February 20th, 2006
Lookie!
Ruby-GTK Uploadr running on OroborOSX on Mac OS X Tiger. Of course, it doesn't feel native, but at least better than vanilla xorg. I should probably try playing around with GTK+OSX.
February 16th, 2006
Flickr Uploadr on OS X
So I finally managed to get my GUI Flickr Uploadr to work on OS X. It was not easy installing ruby-gtk2 in that I had lots of dependency issues. The issues were mostly with atk, gdkpixpuf, and glib. At first, I tried installing GTK2 using Fink. It failed because of GCC issues with glib (I think), which I later figured was because of a problem with pkg-config. I ditched Fink, and used DarwinPorts. Things were good.
After that, I had GTK initialization issues, which was because I hadn’t exported DISPLAY (to 127.0.0.1:0; thanks, Gopal!).
I couldn’t use my old code as is because the Ruby-GTK2 bindings on my FreeBSD box is an older version. (I’ll put the code up sometime later. And maybe also try to document some poorly documented Ruby-GTK2 stuff like Gtk::TextView, Gtk::TextBuffer, etc.) So, it works, but not perfectly:
Yeah, it looks horrible, but then I&rsquo'm not going to play with it on OS X again—I just wanted it to work.
Oh, by the way, Google Talk is *love*!
February 8th, 2006
Flickr Uploadr
I normally use the command-line Flickr uploader. Just hacked this up for GUI-inclined folks. Also, I’m not much of a desktop guy—“the web is the desktop”—so, yeah, just playing around. The code is here. Requires the Ruby API and Ruby-GTK. (The Ruby bindings for GTK are nice to work with, by the way.)
Doesn’t look very good, etc. I’ll probably try to improve on it.
While looking for pictures to test with, I found a picture of one of my college friends—she with the ocean behind her. There’s something about that picture that makes me smile. That’s my wallpaper for now.
