I was attending the Desktop search hackfest in Berlin last week.
It was sponsored by Nokia which did a very good job in choosing the location and organizing everything. Big thanks to Nokia for all the work and money they put in.

We are in UI freeze already and string freeze starts today. It's time to show the world what's new in Deskbar-Applet in 2.24.

There's only one major UI change in the new version. History is not in the main search window anymore but in a separate window as it was in 2.18 and earlier. New is that you can delete the selected item from history if you press the delete key.

Another Summer of Code for GNOME will end soon. As you probably know my task was to write a DVB Manager.

As mentioned in last week's report, I concentrated on an assistant to setup DVB cards and a preferences GUI to create new device groups and edit existing ones. Currently, there are three GUI applications. One to manage timers, one to manage devices and one to setup your cards. In the next couple of weeks I'm going to make those UIs nicer and merge all of them in one single application.

Last week my second DVB-T adapter arrived. Therefore, I was able to test whether recording on multiple devices that are part of the same group works. At first it didn't and I had to do quite some refactoring to get it working. Nevertheless, it finally works.

I didn't do much last week. Partly, because bug 539969 still keeps me from continuing working on the EPG part.

Unfortunately, I couldn't continue working on the EPG part. Instead I worked some other things:

Last week wasn't as productive as I wished. Nevertheless, here's my report.

Thanks to Jürg's awesome work all D-Bus interfaces are working and can be accessed by other applications. Except, Manager's GetRegisteredDevices method which doesn't work because of bug 540730.

I was able to complete all tasks I wanted to last week. The Scanner works completely for DVB-T and supposably for DVB-S and DVB-C. The Scanner contains a new method WriteChannelsToFile, too.

In addition, I started work on the EPGScanner that scans in fixed intervals for EPG data on each channel. Currently, the data is just read and stored in the Channel it belongs to ordered by time. Still missing are:

Nothing big feature-wise has been added. Instead, I cleaned up the code a little bit and fixed some bugs.