The title of this post is the name of the GimpNet IRC channel that some people are recently using to talk about the .NET bindings of gtk+.

I had never seen this channel with people in it at all in the past. I guess the recent interest comes from the fact that gtk-sharp master is already targeting Gtk+ 3.x API and some people are starting to use it to port things.

One example is Hyena, the awesome library that Gnome projects F-Spot, Banshee and PdfMod use (am I missing some other?). I started the port some weeks ago and all I have received is positive feedback, encouragement, and also a lot of help! For example Olivier Dufour (which I guess he will be recently known as one of the superstars that brought DVD support to Banshee -- work finished but still unmerged) who helped with accessibility and warnings, and Mike Kestner (father/maintainer of all these GAPI-based *-sharp bindings) which helped reviewing my patches to the binding and fixing other issues I reported (and of course for making huge efforts, in the first place, to have the bindings ready for the 3.x cycle, with even some GObject-Introspection experimentation, which I guess is still in the early stages and not enabled yet).

Stay tuned for the progress! (as new contributors have expressed interest in helping out soon). Branches are being created so you can join the effort if you feel like (bugs in bugzilla too, to track what's pending).

@Banshee is finally on twitter, where we'll always keep you up to date and sometimes entertained if you follow us.

We also just released Banshee 2.0.1, a stable, bug-fix-only follow on to 2.0.0!

We've got 2.1.x releases scheduled leading up to 2.2 in September. We'll be porting to Gtk# 3 and dropping a bunch of legacy deps in the process, while still supporting users on older distros. I e-mailed banshee-list more about what that means and how we'll do it.

Hello out there,

I am very pleased to announce the new issue (172) of openSUSE Weekly
News in Greek.

At this point I want to thank all the people for the quality of their work on the translations they send. Also, I would like to congratulate the «usual suspects» of the translating work not only for the quality of their translations but also for the improvement of their work that I have personally observed. Geeckossss, keep up the good work! Finally, I want to welcome the new volunteers to our team for their interest and offcourse for their priceless help.

In this issue you will read about:

* Greg Kroah-Hartman: openSUSE Tumbleweed status for the week of April 22, 2011
* MakeUseOf/Justin Pot: Super Mario Brothers X: The Best Fan-Made Mario Game Ever
* DarkDuck: How To: Page Numbering in Open Source Text Processors
* HowtoForge/Falko Timme: Virtualization With KVM On An OpenSUSE 11.4 Server
* How to upgrade to openSUSE 11.4 Tumbleweed

And of course many many interesting news about openSUSE, plus usefull
advice for making our lives easier.

Enough… read more at: own.opensuse.gr or at
http://el.opensuse.org/Weekly_news.

Looking forward to hearing your comments, advice and anything you would
like to read about at the next issue.

Enjoy it!
Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra)

Hi everyone,


two news for this week-end :

• GNOME 3.0.1 is now available for openSUSE 11.4, in GNOME:STABLE:3.0 repository. See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_3.0 on how to use this repository.
• Live image has been regenerated to use GNOME 3.0.1. It is available at http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ (version 1.2.0)

Oh, I forgot : GNOME3 promo DVDs have been delivered to GNOME Foundation ;)

Enjoy !

I packaged subversion to built against libserf in addition to neon. This adds a second repository access module to handle http and https schemes with potential improvements. To enable, install the packages from my home repository See updated package location.

To enable, adjust your ~/.subversion/servers file:


[global]
http-library = serf


Beyond this, the package tracks the package from devel:tools:scm:svn.

Flat things are good. I'm at Tokamak 5 in Nijmegen, the KDE sprint where we plough a deep furrow into the future of the Free Desktop and sow KDE seeds that will grow into exciting, novel interfaces and make the stuff we already have even faster and more reliable.

So what about the flat things I mentioned? We've just guzzled our way through a stack of pancakes of geological proportions, produced for us by pancake-flipper and KDE allrounder par excellence Adriaan de Groot. Other good flat things are tablets (I won't call them 'tablet computers' in case I sound old fashioned), which are in evidence here in a variety of makes and models. We're working on several things that will make KDE on tablets as easy and fun to consume as Adriaan's pancakes.

I'm here for a few days to make KConfigXT, KDE's proven automatic configuration persistence layer, work with user interfaces programmed in Qt Quick, and to support the Plasma Active work going on in the openSUSE Build Service with my geeko skills.

Hi everyone, it is me again (yes, I know two posts in two days, incredible ;)



In the past week, we have been working on both GNOME:STABLE:3.0 repository and on creating a GNOME 3 Promo DVD, based on this live image, but with more content on it (LibreOffice, Banshee 2.0, etc..). Because of this, image size has increased a bit (950MB)

Good news too, we fixed KMS issues with some Radeon cards people reported when using live image (problem was fixed once the image was installed).

This new image (1.1.0) is now based on GNOME:STABLE:3.0 repository and contains all security and bugfix updates for openSUSE 11.4.

To download the image, go to http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/

Enjoy !

I'm part of this year's openSUSE Conference program committee, in order to bring in some of my experience with organizing the awesome FOSDEM conference ;)

So we had our first program committee meeting today, and the summary is available on the wiki, on the forums and the opensuse-project mailing-list.

Hi everyone,



openSUSE GNOME team has been busy polishing GNOME 3.0 packages for openSUSE 11.4 but here they are, for your pleasure


Everything is explained at : http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_3.0
including :

• how to install GNOME 3 using 1-click install from your favorite Web browser,
• how to switch from my previous repository (home:fcrozat:gnome3, which will be soon phased out) to the new repository. This is important to continue receiving updates, for instance, if you installed live image on your system.

A new live image will be available shortly, based on this new repository (but this will be for another blog post).

Enjoy !