libnautilus-burn-python, aka nautilusburn python module, is going to be integrated in gnome-python-extras's next release: 2.9.3. What does this means? Serpentine, in it's next release will depend on gnome-python-extras and gst-python. While gnome-python-extras is a difficult dependencie now, because it depends on nautilus-cd-burner 2.9.4 and next totem's release, but in a near future it won't be, and that's where Serpentine points to :) On other things, I'm on "vacations" aka exams season, I don't have to go to school and have to make a hell of an effort to study (and not hack on Python and C). One thing that appealed me lately is Bug Hunting... Maybe, after Serpentine, gnome-ppx and speedtouch-suite have a new release i'll do that :P Finally, to create libnautilus-burn-python's new release I had to develop over a gnome 2.9 platform. While this was a pretty daunting task to do, now it isn't, and you know why? Ubuntu should be the official gnome/gtk developer's OS of choice :P Just a simple s/warty/hoary/ on it's /etc/apt/sources.list, followed by an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade did the work. The only problems I felt were:

• NVidia stopped working, even with an AMD's kernel (aka k7 suffix), had to get the official ones.
• Had to do apt-get --purge install xorg-server to install the new official xserver
• UFO: Aftermath stopped working on cedega, but not on wine, I think it's due to kernel 2.10 kernel... maybe I need to get back to the 2.8 one. Or just use wine.
• wine has a bug which, when in fullscreen, doesn't show the mouse cursor, so I had to start playing in borring windowed mode :(
• glxgears crasges (?!?!?), backtrace points to some nvidia .so

On the plus side, the transition from xfree to xorg was flawless and smooth (didn't even noticed I had a new X). To install nvidia I just had to apt-get the appropriate kernel headers. GNOME 2.9 is cool but there aren't many novelties, gedit is more coder friendly and the menu has changed to better (we now have a places entry, which shows your computer, bookmarks, recent documents and so on. And there's also a very cool shared folders option, which works with webdav, nfs and smb! The other very cool changes are on gtk+ 2.6, which for the developer is really more powerfull, and for the user it's friendlier ( ie typeahead on lists)