May 23, 2020

I always saw this incomplete, half written draft about my experience applying to Outreachy internship, lying in one corner of my folder. At first I thought I should just delete it because I’m already done with the internship & I’ve already written my wrap-up post describing a little about my experience. But then I just couldn’t do it only.

March 03, 2020

Okay, the final day of my outreachy internship! :)

It’s a mixed kind of feeling. I’m happy that I managed to finish what I aimed in the beginning, but a little sad too, as this (internship) run will end tommorrow.

But there is this fact that Now, I am a part of GNOME Foundation, makes me the most happiest. This is the sole reason why I applied to Outreachy. I wanted...

January 08, 2020

Task for the week:

• Move the existing search-and-replace-bar widget functionality to the new redesigned overlay widget.

Progress of the day:

• This week started on a good note. I spent the first 2 days working on the final nitpicks for the UI of the widget.

• Today, I added CSS rules for creating a border around the “search entry and buttons grid”.

• Also, I corrected the...

January 04, 2020 [UPDATED]

Task I’d for the last 2 weeks:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project. [Half done] [Finally finished 🎉️]
  • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

Progress:

December 23, 2019

I didn’t write for the last 3 days of the last week. The reason being I was terribly occupied in finishing some impromptu work.

And now, I’m back here again with my daily writing. :)

Task for the week:

• Read about Gtk Widgets and Layouts Properly.

  [finished]

Progress of the day:

• I finished reading the tutorials based on creating widgets and layouts from the official documentation.

  ...

December 18, 2019

Task for the week:

• Read about Gtk Widgets and Layouts Properly.

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.
  • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

    [ON_HOLD]

Progress of the day:

• Yesterday, I was not able to write, so, a little from the day. I...

December 16, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.
  • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

Progress of the day:

• A usual long day of struggle with the code (and even the build process and some Python script errors). Everything’s at the same level. No much progress today. But...

December 15, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.
  • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

Summary of the week:

It was a really productive week. I am almost done with the current tasks. I’ve finished replicating the wire-frame of gnome-builder’s search-and-replace-bar widget into the libdazzle-example application...

December 14, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.
  • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

Progress of the day:

• More progress today. I was able to run the application with the re-created widget files (though I can’t invoke the widget even now but there are no more...

December 13, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.
  • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

Progress of the day:

• Today was a highly productive day.

• For all these days, I was trying to re-create the search_and_replace_bar widget from gnome-builder but it...

December 12, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.
  • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

Progress of the day:

• Absolutely no progress for the day.
• I was having a work block (like the artists have art block). So, what I did was sleep and read about things...

December 11, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.
  • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

Progress of the day:

• It was again a day full of learning new things. Although, there is no tangible progress even now but certainly I’m taking a step or two ahead everyday.

  ...

December 09, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.

Progress of the day:

• I’d the first weekly meeting with my mentor, danigm[http://danigm.net], today. I presented what I did throughout the first week. Then, We had a discussion where he helped me solving the doubts from the last week’s tasks and some other things (from the project)...

December 09, 2019

Task for the week:

• Understand the structure and working of libdazzle’s example application.

  [Finished]

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.

Progress of the day:

• I finished setting up and building the libdazzle’s example application. What I learnt from the process:
  • How to setup a GNOME project structure from scratch.
  • How to write meson.build files...

December 07, 2019

Task for the week:

• Understand the structure and working of libdazzle’s example application.

Progress of the day:

• Going slow and steady now. :)

• I finished going through the flatpak’s Getting started documentation.

• Next, I have started with Quickstart guide for Using Meson. Will take some more time to finish (and understad).

December 06, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.

  (Hopefully, I will continue it sometime in the next week)

• Understand the structure and working of libdazzle’s example application.

Progress of the day:

Today was good. Fortunately, I wasted (almost) no time in solving application build errors. Besides, I even started writing actual code which didn’t...

December 05, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.

Progress of the day:

• Today was an extremely long day (even I am still working and it’s 23:47 here). There is not much actual progress from the day though, but I definitely learnt a hell lot of new things. And there are even more left for me to...

December 04, 2019

Task for the week:

• Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.

Progress of the day:

• Today was a slightly more productive day. I was able to fix yesterday’s build-environment errors early in the morning itself, so the rest of the day was saved from all that hassle and I was free to tweak the source-code now....

December 3, 2019

Okay, finally the Outreachy Internship has started! 🎉 🎉

For this very moment, nothing could make me happier for the fact that I earned this chance to pursue it under a very highly reputed Open Source project, the GNOME Foundation 🙂.

Soon, I will try to write a more detailed post thanking all the awesome people who have endlessly helped me being capable of reaching out to this milestone (and hopefully...