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On Monday February the First, 2016 I have the pleasure to join Igalia 's WebKit team as an intern for the next five months. I will probably work on WebKitGTK+ and/or GNOME Web , but what's sure is that it will be fun and interesting! =D

Do you like video games but don't like how inconsistent and annoying it can be to enjoy them on a personal computer? Then read on, I have something for you! And if you're not such a gamer, you'll probably learn fun things in the article nonetheless. In this article I'll present you the new GNOME application called Games , whose first preview version (labelled 3.18.0) just came out. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Games Your games library Video games on personal computers exist in lots of shapes and formats, each of these being accessible in very different ways: games installed from Software are found alongside the applications, Steam games are listed in the Steam client, video game consoles and retro computers games are handled as ROM files, disk images or archives, each one playable with a different application depending on the original platform, some game engines have their games distributed as packages that have to be run with the cor...

I went to GUADEC 2015 which was help in Gothenburg between friday 08/07 and wednesday 08/12, here is what I did there. Deserved thanks First of all, I would like to sincerely thank the organizers of this GUADEC, they made an amazing job! =) I also would like to thanks the GNOME Foundation, the GNOME Travel Committee and the persons volunteering to work for this committee as I wouldn't have been able to attend the conference without their sponsorship. Volunteering I volunteered to help during this GUADEC and it was a great experience. I only had few work to do as there was a ton of volunteers, all I did is to help cleaning the rooms and to be in charge of presenting the speaker, filming its talk and give him a gift for two talks on sunday. Being able to see the Beamer theme I wrote used was quite pleasing too. =) The core days On Friday Alexander Larsson's talk on xdg-app got me really excited about this big shift the Linux desktop is taking, Emmanu...

A list view was a requested feature for Boxes, I decided to commit myself to implement this during this GSoC. March: exploring the idea I started working on adding a list view to Boxes in march 2015. By that time, the expected columns for the list view where: the thumbnail; the machine's name; a system monitor; the machine's IP; the OS' icon; an icon to display show a favorite machine. Implementing such a view using libgd's MainView (the same widget responsible of the icon view) required me: to learn how to write a custom GtkCellRenderer for the system monitor; to find how to get a machine's IP adress; to find how to OS icons are retrieved in Boxes. Unfortunately, I had to pause the implementation of this feature to focus on my studies. July 6–12: designing the list view I joined a chat on Google Hangout where Alan Day, Jakub Steiner and Zeeshan Ali on july 8th. During this talk, Zeeshan stated its desire to stop using l...

What are spinners A spinner is a widget in charge of displaying some indefinite amount of activity via a spinning circle-ish image. They use de "spinner" style class and are visible when the "active" state flag is set. Turning a widget into a spinner Turning a widget into a spinner is pretty simple, just add the "spinner" style class to the widget's style context! But now your widget is probably invisible, and that's normal: as said just before, spinners are drawn only if they have the "active" state flag on, just set your widget's state flags and you're done! Now, depending on the widget you make spin you may have very different results. If your widget is a GtkImage, it will start spinning as if it was a spinner itself, funky results (and vomit) guaranteed! All the other widgets I tested (GtkLabel, GtkBox, …) don't change (they are visible and they don't spin). If you want to render a spinner on an...

I'm glad to announce that I'm going to the 2015 edition of GUADEC! I'm delighted to be able to attend GUADEC for the second time, as my first experience in Strasbourg was extremely enriching. I hope I'll see lots of known and new faces. =) As an intern, I'll give a lightning talk about what I've done so far for GNOME Boxes. I would like to warmly thanks thanks the GNOME foundation for sponsoring by travel, especially the donors and the GUADEC team and the travel committee. It will be the first time I go to Sweden, I'm sure the trip will be fun. Vi ses i Göteborg!

Lasse and I spent some time recently to produce a Beamer template for GUADEC 2015. You can find it here: github.com/sils1297/guadec-presentation-templates . You can use it with Pandoc or directly with LaTeX. Example are shipped too: 2015/presentation.md is a Pandoc example, build it with make pandoc to produce 2015/presentation.pdf ; 2015/guadec-example.tex is a LaTeX example, build it with make tex to produce 2015/guadec-example.pdf . I hope you'll enjoy it, feedback is welcome and if you have any problem don't hesitate to contact me (Kekun) or Lasse (sils) GIMPNet #guadec on GIMPNet .