Grilo integration in GNOME-Shell

I gave a lightning talk at the Desktop Summit about integrating media lookup features in the Shell. It’s a little experiment I worked on during my Igalia hackfest time. The integration is done via a simple Shell extension that hooks new Grilo based search providers in the Shell.

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Gajim in your GNOME3 Shell

The IM integration in the GNOME3 is interesting, but only for the people using Empathy :) Because my personal preference goes to another client called Gajim I wanted it to fit more in the Shell. To reach this goal I worked on 2 small projects partly during my Igalia hackfest hours …

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WebKitGTK+ Hackfest!

This was a nice week in A Coruña, Spain. The WebKitGTK+ Hackfest went well I think :) The Igalia office is great for such an event, the organization/infrastructure was well done, the hotel near the office was awesome, what else? We managed to get things done code-wise! Even though …

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WebKitGTK+ and HTML5 fullscreen video

HTML5 video is really nice and all but one annoying thing is the lack of fullscreen video specification, it is currently up to the User-Agent to allow fullscreen video display.

WebKit allows a fullscreen button in the media controls and Safari can, on user-demand only, switch a video to fullscreen …

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Mirabeau on Maemo

At FOSDEM Frank and I showed the work we did on Mirabeau, a screencast was made few days before FOSDEM and we showed it but I wanted to add some comments and re-arrange some parts of it, so here it is now, re-arranged with PiTiVi :)

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GStreamer and on-disk videos buffering

A really nice feature every video player using GStreamer and playbin2 should have is media on-disk buffering. Even though it is supported only for Quicktime and Flash videos currently it remains one good improvement of the user experience if you are an avid consumer of Apple trailers and flv :)

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