Monthly Archives: October 2007

Another LinuxDay is gone

Posted by on October 28th, 2007 1 comment

And even this year, the Lin­ux­Day is gone. This year we attracted more than 400 people and, as the other years, it has been an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence!
So, thanks to all the vis­i­tors, to the LUG­Bari and to every­one else has con­tributed to make yes­ter­day a great day.

Addi­tion­ally, I pub­lished the slides of my yesterday’s pre­sen­ta­tion. If you’re inter­ested, you can freely down­load them, but please note that they’re writ­ten in ital­ian. You can found the PyGTK talk’s slides here, while the PyClutter’s slides can be found here (sources here and here).

An introduction to pyclutter (part three)

Posted by on October 22nd, 2007 8 comments

This tuto­r­ial is out­dated: it refers to ver­sion 0.4 of clut­ter that now is VERY old.

Last time we have seen how to draw the (maybe) most basic shape of clut­ter: the rec­tan­gles. We also posi­tioned them together in the stage, and said (in part one) that the stage is a spe­cial kind of container.

Today it’s time to explain better what groups are and how to use them, so I’ll intro­duce to you the Clut­ter­Group and the ClutterHBox/ClutterVBox.

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Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go home and have a heart attack

Posted by on October 7th, 2007 1 comment

The LinuxDay 2007It’s 2007. And it’s Octo­ber. And there’s the Lin­ux­Day this year too.
For those who doesn’t know, the Lin­ux­Day is a day where every LUG pro­mote Linux and the free soft­ware phi­los­o­phy to every­one who’s interested.

Last year I had a talk about Inkscape and the vec­to­r­ial graphic; this year, instead, I’ll hold two talks: an intro­duc­tion to PyGTK and an intro­duc­tion to PyClutter.

So, if you don’t have any­thing to do on Octo­ber 27th and you live near Bari, why don’t you join us in the LinuxDay?

(the title is a quote from a Tarantino’s film, do you like it?)

Beamer paragraph spacing

Posted by on October 5th, 2007 No comments

If you, like me, are about to hold a pre­sen­ta­tion and you’re writ­ing this pre­sen­ta­tion in LaTex (with beamer), and you want to change the para­graph spac­ing (or the so called inter­line), all you have to do is to put this line some­where in your document:

\setlength{\parskip}{10pt plus 1pt minus 1pt}

and after this line, all the para­graph will have the chosen inter­line (of course, you need to adjust the para­me­ters accord­ing to your needs).