This is a minor release where a couple of bugs have been closed and some UI work was done to improve the workflow. It is worth to mention the new French translation, courtesy of Robert-André Mauchin, updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Daniel van Eeden, and some UI work done by Laudeci Oliveira. Changelog: #1906715 - New records can now be created by double-clicking a date in the main calendar. The due date for this new record will be set to the date selected upon double-clicking.

So I submitted my idea for GNOME’s Summer of Code this year… aaaaaand, it doesn’t seem to be very popular as it is currently categorized as “Underground Ideas”. :) Titled “Enhance Damned Lies and integrate it with open-tran.eu”, it basically tries to lure someone with time to add a little bit of pizzaz to a site that I regularly use in order to proceed with my translations. Now, no offense intended but how can something like “Individual Workspace Wallpapers" be considered as "Rockstar Ideas" compared to the benefits of improving the work flow of those who deliver a GNOME Desktop completely translated every single release cycle?

Dear lazyweb, is there a way to limit the number of rows displayed by a gtk.ComboBox? I know one can set the set_wrap_width property to spread out the items into multiple columns, but that is just so ugly. :)

Today is a very special moment for all of those who were involved with the release of yet another stable GNOME, version 2.22. It also marks the release for another stable Foresight Linux, version 2, keeping the tradition of always releasing together with GNOME! That is a lot of number 2s! :) I want to congratulate everyone who’s helped for the last 6 months, specially the Brazilian translation team that once again delivered a 100% translated GNOME desktop, and the Foresight guys for delivering a great combination of bleeding edge technologies (PulseAudio, PackageKit, Syslinux)!

Boy was I surprised when someone told me that BillReminder was a Featured Linux Download on LifeHacker! Wow!!! There were also articles on New Linux User and Productive Linux. Thank you all for taking the time to test it and recommend it too! Some people have asked me if it is necessary to keep BillReminder running in order to get notifications, and the answer is: no. BillReminder has a daemon that runs in the background and will only poke you (with the baseball bat) if there’s something late or close to being late.

Following the trend of computer companies shipping GNU/Linux pre-installed hardware, Shuttle announced yesterday that they too will ship their XPC model with Foresight GNU/Linux! The official release note can be read here, as well as some provocative comments on the reason why they chose this “little known" distribution. Having seen one of these boxes up and close already, it was fairly cool to see a system that just works out of the box.