Author Archives: Oliver Sauder
Diodon with instant paste for testing
The instant paste feature has finally landed into the Diodon trunk. With this feature there is now no need to press Ctrl+V after choosing a clipboard item (which you wanted to paste anyway ) Diodon does this now for you… … Continue reading
New Diodon release and how to disable unity lens or indicator
After a testing phase of two weeks and fixing the rough edges a new release 0.4.0 of Diodon is now available in the stable ppa. So if you want to get the new version with its new Unity Lens up … Continue reading
Call for testing: Unity lens for Diodon
The diodon unity lens has made it into the trunk and therefore is now available in the daily ppa. Before it will be released it needs intensive testing. So go for it and grab it. But before you start here … Continue reading
After updating to Natty: Why has Diodon stopped working?
The question has been raised why Diodon is not running anymore after updating from Maverick to Natty. If you have encountered the same problem I hope the following explanation will clear it up. So in Maverick Diodon is linked against … Continue reading
Diodon available for Lucid
As Diodon has some dependencies not available per default in Lucid there was so far no package for it. However as Lucid is a LTS version and some user would still like to use Diodon on their machine I have … Continue reading
Diodon: Looking for a designer
You might have heard about the Diodon project, a new clipboard manager for GNOME./Unity. No? If not so find more about it on the Lauchpad Project side. Diodon is a project aiming to integrate well into the GNOME and Unity … Continue reading
A new age
The frequency of posts has been pretty low in the last few months. However, there are many exciting things going on around esite.ch so I hope to get around more often to leave one or another message here. To accomplish … Continue reading
Global hotkeys with vala
The issue Whilst working on Diodon I needed to implement a global hotkey. After browsing the web and some source code I came up with the following solution. Get the code Here is a sample class to easily bind a … Continue reading
Easen use of svn switch with bash prompt
The issue svn switch can safe a lot of time when working in different branches as not all source code has to be checked out again. But well you know it: How fast does it happen that a file gets … Continue reading
PPA für Backports
Es kommt doch noch häufiger vor als einem lieb ist, das man eine neue Version einer Library oder Applikation benötigt, die erst im Ubuntu Entwicklungszweig vorhanden sind, aber nicht in der aktuellen Version. Von solchen Versionen mache ich dann oft … Continue reading
