The GNOME Documentation Library does not render well on Internet Explorer 6.0.x.

Firefox 1.5.0.1 seems to be much better.

More than 70% of my attemps to view the archives of anjuta-devel@lists.sourceforge.net are met with this:

Add to that the following "sponsorship notice" at the bottom of every post.

Finding such stuff on the Anjuta developers' mailing list just underlines the irony. :-/

I have never realized what people find so special on SourceForge.net. Malfunctioning list archives is a serious issue in my opnion. Now that Anjuta is officially a part of GNOME, I hope they find some better place to host their mailing lists.

I spent much of the extended weekend (Friday was Doljatra & Good Friday) trying to get the camera on my Intel Macbook to work on Fedora. You can find almost all the non-Fedora specific information is available at http://bersace03.free.fr/ift/.

So I went ahead and created a RPM (review request: #438561), spent some time fiddling with udev because I was not getting a /dev/video0 to represent the camera, and then discovered that the USB device ID (obtained from lsusb) had to be explicitly specified to ift-load to get the firmware to actually load on to the device.

As mentioned on http://bersace03.free.fr/ift/ Ekiga was a breeze to set up, but  Cheese was not. Cheese 0.2.4 which ships with Fedora 8 kept crashing with a SIGSEGV somewhere deep inside the GStreamer library. It was a classical case of strcpy(des, NULL). So one has to grab Cheese 2.22.x from Rawhide and update GStreamer accordingly. If you happen to have the gstreamer-plugins-bad packages from Livna then you might be in for a 350MB download. You have been warned. :-)

GNOME Kashmiri seems to be in good hands.

Rakesh just sent me this screenshot of Yelp in Kashmiri. More to come...

Rakesh has started the GNOME Kashmiri Translation Team. He is in the process of doing the initial groundwork before starting the actual onslaught.

If you happen to know the Kashmiri language, then I am sure you can lend a hand.

So my Olympus C370Z digital camera is again working with the latest Rawhide kernels. One of my earlier updates had broken it and it would refuse to import any photograph. I still do not know what the actual problem was, and how it got solved. On a probably unrelated front I find that gthumb --import-photos is getting invoked twice leading to two pop-up dialogs

The camera needs a fresh pair of batteries right now and I am really curious about this strange behaviour.

GNOME Password Generator is now back as a Fedora package.