Archive - May 2007
The Mac mirror
2007-05-09 08:52
Ok. This is one of those times I wish Norwegian photography laws weren’t so strict (essentially, you aren’t allowed to unwillingly make anyone the subject of a picture without their consent), as I just witnessed a young woman on the bus pulling her MacBook from her bag, turn it on and use it as a makeup mirror.
I don’t know whether to congratulate you on innovative or stupid use of technology, whoever you are.
(And just so more people won’t misunderstand — she was using the camera as mirror, not the high-gloss screen)
A message to the GTK+-developers
2007-05-07 14:14
Overnight, my Ubuntu installation grew a weird bug: GTK+ applications would, when I tried to change case of text in a number of editors, instead just insert a lowercase ‘u’ with an underline. At the same time, any editor I was using stopped working properly. I got into some weird modal form from which I couldn’t get out. Almost as if VIM had infected my entire system.
And I couldn’t understand why. Until I noticed two things: This only happened in GTK+-based applications. Which lead me to Google. Which again lead me to:
GTK+ 2.10 Specific Notes
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- The hexadecimal Unicode input feature has been reworked. It no longer blocks the use of the sixteen Ctrl-Shift-<hex digit> key sequences. Now it only uses Ctrl-Shift-u.
Somehow, I am not amused. Seriously not amused. Two of the text editors currently installed on my system use Ctrl-Shift-u in various ways to alter text case (Komodo Edit and SciTE). The current fix is worse than the disease. And if you insist on keeping it like this, please choose a different shortcut. One that doesn’t interfere with what is defined in fairly common applications.