Archive for the ‘guitone’ Category

guitone 0.9 – “long time no see” release [updated]

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

I've released guitone-0.9 today. This is mainly a bugfix release which contains only two new features: People can select the correct encoding for a file which is displayed in guitone's diff dialog. Guitone is capable of setting and restoring a custom file attribute for ...

Hacking on the Train back Home

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I've been in Hamburg today with two other colleques to show off a milestone of our current project at work. Since the customer was quite satisfied, I was in the mood and finished a short hack for the next guitone release: A node info panel. Here is the obligatory screenshot: The ...

guitone 0.8 released – spring time is hacking time!

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

guitone 0.8 has been released today. Major improvements happened under the hood, the outstanding changes are: guitone is now licensed under GNU GPL Version 3 or later. Please note that you're now only allowed to legally distribute binaries which you've built with Qt 4.3.4 or later, since earlier versions ...

Hide Qt GUI applications from the Mac OS X dock and menu

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Starting with Qt 4.4 which was released a few days ago Qt now honors the <key>LSUIElement</key> <string>1</string> setting in the Info.plist file of the application bundle. This is particularily useful to create bundled application which should not pop up in the global dock or menu, f.e. daemons which run in the background or ...

montone hackery

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

As promised a few days ago I'm writing a few words on the Monotone Summit which took place in Wuppertal from 28th of April to 4th of May 2008. I could only attend for five days because my train left already on early saturday morning, and I almost managed to ...

Perverted Logic / Monotone Summit

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

If you like to have a laugh today, read this. Found via Rob Weir's blog. The Monotone Summit goes on and its quite fun to meet and work with all the people I just know from IRC or the mailing list. I mostly worked on automation stuff so far and improved ...

Google Summer of Code 2008 is up…

Monday, March 17th, 2008

...and neither guitone nor monotone will be a part of it. Google just put the list of mentoring organizations online and our direct competitors, namely git and Mercurial, of course got slots. On #gsoc on Freenode a Google employee told the crowd about a total of 505 applications this year, where ...

Summer Of Code 2008 / guitone Status Update

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

I've just read on Slashdot that applications for this year's edition of Google's Summer Of Code start in early March. I'm thinking about pushing this a little more this year for the monotone project, since we kind of "missed" it last year (we sent in our application too late). And ...

guitone 0.7 released

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

guitone 0.7, my Qt-based monotone GUI, has just been released today. Most of the changes over the past 9+ months since the latest major version are under the hood, so there are only a few "new" things you can actually see (most notably the file history browser, a new icon set ...

Step by step

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Over the last few months I've worked on a new monotone interface for guitone from time to time. This new interface supersedes the old one in a couple of aspects; the most important one is that it runs the monotone processes in separate QThreads instead of the main GUI thread. ...