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Today I implemented a great idea from Federico: Helper to collect more info in bug-buddy. Just add

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-ExtraInfoScript=myscript

to you .desktop file or a

bugzilla:extra_info_script

entry in your .server file. When you application crahses bug-buddy will include the output of that script into the bug report. Some nice information that some applications would like to know:

• Totem: output of a typefind gst pipeline over the current playing media file
• gnome-volume-control: list of alsa devices
• Add your most wanted info here!

We are already telling the user that the data he is submiting could include some personal information and we are requesting him to review it, however we should never collect sensitive information as emails contents, contact lists, etc..

After coming back to Chile I went for a weekend to Berlin. My friend Luis is living there and also Mario did a little trip from Köln to Berlin. The funny thing is that it was supposed to be a surprise for Luis, but they parents were visiting him _the same_ weekend. So finally we managed to get dinner and stuff all togheter. The surprise for me was that Diamanda Galas was singing (she tours rarely) that Saturday on a church at Berlin!. We mamaged to get ticket, and I enjoyed it very very much. Quite impressive to see/listen to her live.

I am really proud of my friend Luis Carlos: he is hacking a wireless driver for the linux kernel for OLPC.I still remember when we went to Seville Guadec and our hacking action at Eurielec

During this week I had a severe sleep disorder, ending with this Friday not being able to sleep until 8 or 9am and then waking up at 17pm without hearing the alarm clock. Really bad :(

Finally I went to Tallinn on Saturday/Sunday. I really love that city. Nice coffeshops, nice shopping, nice restaurants and good Sushi!

No, the ending was the song of the week: Coin, Operated boy by Dresden dolls.

We are having nice talks and hacking sessions here in Talca. I did yesterday my presentation about GNOME past, present future. This evening g mariano is talking more about GNOME projects.On Saturday, during the GNOME day I'll talk about maemo. Nice people, nice place and nice food.

Xan has been measuring gtk+ performance on ARM using some different gtk+ flavours:

• maemo-gtk (2.6)
• stock gtk+ 2.10 + stock cairo
• gtk+ 2.10 patched to use XFT for text rendering
• gtk+ 2.10 + cairo patched to use the magic number tecnique for the fixed_from_double

Interesting results. Read it: Gtk+ Performance Measurement (I)