Leonardo Fontenelle

This has got to be the weirdest spam ever. Today I received this email with “unsubscribe” as subject and content, from an unknown sender. Could anyone think I would ever reply to this email?

Recently I found out some Windows applications require the MS core fonts to work properly under Wine. Not every GNU/Linux or *BSD user will install those fonts spontaneously, so please make sure the Wine package depends on the fonts packages until this bug report is fixed. Thanks!

Users: I already emailed all packagers listed in Wine’s download page. If your distribution is not listed there, please consider filling an enhancement request on your distribution bug tracker.

The po.vim syntax file and the corresponding ftplugin file make Vim an efficient translation tool, with the pros and cons of showing the “gory details” of the file format. While the ftplugin still lives in the Vim.org scripts repository, the syntax highlight file is already distributed with Vim itself. In the last years I made Vim spell check only translated text and improved the highlight and spell check of XML tags, but now I don’t have the time or interest in further development. If anyone wants to add a feature or fix a bug in the syntax file, please send a patch to bram at moolenaar net. Thanks!

I just noticed Ross Burton published the 1000th comment to my blog, making an average of a few more than 5 comments per article. My spam count grew from 10 thousand to almost 50 thousand, and that’s because Bad Behavior is avoiding many spams from even being blocked by Akismet.

I always wanted to have one true contact list, and share it between my desktop and a mobile device. Paper phone books are much easier to enter and retrive contacts, to be honest, but they are not backup- or sync-friendly, and after months they get a mess and need to be started over. On the other hand, I was never really able to really sync my Evolution contact list with a PDA, a cell phone or even my N800. There’s always an issue: poor syncronization software, mobile device can’t handle many contacts, different applications use different parts of the vCard specification and so on.

So, I guess this is sort of a Dear Lazy Web post. I’d like to know your successful stories: which devices and software did you use to keep the same contact list in the desktop computer and in the mobile device (PDA/cell phone etc.)?

Thanks!

Finally I got myself a new home and some sort of internet connection for it. I was just reading Friedel’s post about spell checking on Google Chrome, where he states that a “system wide spell service that all programs can use” would be on his “wish list for GNOME 3″. Well, GtkSpell uses Enchant already, and LibSexy was included in GTK+ 2.16… What about including GtkSpell in GTK+?

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As you might have noticed, I didn’t contribute much to GNOME lately. More than a simple lack of time, I’m going through a lot of changes in my life. I spent the last two months with little access to my home computer, and having my more-than-year-old tendinitis treated. Anyway, I expect to fix this in the next two weeks. Next week I’ll be nominated family and community physician (similar to the general practitioner in UK) in Linhares city (Brazil), and I should have a home before the end of the month. I’m changing my computer, two: I bought a 32-bits Sempron four years ago, and its mission was to last two years, but only a few weeks ago I found an excuse to throw it away and by a Core 2 Duo with an Intel G45 chipset-based motherboard. (I only regret I won’t have native support for virtualization…)

In May I’ll increase my participation in the great Brazilian GNOME translation team, I’ll update the Brazilian Portuguese vocabulary for Aspell and Vim, and I’ll start contributing to an offline ICD-10 lookup application. (I’m not a developer, but I learned a little pygtk.) Outside the free software helm, I’ll be working harder on my master dissertation, comparing Family Health Strategy to legacy Primary Care in Brazil with regard to hospitalizations by Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (the better the ambulatory care, the fewer the hospitalizations). If I have the opportunity, I hope I can help improving the health politics in Linhares city (even if my job should be restricted to clinical practice) and start writing a blog about health (in Portuguese).

Two and a half years ago I filled a bug report for Ximian Evolution, using Ximian’s bug tracker. Ximian was bought by Novell (which later bought SUSE as well), Ximian’s bug tracker data was imported into GNOME’s bug tracker, GNOME releases passed, and the bug was still there. This is a critical bug report, where the entire content of the ~/.evolution/ folder is erased!

Today I was going to remind Evolution developers how bad the bug was; but then I thought I should try to reproduce it before saying it was still valid. To my great surprise, the bug could not be reproduced anymore! Someone must have fixed this bug in the setup assistant even if (s)he didn’t know about the bug report, which was left as “open”.

Conclusions:

1. Evolution developers are working harder than I thought.
2. The GNOME BugSquad needs help with Evolution: there are 2849 unconfirmed bug reports, out of and 3331 open bug reports for Evolution.
3. The imported bug reports may need to have their named reviewed. I just realized my bug report summary became just Evolution: Old ~/.evolution directo…

Update: See Andre Klapper’s clarification below.

Apparently I exceeded my disk quota in the email provider. I’m working on the issue, and meanwhile I beg your pardon for the trouble.

I’m confident the Brazilian GNOME translation team is going to deliver a high quality and comprehensive translation of GNOME 2.26. For this release, we gathered a larger number of active and experienced translators, and we started working early. But I don’t like keeping things easy, so I decided to follow Andre Kappler’s advice and started filling bug reports about wrong or confuse original messages. We (the pt_BR l10n team) are already used to doing that, but having started early the translation efforts means we have the time to get the original messages fixed before the string freeze, and before they get (mis)translated. Weeks (days?) before GNOME 2.24.0 was released, I found a couple of ambiguous messages, and asked the developer to fix them, but it was already too late (the issue was fixed only for GNOME 2.26). I hope to avoid situations like that this time! If you are interested, take a look at this bug report from Andre Kappler to see how it’s done.