In the last post from this series I’ve shown how to show some info about the UDisks daemon, now lets search for devices. This first method that we’ll see is the EnumeraDevices >>> import dbus >>> >>> bus = dbus.SystemBus() >>> proxy = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.UDisks",...
Some time ago, at Planet Gnome, I started to stumble upon some news about a PyGTK deprecation. According to that last link, PyGTK 2.24 was it’s last release. This module is being replaced by GObject Introspection, or how it’s being called around here: PyGI. For those who want some more info about...
This is another great presentation given by Doug Hellmann, from the blog series PyMOTW (Python Module Of The Week). This presentation is a quick overview from the blog series, which is a tour of the Python standard library through short examples. Modules covered in this presentation:
Yesterday, April 7th, finally Gnome 3.0 arrived. As the staff of the Gnome was always blogging about all the recent development, we did not have many surprises beyond what we already knew. Beyond that, there was an update at the project web page. Now it features some videos showing how to use the...
In the last post I’ve shown how to enumerate all storage devices connected to your PC using Python and UDisks. In this post I’ll show how to work with DeviceKit Disks interface. Fist lets read some documentations! The UDisks documentation is divided in five sections:
PyCon 2011 occurred on March 9th thought 17th in Atlanta, Georgia, and covered many interesting topics. The nice thing about PyCon is that all the lectures are available in this channel. There were some really nice lectures that I’d like to highlight. The first one is about Python IDEs and the...
Have you ever heard about MongoDB? If yes, you might know what a Document-Oriented Database is. In case you don’t know have any idea what I’m talking about, a Document-Oriented Database stores data in a semi-structured fashion while a Relational Database uses a rigid and highly strict structured...
Empathy is receiving a new and beautiful icon. Since the first release Empathy was using the Telepathy logo as an icon. According to this Bug Report, the old icon suffers from different problems like:
After many user requests Empathy, the default Gnome Instant Messaging client, in it’s version 3.0 will have a blocked/denied contact management management window..Below are some screenshots of this new feature: Some menu entry, at the chat menu and the contact context menu, were added also.
Recently I received some requests asking is USBManager will someday support DeviceKit/UDev, since HAL is officially deprecated. After some researches I retook this application development. During the research I found out some mismatching informations and a lack of examples, so I decided to post...
