Gareth Jones - Latest Comments

Re: Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10

twitter-14060064 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:18:09 -0000

It's not what I was seeing, but you've actually answered a question for me that I was going to ask! I was wondering how Empathy, Pidgin, Evolution and Gwibber all seem to have their place in it when the application isn't running! I'll consider that functionality, or at least recommend it to the emesene developers.

I'll keep playing around and see what I can come up with - I'll let you know my results!

Re: Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10

garethj — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:26:41 -0000

Worth noting that with Karmic, any entry in /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/ will appear permanently in the indicator applet. It seems that if the description is visible (from the .desktop file) then the app is not running and when the app is started (i.e. the server is created), the description disappears. I believe the ultimate plan is for users to be able to customize a bit more this themselves. Maybe this is what you're seeing?

Re: Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10

twitter-14060064 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:15:52 -0000

server.hide() doesn't work. I've used server.disconnect(handleID), that does stop the server from working but the entry stays in the applet. If I start the plugin again, I get two indicators each time, stop/start it again, 3, etc etc.

I'm new to python so maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I did also try making the server object NULL, which didn't work either :\

I can't release the plugin until that's fixed!

Re: Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10

garethj — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:52:55 -0000

No problem - glad it helped! As for removing the server item, does server.hide() work? I haven't tried it lately but I have a feeling I used that previously. You could also try removing all references to the server instance so the object is destroyed. Let me know how you get on.

Re: Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10

twitter-14060064 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:26:16 -0000

Thanks for this! I'm building a plugin for emesene, and was wondering why it kept breaking since I installed Karmic!

Any ideas how to remove a server item from the applet? Being a plugin, I need to be able to stop and remove the server from the applet when the user disables the plugin. So far, all I can make of other applications behaviour is that it removes it when the application is closed.

Cheers!

Re: Wireless on a Dell Mini 10v in Ubuntu 9.10

Cédric — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:50:06 -0000

Thank you very much.

very helpfull

Re: Wireless on a Dell Mini 10v in Ubuntu 9.10

garethj — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:42:20 -0000

I've only seen what I've written in this article but someone did mention to me that other people have had different wireless problems with the Dell Minis and Ubuntu 9.10. Why do you need to install the desktop version? Can you install the Netbook Remix version and then install the ubuntu-desktop package on top?

Re: Wireless on a Dell Mini 10v in Ubuntu 9.10

mathewdye — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:55:03 -0000

I have a dell mini 9 and have installed the desktop ubuntu 9.10 on 4 times or more and have each time had the wireless drivers not let me activate them I get no error or I get a you are not authorized to do this. Each time the wireless will not activate. If i install the netbook remix 9.10 I am able to activate the wireless......is this a problem others have seen with the desktop ubuntu 9.10

Re: Me - a professional BSL interpreter?

Ree30 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:52:38 -0000

Thats great, thank you much appreciated :-)

Re: Me - a professional BSL interpreter?

garethj — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:01:53 -0000

I didn't understand the point of the fingerspelling alternative and unfortunately Brad didn't provide any extra information. As for fingerspelling practise, the productive stuff you can do by just fingerspelling words in a book or on TV or something. The receptive stuff is a bit harder but Signature provide a few videos you can watch which will contain a variety of fingerspelling (http://www.signature.org.uk/shop.php). There must be a few other content producers too but probably best to go with the official ones! Other than that, you could try searching for BSL videos on YouTube - there might be some stuff people have created that happen to contain fingerspelling. All good practise to see real people signing, particularly those who are fluent obviously.

Re: Me - a professional BSL interpreter?

Ree30 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:30:41 -0000

Hi there,

I'm re-doing my level 2 again, as I failed on 201, but passed on 202 and 203, yes I know what your thinking, Its been said to me by many, anyway I've decided to re-take level 2 again in the hope of helping to build up my confidence again, an have too come acoss your site, which may I add am finding very interesting and helpful, as my latest homework is on compound signs! which your site has very kindly explained. Anyway just thought I would comment on the alternative to fingerspelling which I really don't understand, even though I've done level 2 already I'm still a bit slow on my fingerspelling and also reading finger spellings, and thought the alternative would of helped, but unfortunatley it has'nt, I just don't get it???

Anyway any tips you can give on brushing up on my fingerspelling reading? Unfortunatley I don't know any deaf people :-( and have logged onto loads of sites but have found nothing really helpful yet!

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

garethj — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:27:35 -0000

Great, nice to know it's of use to someone. Sometimes you write these things and wonder whether it'll actually be of use to anyone!

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

garethj — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:26:49 -0000

I've not seen Konstrukt before but looks interesting - will check it out. Thanks for the pointer. Glad you liked the article too :)

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

gargantuan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:32:00 -0000

nice, REST finally started to make sense to me a few days ago when I was messing with headers. This article filled in a lot of the gaps. Thanks.

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

webninja — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:37:06 -0000

Nice introductory article. What do you think about Konstrukt? (http://www.konstrukt.dk)

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

garethj — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:50:39 -0000

Hey, glad you liked the article! REST is definitely confused by many people, really pleased that this helps a little.

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

ma — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:41:33 -0000

nice article! really the first well web resource on PHP-REST web service i found! It's simple and clear!
REST is simple in its concepts, but i think there is still much confusion around what's the differences between the diffrent kind of web-services. I find this article a good starting point for those who doesnt know (or believe to know) about web-services.

Re: Tweetjects and Bluetooth

IPO — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:26:01 -0000

I'm downloading it, Will inform if it has worked useful for me.

Re: Learning sign language

miranda beard — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:52:44 -0000

I think people that are not deaf should line it if they want. Becase they would be able to understand the deaf batter.

Re: SWT browser widgets and local plugin files

rupa — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:39:26 -0000

Hi Gareth,

Thank you very much for your response. But I could not find anything in my plugin.xml (Guessing that Chris' feature.xml is my plugin.xml) to unpack the jar during install. I guess the problem for not displaying the image in html files is that the html file is read to cache by toFileURL() method and the file contents are read and its not able to find the image there. I have to fix it somehow as the dead line is nearby. Anyways, please let me know if you find out any way to sort out this problem.
Thanks,
Rupa

Re: SWT browser widgets and local plugin files

garethj — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:36:35 -0000

Hi Rupa,

Unfortunately I've not done this myself but it appears from Chris' comments above that he did. Sounds like you need to tick the option that unpacks your plugin when installed (in feature.xml). I assume this means that it unzip the installed JAR file rather than leaving it in the eclipse directory as-is. Good luck!

Gareth

Re: SWT browser widgets and local plugin files

rupa — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:49:32 -0000

Hi,

I have a plugin in which the html files are bundled. I followed your steps and could open the html file through plugin jar. But there are some images embedded in those html files which are not showing up. I couldnt get the concept of packing and unpacking which you have told in your previous comment. Please suggest me how to get images in the html file.

Thanks and Regards,
Rupa

Re: Building .deb packages for Python applications

garethj — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:27:03 -0000

Thanks manatlan - that looks like a really useful tool. Will save me some time next time I need to do it.

Re: Building .deb packages for Python applications

manatlan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:57:23 -0000

you should look at :
http://www.manatlan.com/page/py2deb
which does the same thing ...

Re: Learning sign language

Melissa — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:59:49 -0000

no worries Gareth - thanks for all the help youre sharing with everyone x hope portfolio goes well! all the best x