It was really nice to see some of the usual suspects, especially the Xamarin gang, and it was great to meet some new people. I was happy to attend the aptly named "GNOME & Mono Festival of Love 2012" hackfest. I'm now in New York, trying to catch my breath after an intense week in Boston. I'm happy to be able to attend this hackfest, so I'm grateful to our sponsors that made this possible: But it has come a long way since we started the porting effort, and I'm looking forward to the benefits we will get from using a more modern toolkit. As such, it is a development release, and it has a few known issues, in particular some visual glitches. It is the first release using GTK+ 3.x, and depends on Gtk# 2.99.1. Of course, we couldn't let them get ahead of Banshee, so Andrés and me took the opportunity to release today Banshee 2.9.0. Of the dozen of hackers present, a lot of them are working on porting C# apps to GTK+ 3.x: SparkleShare, Tomboy, Pinta, Smuxi, etc. NET + GNOME Hackfest, which we kicked off today in Vienna. You can read more about all these improvements in the release notes.Ī big motivation to get that release out the door was the. NET idioms and conventions, like adding an I* to all interfaces. For example, the Group property in Gtk.RadioButton is now a RadioButton array, instead of a non-descript GLib.List.
Everybody porting a C# application to GNOME 3 technology is encouraged to update this page and share their experience.Ī big thanks to our sponsors that made this very productive hackfest possible: While porting these various applications to GTK+ 3.x, we have tried to keep notes of the various lessons learned on a wiki page, but we've probably forgotten some in the heat of the moment. The report for the last day is not available yet, as David is on his way home.
It was an intense week, full of hard work, and lots of fun.