After a course having to program in Java for several uni subjects, now I can happily remove java from my system :-))

$ sudo rm -r /opt/java

In my last post I talked about my cpufreq-applet plans for the current release cycle. Finally I've rewritten most of the applet and here are the results so far:

• Rewrite cpufreq selector popup: done (Fixed bugs #336449, #338557)
• Use libcpufreq from cpufrequtils: almost done. At the moment libcpufreq is used only in the monitor, but I'll use it also in the selector soon.

GTK+ is using evince as a previewer in the new printing stuff. Great!. I'm working on a preview mode for evince available through the command line. I've added other command line options like --fullscreen and --presentation (fixes bug #317031) too.

There are still some problems. Right now, the printing dialog is closed when you click on preview and evince is launched. Matthias Clasen has proposed to add a print button in evince toolbar so that the user just click on it and the document is sent to the printer. IMO this approach has several problems: first of all, you can't go back and change the print settings because the print dialog has disappeared. In addition, we have to provide a way to send the print settings from the dialog to evince which is not so easy to do. I think all of these problems could be solved if we don't close the print dialog when clicking on preview and not allowing to print from evince when it's in preview mode. What do you think?

The new dbus stuff is in cvs head now!!! I haven't tried it out yet, but I'll do it as soon as I finish the exams. Garnacho has open a wiki page where he explains how to get it working.

After some time without hacking because of the exams I've been working again on my project (DeTraS). I'm happy with the progress :-)