Schedule: Catwalk sessions

Everything you wanted to know to develop Gnome applications in C++ with Gtkmm, without being afraid to ask. Read more.

Have you ever had a mobile phone where you have been annoyed by some of the functionality and thought: "If only I had the source code I could have fixed this annoying thing"? Then you are not alone. The phone Neo FreeRunner runs a completely free operating system called OpenMoko. Read more.

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces on top of OpenGL and OpenGL ES with a GObject based API. Read more.

Elisa Media Center is now going further by not only being an easy to use media center well integrated with the GNOME desktop but also a platform for writing multimedia services with beautiful and highly dynamic user interfaces. Read more.

GEGL graph based image processing framework. Read more.

The Telepathy real-time communications framework (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/) is a rapidly developing project to integrate messaging, presence, voice, video and collaborative functionality into your favourite device or desktop environment. This talk will focus on how to use Telepathy to make collaborative applications which can talk to each other between users' desktops. Read more.

Conduit is a Synchronization application for the GNOME desktop. This talk will describe the current capabilities of Conduit, focusing on its support for mobile devices (such as cellular phones), online web services (online photo galleries as an example), and GNOME desktop applications. A short introduction on using Conduit from your application will also be given. Read more.

Wanted: modern, animated user-interfaces that are fun to use and pleasing to look at. Limitations: gtk toolkit design, maintaining backwards-compatibility. Solution: Moonlight. Read more.

A walkthrough of how to seamlessly integrate instant messaging and VoIP features into GNOME desktop applications in a few lines of Python code using the Telepathy framework, and some points on why this might be a good idea in the first place. Read more.

This talk will introduce Wizbit, a GVFS-based distributed revisioning file system for the masses. Read more.

Farsight 2 is a collection is GStreamer elements to build VoIP enabled applications. It handles all of the streaming side, which leaving the application free to do the signalling. It implements advanced features such as dynamic codec negotiation, multi-party conferences, full lip synchronization. Read more.

The talk will focus on the next generation of Ekiga and present its features in terms of VoIP, and IP Telephony features. A sexy demonstration will be organised and show the full power of Ekiga with software like Asterisk. Read more.

Frysk is an object-oriented event-driven model of an operation system, and set of tools targetted at enabling users to debug large scale multi-threaded applications. This talk will discuss the Frysk model and tools. Read more.

A fun look at the state of Bluetooth integration for our favourite desktop. Fun demos of things you didn't know were possible included! The Daily Mail calls it "goofy and painfully immature". Read more.

Lightning talks are short 5-min presentations... Read more.

SystemTap is a tool for gathering and investigating system-wide information about a running Linux system. SystemTap eliminates the tedious instrument, compile, reinstall, reboot sequence involved in data collection. Read more.

The GTK+ library has been updated so that it supports writing in even more scripts out-of-the-box. Such scripts include all precomposed Latin letters with combining marks (accents), Greek Polytonic (Ancient Greek), special symbols and many more. We describe what's new and how to actually use it. Read more.

Exempi, XMP metadata handling. Read more.

libopenraw, a library to deal with Digital Camera RAW files. Read more.

Banshee has wowed people with some great new features over the last months; We will demo one or more features that you haven't seen but is sure to excite you! Read more.

Mango Lassi Input Sharing allows users to share mice, keyboards, and the clipboard transparently and automatically on the network. As a reimplementation of software like Synergy and X2X it tries to "do things right" by using all the newest, fanciest GNOME and freedesktop.org technologies. Read more.

UPnP is slowly becoming a part of everyday life, especially when it comes to home entertainment systems. GUPnP is an implementation of UPnP that intends to be simple yet powerful and is specifically targeted for GNOME and embedded environments like Nokia internet tablets. Read more.

Are you a developer trying to create a useful application and moreover you want it looks great? Now it is possible and you have not got to worry to deal with complex routines to add characteristics like transparency, canvas support, easy layout, easy to write and maintain. All this and more is what the gdesklets project is for and I am going to show you how to do it and how you can help too. Read more.

gtranslator has been for a long time the standard translation tool for GNOME. After some years with a slowdown in its development, as new maintainers we are heavily working in recovering it as a modern translation tool for GNOME. In this talk, we will explain and demo the work we have done, the tasks in progress, and the future plans, and will discuss the roadmap with the community. Read more.

In this lightning talk I'll present the next generation digital photography software for Gnome. Read more.

This is a lightning talk about the development of Vagalume, its features and some ideas for the future. Vagalume is a lightweight Last.fm client. It is based on Gnome and works in any standard PC, but it's specially designed for the Maemo platform, the one used by the Nokia 770/N800/N810 Internet Tablets. Vagalume was finalist in the 2008 edition of the Mobile Rules! competition. Read more.

Presenting tidy, a library provides higher level widgets and GUI building blocks on top of the clutter basics. Read more.

We've just released version 1.0 of Banshee, a music and video management app for GNOME. With fast importing, powerful searching, smart playlists, podcast support (including video and streaming), a play queue, last.fm radio streaming, and device support, Banshee balances a powerful, integrated media management feature set with an elegant interface. Read more.

The Easy Publish and Consume library can be used as key/value store published to the network, using encryption, authentication and service discovery. This lightning talk demonstrates its use in Glom and Totem. Read more.

Linux is increasingly being used in portable devices with unusual hardware features. This presentation describes how ACCESS has achieved a variety of "eye-candy" features, such as GTK widgets that float translucently over an actively playing video, by modifying the kernel, X11, and the GDK/GTK rendering stack to take advantage of the three-overlay architecture in current XScale CPUs. Read more.

This presentation aims to deliver a in-depth insight into the design and implementation of the new Input/Output infrastructure in GNOME 2.22. GIO is part of glib and consists of a general purpose streaming API and the virtual filesystem layer (vfs). The standalone GVfs module provides the backends for the virtual filesystem, i.e. the implementation of not only but foremost remote file access. Read more.

Novell is carrying a new project related to accessibility (technology needed to open or improve the use of software for people with disablities, or just improve the usability experience). This session will present what's going on there... Read more.