two) being sent out that convinced me to look …

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    GNOME and Rust

    On November 1, 2016 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    I've been keeping an eye on Rust for a while now, so when I read Alberto's statement of support for more Rust use in GNOME, I couldn't resist piling on… From the perspective of someone who's quite used to C, …

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    It's not a picnic table, part 2

    On April 6, 2008 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    As a followup to my previous GHashTable post*, Benjamin encouraged me to time the swfdec test suite – "make check" in the tests dir is consistently 4% faster with the patch. * A WordPress upgrade ate said post about how …

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    openSUSE GNOME Meeting

    On October 31, 2007 By Hans Petter Jansson In GNOME

    The openSUSE GNOME team will be holding its first meeting tailored to Asia-Pacific time zones on Thursday 12:00 UTC, in #opensuse-gnome on irc.freenode.net. If you’ve been left out because of your time zone previously, this is your chance to participate.

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    GVFS Benchmarking

    On June 28, 2007 By Hans Petter Jansson In GNOME

    For Novell’s hack week, I wrote some benchmarking code for GVFS. It may not sound that exciting, but performance interests me, and it needed to be done. So far, the results are much better than I feared – for remote …

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    GVFS Progress

    On May 17, 2007 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    Alexander Larsson has been hacking like a whirlwind, bringing us the next generation in VFS services for the desktop, GVFS. By now, a lot of the planned functionality is done, and we even have a partially done FUSE frontend which …

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