Monthly Archives: October 2010

Dave Neary on forking

As someone who witnessed Shotwell get forked over a dispute of two text labels, I have to chuckle and nod my head at Dave Neary’s apt analogy: A fork is like a schoolyard football game. Tommy brings a ball to

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Those “realize” & “map” widget signals

I’ve always been a little fuzzy on the relationship between these important Gtk.Widget signals: “map”, “map-event”, “realize”, “show”, and “expose-event”.  I was working on a problem with Shotwell today and realized (no pun) that I needed to intercept at least

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