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Katoob, the baby has a new father.

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This post has a bit of my history and emotions. It can be skipped!

The summary is: Katoob has a new maintainer.

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Yes, a long time.

Back in 2002, Gtk 2.x was just released. Efforts were spent porting, rewriting and redesigning parts of GNOME. The aim was GNOME 2.0 and later on 2.x

يا مصطفى يا مصطفى

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انا باحبك يا مصطفى

النهارده وصلني بعد الضهر كتاب رحاب, أرز باللبن لشخصين. لا و انا اللي الصبح كنت لسه باقولها عايز نسجه موقعه لما انزل اجازه!!

لا و انا اللي لسه عامل معاه حركة ندالة من يومين!! بجد اودي وشي فين:-(

Automatically insert a statement in each function in C++

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And I thought I'll never do such things again ?
I wanted to insert a debugging statement at the beginning of each function.

for i in *.cc *.c; do sed -i -e 's/\([a-zA-Z0-9 _*:~]*([^).]*) *{\)/\1 \nprintf("%s\\n", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__); /g' $i; done

It can probably be used to insert anything too.

It's dirty but it worked for me. Just keep a backup or make sure the latest code is in any RCS just in case.

Dear Hebrew maemo users...

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I'm getting a lot of questions on how to enable Hebrew under maemo. I know that the fonts have been packaged already and I guess there's also an input method. It's as easy as writing an XML file for my not so broken Hildon Arabic input method.

I just don't understand why can't they be made available publicly or made known ?

Of GNOME and fonts.

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Thanks to those 2 comments. Although placing Xft.dpi: 96 in my ~/.Xdefaults did not help, but I managed to do it through the appearance control center applet. I had to purge the gtk-qt theme engine because it was freezing the dialog and setting it via gconf-editor didn't work as expected.

I had to fight with my fonts this morning but here's my configuration. Maybe it'll be useful to anyone:
DejaVu sans book 12
96 DPI
greyscale smoothing, subpixel slight RGB.

I love KDE. It just works!

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I have 2 laptops. My personal one at home and my work one at the office. Both are running testing. A month or two ago, I did a dist-upgrade on the home one. Later on I rebooted (DUH!) it for a reason I can't remember just to end up with very tiny fonts under GNOME. It took me some time to tweak them back again and play with the GNOME anti-aliasing dialog. Now if you know me well, you know that the last thing someone should do to me is to touch my font settings. I have a very sensitive eye (Because I have a very low vision) and I hardly tweak the fonts. All went somehow fine after that.