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While being at WWDC I took a Monday off just after Keynote and drove to Googleplex in Mountain View. I had a pleasure to visit Google and meet with Leslie Hawthorn Project Manager for Google Summer of Code :-) I had a really great time there. Thank You for that opportunity. After a tour and [...]


Sounds strange, but I did forget about my photos from last year Google Hamburg visit. So today I decided to finally send them to Flickr. After Google Summer of Code 2006, Google was organizing “after GSoC meetings” at Google offices around the world. The nearest one from Wrocław was Hamburg and I decided to go [...]


Yesterday I was doing some research about dmg format and all day was full of graphic work just to bring a nice looking disk image icon and folder view.
I have always been curious how to make dmg images. Well it’s not so hard, you can use Disk Utility the simpler way or hdiutil the harder [...]


I made some GUI improvements.
Support for applications logos:
There is a new <Image> tag in the xml file for each package that has logo (ex: “<Image id=”logo”>Firefox.png</Image>“). All the applications logos images should be placed in /bin/AppsLogos folder. That’s where MacLibre’s parser looks for them.
Here’s a little flash demo how it really looks like. (Thanks to [...]


There’s a lot going on in MacLibre coding world since my last post :-)
I will start with bug fix mentioned in my last post:

AbiWord is now up to date (2.4.4 version) and DmgContainer has been extended to handle dmg.gz archives like AbiWord’s one,
after talking with my mentor Pierre-Jean Coundert we decided that we will remove [...]