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Monday, August 31. 2009

Debian Help needed for final libsoup2.4 ... Posted by Neil Williams in Debian at 22:39

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Help needed for final libsoup2.4 fixes in drivel 3.0

Drivel 3.0.0 (current SVN trunk) is now ready for GTK+3.0. libegg has gone, there is one remaining issue with the GtkRecentChooser replacement. libgnome and libgnomeui are going away too and these have been dropped from drivel (therefore bonobo has gone too). gtksourceview has been migrated from 1.0 to 2.0. GtkSpell now correctly finds all supported dictionaries and a whole load of console messages about invalid casts etc. have been fixed. There is no libglade anymore, it's GtkBuilder throughout. Essentially, everything needed to bring drivel up to date with GTK+3 is in place.

Problems.


  1. The libsoup2.2 -> libsoup2.4 transition is a mess. Some of it works but the libsoup2.2 code that has been added to drivel needs to be dropped and a genuine 2.4 interface created. I'm not that familiar with this side of drivel - I'm hoping others have more expertise debugging the actual network / XMLRPC / Soup connections between drivel and sites like livejournal. Any libsoup migration experts out there?


    • MT support


      Current SVN trunk can use MovableType (MT, Wordpress, Serendipity) although a few niggles remain (categories work in some MT and not others). Serendipity cannot post. Invalid request payload: xmlrpc element PARAM cannot be child of PARAM, so that's libsoup too.

    • Blogger 1.0


      Support appears working, albeit with a few changes I've just made.

    • Advogato support


      Appears to work fine. http://www.advogato.org/person/codehelp/

    • Atom/Blogger 2.0 support


      Really not sure on this one:
      (drivel:32119): Drivel-WARNING **: parse_xml_journal_list: XML is not a
      
<feed>
      - so libsoup again but it's quite possible that this error hides other errors too.

    • LiveJournal


      Here are the real problems. LJ didn't work with (the unreleased) 2.1.1 either and it fails in the same way with 3.0.0. "Could not understand server
      response."       and lots of complaints about syntax errors on the console.

  2. Removing an account causes a crash - somehow the combo_box is not registering the item as active until reselected. I've got a fix that prevents the crash but that's going to be annoying. Watch for:
    Drivel-Message: login_name_active = -1
    

    
(drivel:31084): Drivel-CRITICAL **: remove_username_cb: assertion
    
`login_name_active > 0' failed
    Any GTK+3.0 gurus who can help with that one - much appreciated.

  3. GtkRecentChooser is not updating itself when a draft is saved.



debcheckout still has the old GNOME details until 3.0 is uploaded, so the SVN details at SF are:
svn co https://drivel.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/drivel drivel
SF homepage:
http://drivel.sourceforge.net/
Dev mailing list (for bugs and patches)
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/drivel-list
Or just send me the patches direct (email details in the source files).
posted with 2.0.4

If you want to test all the various clients, you'll need wordpress, movabletype-opensource and serendipity installed as Debian packages (and configured) and accounts at advogato, livejournal and blogger.

So, dear lazyweb, anyone got some ideas?

Thursday, August 20. 2009

Debian Replacing gnome_help_display with ... Posted by Neil Williams in Debian at 20:29

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Replacing gnome_help_display with GtkAppInfo

libgnome is going away but I got left with one change and I couldn't find any sensible answers:
gnome_help_display (file, NULL, NULL)
To replace that, don't try to get too complex by working out the complete URL to pass - it'll need locale support sooner or later. The trick is that ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/... isn't the only way to load Help. ghelp:package also works, with just the package name.
gchar *uri;

uri = g_strconcat ("ghelp:", PACKAGE, NULL);

g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri (uri, NULL, NULL);

g_free (uri);

or simply
g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri ("ghelp:drivel", NULL, NULL);
Much nicer.

Thursday, August 20. 2009

Debian drivel 3.0.0 GTK3 improving Posted by Neil Williams in Debian at 19:19

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drivel 3.0.0 GTK3 improving

Aha! Drivel SVN has just built with all the deprecated routines disabled:
-DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGNOME_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
The syntax highlighting has been ported to gtksourceview2.0 - albeit with a few changes from previous drivel behaviour.
Recent items don't work and there's one menubar missing but apart from that, I can post to blogs and I've dropped another 4 dependencies. (Including libgnome and libgnomeui as well as libcurl and libpopt.) That's four upcoming transitions all handled.

OK, there are a few more issues but that isn't bad for two days work. (For one, although it posts to some blogs, it doesn't post to mine - so this is posted with 2.0.4).

Neat though is that I quit drivel 3.0, started drivel 2.0.4 from the current debian package and it picked up the unposted content without a flinch.

So, more to do....

Thursday, August 6. 2009

Debian Why I missed DebConf9 Posted by Neil Williams in Debian at 23:37

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Why I missed DebConf9

I was suddenly taken ill, 6 days before my planned departure for DebConf9 in Spain. I won't go into particular details, other than that I was away from home at the time, there was quite a lot of bleeding and pain - certainly initially - and the whole thing was very unpleasant.

I was admitted to hospital, initially discharged (Friday 17th), re-admitted on the Monday (the GP at my temporary location was not particularly pleased that I was discharged in the first place). The pain gradually became less but the swelling was too large for an operation. After a week in hospital, I did have an op under general anaesthetic but the condition relapsed within hours, restarting the bleeding.

Treatments continued, quite uncomfortable and unpleasant - also quite limiting in terms of what I could do to occupy my mind during the hours of "complete bed rest".

I was given a Bookeen by Toby!Churchill as a thank-you for my work in Emdebian and it really came into it's own in the first week in hospital. That initial discharge did allow me to make some preparations by adding some new ebooks recommended by a good friend back at home as well as being able to send a few initial emails to inform other Debian developers of the changes. Despite those benefits, I should really have stayed in hospital from the first day, it was very difficult dealing with the symptoms whilst away from home. In the first week or so, I managed to use the Bookeen to read:

  • Moby Dick
  • Jane Eyre
  • Stalky & Co
  • 20,000 leagues under the sea
  • King Solomon's Mines
  • Just so stories


A lot of my favourite books are classics that are out of copyright - perfect for the Bookeen which can deal with any simple text file. After all that, the Bookeen ran out of battery power and I only had the USB charger with me as this first trip was meant to only be for a few days. Quite hard to do something about that inside hospital. It was also impossible to download new ebooks for the Bookeen when it became obvious that I needed a second week in hospital (no internet connection was getting to be a real problem).

Thankfully, I was still able to use SMS. Two good friends at home kindly sent me paperback books I hadn't read before - the first three books of the Thomas Covenant Chronicles really entranced me and I can't wait to read the second set of three books. I also read "The King's General" by Daphne du Maurier which had clear similarities to Jane Eyre that I'd just finished, and finished "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton.

I was discharged on Monday 3rd - 3 days after Debconf ended and after two weeks in hospital - without a second operation and I'm finally back home. I am now off work for one week, repeating some of the treatments done whilst in hospital. Hopefully, my own GP will agree that I can go back to work after that week. An operation in four to six weeks will resolve the underlying condition.

Treatment times and the various other results of illness mean that I've had to drastically cut back on my Debian workload. I've already unsubscribed from several mailing lists, stopped all sponsoring, delayed any pending uploads for a while and made a rather important decision within Emdebian.

To top it all, cancelling my £150 flights to and from Spain only got me a refund of £22.80, so I need to fit in some extra days at work to recoup the other costs. Thanks, BA.
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