The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing

The GNOME Conference
After Hours Workshops
Designing Applications so That
the UI Can Be Changed for Different Devices
GNOME applications will in the future be used on many different
kinds of devices. These devices' screen sizes and widget sets
can vary and therefore the UI of the applications have to be
ported from one device to another. To make this easier and to
guarantee a broad audience for the applications we would like
to encourage developers to create UIs that are easy to port.
One solution for this is using a UI builder to design different UIs
for different devices and then run them using an interface constructing library. We have
prototyped this by using Gazpacho and libglade in the Maemo platform.
Erik Karlsson
Erik Karlsson has been using GNOME as a development environment
since version 1.0. After working some years on Symbian and Windows
platforms, he realized that there are also companies that actually pay for
working with GNOME. Currently he is working at Nokia with the Maemo
platform.
Writing support ( ΑΑΩŌĿÆДЖ ΩŌĿÆДЖ☎)
) in GNOME,
how to make *better* * better*
The GTK+ Input Method has an old database of compose
sequences that came from XFree86. The current database in
Xorg is much more extensive and there is a need for an update.
See bug #321896.
Simos Xenitellis
Fri 30 17:00
2. Sala d'Actes
Topaz Talk
Fri 30 17:00
4. Sala de Juntes
Tangle Workshop
When he should be working on his thesis, Simos Xenitellis is instead
involved in the GNOME Translation Project and the translation of GNOME
to the Greek language (since 1999). He is a free software advocate, an
Ubuntero, and a Fedora Ambassador. Simos helps out in the update of
the multilanguage writing support in GNOME and advocates for the
DejaVu fonts as the default ones in as many distributions as possible. He
also assists in mentoring new translation teams for GNOME.
Having achieved good out-of-the-box Greek support in Ubuntu, Simos,
along with a bunch of other Greek hackers, have set their sight on Fedora. In addition to this there
is work on the Greek OLPC.
Simos Xenitellis holds a MSc in Information Security from the University of London and his PhD is
on the same subject.
June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 65