Monthly Archives: May 2012

Anti-anti-gnome trolling

Posted on May 29, 2012 by T. Fischer

My last two posts attracted a lot of users who spouted nonsense such as:
Please, stop pushing gnome technology to KDE.
or:
Let’s do an experiment:

Write tomorrow on planet gnome: “More Nepomuk in More Places!”

I would like to see these comments on …

Posted in Fedora, Gnome, KDE | 68 Comments

More Zeitgeist in More Places!

Posted on May 28, 2012 by T. Fischer

First, I’ve read all the comments and discussion around the ‘net about my previous blog post where I threw some ideas around for phonon-gstreamer. I’ll follow that statement up with more interesting details later this week, but the important …

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Musings on the linux audio stack

Posted on May 16, 2012 by T. Fischer

I spent some free time today getting caught up on the large backlog of phonon-gstreamer bugs. Towards the end, I started to have delusions of grandeur: Imagine a phonon-gstreamer codebase that doesn’t require supporting a zillion different audio frameworks, …

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Zeitgeist improvements with genetic algorithms

Posted on May 16, 2012 by T. Fischer

Continuing with my previous post about the Zeitgeist team’s improvements with regards to speed, there’s a nifty tool in the sources I wrote yesterday that uses a genetic algorithm to find the slowest queries you can throw at the …

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Zeitgeist optimizations

Posted on May 15, 2012 by T. Fischer

The Zeitgeist team has been hard at work lately. We recently moved from Launchpad and Bzr to freedesktop.org and git, just in time for the 0.9 release. Since then, Seif and I have been hammering away at making a …

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