There is a nice tool which allows you to autocomplete email addresses in mutt by making use of the contacts stored in the evolution data server of the GNOME desktop. The small helper programme was originally written by Sertac Yildiz and was updated recently to the latest EDS API by Paul W. Frields.

The script adds a new action to todo.sh, the todo.txt command line client, which allows to open documents referenced in a todo item. If more than one document is available a small menu will be shown. This allows you to easily acces documents that are required to accomplish the task.

To improve my task management workflow with the todo.txt command line tool I wrote a small helper called mutt2todotxt. It converts a mail from mutt into a todo.txt item and adds it to the list of open items. It will automatically include the sender, subject, labels and the unique message id to the todo item.

Finally the Python 3 port of aptdaemon is ready for testing! Thanks to Barry Warsaw, Colin Watson and Martin Pitt for advice, support and code. So we are getting a step closer to shipping Python 3.2 only by default in Ubuntu Quantal 12.10.

This will be perhaps my last posting on this blog since I decided to move to Diaspora. Right, the new social thing that has not really taken off yet.

Tired of typing in your super long and super secure laptop password every time your screensaver activates at home? There is a solution: dahoam. Dahoam is the Bavarian word for being at home.

Sometimes you just feel like a fool - or the fool of all fools. Especially if you have been pointed to a security vulnerability - in your own code…

Today is the second day of the cross distro app-installer mini-conference here in Nuremberg.

For a number of reasons, I’ve recently set up a new OpenPGP key, and will be transitioning away from my old one.

Finally sessioninstaller has left the status of vapoware! Sessioninstaller provides the missing link to use the PackageKit session API with aptdaemon.

This blog post is about the recent work done in aptdaemon - the backend used by Ubuntu’s software-center to install/remove packages.

Thanks to all the people who made FOSDEM 2010 possible!

I am glad to announce aptdaemon: It is a DBus controlled and PolicyKit using package management daemon build on python-apt.

Canonical/Ubuntu now has got a professional brand marketing.

Recently I added support for asynchronous operations to the Python client of PackageKit. And on top of this a set of PyGTK widgets which make using PackageKit quite comfortable. The code is part of today’s 0.3.10 release.

Today Jochen and I hold two sessions about the translation process of the German team and Rosetta. Unluckily my session was first and it seems that I draw a too pessimistic picture of Rosetta and the problems it enforces to translators. So Jochen had to a talk in front of a quite small group and did not recieve the attention which his talk should have got. Sorry.

Jochen Skulj and I are doing an introduction talk to Ubuntu translations and especially the German speaking team at this year’s Ubucon which will happen this weekend. See http://ubucon.de/index.php/programm

The APT backend for PackageKit has made a lot of progress recently in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit.Highlights of the 0.3.x series are:

I retired from the German Ubuntu translation team. I already stopped translating some time ago and it was getting harder and harder for me to find the motivation and time to work on the coordnation of the team. So it was time for a clear cut. The troubles of an Ubuntu translator are well known and documented, so I won’t complain here again.

This tool collection wants to help Ubuntu translators in their daily work. If you have ever aksed one of the following questions, u-t-t could provide you an answer: In which package can I translate this message/dialog? What is the difference between these two po files? How can I access the translation page of a package in a faster way compared to clicking through the whole website tree or manipulating the url? Where can I get the automatically updated language packs?