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I’ve pretty much completed implementing the mechanisms in nautilus and gnome-settings-daemon to implement per workspace wallpapers. I’ve created a short video that shows the current state of the functionality:

As you can see the wallpaper is currently set for whichever workspace the appearance capplet is on.
I’ve put most of the patches (except the gnome-control-center one) into bugzilla:
gnome-desktop: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543596

Its quite clear from the various discussions related to DVCS that there isn’t going to be one clear winner for the choice of VCS for Gnome; everyone wants to use their favourite DVCS. So here’s an idea, why not allow them to?

I’ve been trying to automate the updating of my git-svn repos on my server via cron and I’ve finally succeeded in getting something working so I thought I’d share how I’ve got things setup since there seems to be a lack of information about how to do this.
First hurdle was git-svn doesn’t understand about bare repositories - it always looks for a .git directory. Fortunately this is easily solved since git-svn does support the $GIT_DIR environment variable. So I simply set this to . and run the git-svn commands from within the repository directory. So I initialise the repository with the appropriate git-svn init command and then call fetch to retrieve the svn history.

Today I finally got round to activating ssh access on my hosting account which means I can set up gitweb to publish my git repositories. I’ll be pushing my changes to these repositories as I get things working. The gitweb interface is available at http://git.jsharpe.net/

Today I finally got round to activating ssh access on my hosting account which means I can set up gitweb to publish my git repositories. I’ll be pushing my changes to these repositories as I get things working. The gitweb interface is available at http://git.jsharpe.net/

Well today is the official start of coding for Google Summer of Code, but for me I won’t be able to start coding for another couple of days; I have an exam tomorrow and a programming assignment due Wednesday so I can’t really begin work till then.

Firstly, hello to all that are reading on Planet Gnome as this will be my first post that has been syndicated there. And by way of introduction, I’m a 23 year old student in my final year at York University studying Computer Science and Maths. I’m working on bug 48004 to implement individual workspace wallpapers. (For those that are interested you can find my previous posts at http://gsocblog.jsharpe.net/.)

Firstly, hello to all that are reading on Planet Gnome as this will be my first post that has been syndicated there. And by way of introduction, I’m a 23 year old student in my final year at York University studying Computer Science and Maths. I’m working on bug 48004 to implement individual workspace wallpapers. (For those that are interested you can find my previous posts at http://gsocblog.jsharpe.net/.)

Firstly, hello to all that are reading on Planet Gnome as this will be my first post that has been syndicated there. And by way of introduction, I’m a 23 year old student in my final year at York University studying Computer Science and Maths. I’m working on bug 48004 to implement individual workspace wallpapers. (For those that are interested you can find my previous posts at http://gsocblog.jsharpe.net/.)

Firstly, hello to all that are reading on Planet Gnome as this will be my first post that has been syndicated there. And by way of introduction, I’m a 23 year old student in my final year at York University studying Computer Science and Maths. I’m working on bug 48004 to implement individual workspace wallpapers. (For those that are interested you can find my previous posts at http://gsocblog.jsharpe.net/.)

I had my first bug assigned to me today, and yes its the obvious one: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48004
I’ve also had my SVN account approved and am just waiting for the accounts team to do the final check and set it up, although I probably won’t use it all that much as I’ll be doing my development in my local git repository as i described earlier.

I had my first bug assigned to me today, and yes its the obvious one: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48004
I’ve also had my SVN account approved and am just waiting for the accounts team to do the final check and set it up, although I probably won’t use it all that much as I’ll be doing my development in my local git repository as i described earlier.

I had my first bug assigned to me today, and yes its the obvious one: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48004
I’ve also had my SVN account approved and am just waiting for the accounts team to do the final check and set it up, although I probably won’t use it all that much as I’ll be doing my development in my local git repository as i described earlier.

I had my first bug assigned to me today, and yes its the obvious one: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48004
I’ve also had my SVN account approved and am just waiting for the accounts team to do the final check and set it up, although I probably won’t use it all that much as I’ll be doing my development in my local git repository as i described earlier.

I tried to get a build of gnome done on my computer using the jhbuild tool. I like the way it uses libnotify to inform you when there is a build error. It’s meant that I can leave it compiling in the background whilst doing work on my Masters project and only pay attention when there are errors.
I got stuck compiling pixman with the same error as found here. Unfortunately the fix provided in this case didn’t work for me. I tried both using jhbuild build -a and adding the appropriate PKG_CONFIG_PATH lines to my .jhbuildrc file without success.

I tried to get a build of gnome done on my computer using the jhbuild tool. I like the way it uses libnotify to inform you when there is a build error. It’s meant that I can leave it compiling in the background whilst doing work on my Masters project and only pay attention when there are errors.
I got stuck compiling pixman with the same error as found here. Unfortunately the fix provided in this case didn’t work for me. I tried both using jhbuild build -a and adding the appropriate PKG_CONFIG_PATH lines to my .jhbuildrc file without success.

I tried to get a build of gnome done on my computer using the jhbuild tool. I like the way it uses libnotify to inform you when there is a build error. It’s meant that I can leave it compiling in the background whilst doing work on my Masters project and only pay attention when there are errors.
I got stuck compiling pixman with the same error as found here. Unfortunately the fix provided in this case didn’t work for me. I tried both using jhbuild build -a and adding the appropriate PKG_CONFIG_PATH lines to my .jhbuildrc file without success.

I tried to get a build of gnome done on my computer using the jhbuild tool. I like the way it uses libnotify to inform you when there is a build error. It’s meant that I can leave it compiling in the background whilst doing work on my Masters project and only pay attention when there are errors.
I got stuck compiling pixman with the same error as found here. Unfortunately the fix provided in this case didn’t work for me. I tried both using jhbuild build -a and adding the appropriate PKG_CONFIG_PATH lines to my .jhbuildrc file without success.

Since my work is going to span across many modules and that each of these modules are in it’s own svn repository, I have decided to use git-svn as a source control tool. I will be publishing my git repository at git.jsharpe.net once I’ve got ssh access enabled on my server.
Using git to access svn repository
Some of you may be interested in how to use git to access a svn repository. (A more comprehensive guide is available here) This is how I used it to clone the gnome repositories:

Since my work is going to span across many modules and that each of these modules are in it’s own svn repository, I have decided to use git-svn as a source control tool. I will be publishing my git repository at git.jsharpe.net once I’ve got ssh access enabled on my server.
Using git to access svn repository
Some of you may be interested in how to use git to access a svn repository. (A more comprehensive guide is available here) This is how I used it to clone the gnome repositories: