Now I don’t claim to be a designer, my hopes with this theme is to create something that I like and won’t make your eyes bleed if you stare at it too long.  The goals I had in mind when working on this was a clean, minimal design that incorporated curves, I wanted curves because the current theme is all straight lines and right angles.

Currently I have completed a mock-up which can be found at mlowen.com/mockup and is currently filled with dummy data from this site, if you have any feedback it would be appreciated.

The footage is originally from Michael Bay’s website, I’m also giving a link to the Seibertron story as well because there are a lot of still shots there.  Hopefully later tonight I should be making another post about more coding related stuff.

Edit (~approx 5:50pm NZ): Well I took the video off of this post because I didn’t have permission to show it, which is a bugger but meh.  You can see the footage either here or here.

Edit 2 (6:10pm NZ): It would seem that the official versions of the video are being pulled from everywhere seibertron no longer can show it and there is no sign of it anywhere on Michael Bay’s site. luckily though I found it on youtube, who knows how long this one is going to last though.

void load_highlightable_text(Glib::ustring file_name, Glib::RefPtr<gtksourceview::SourceBuffer> buffer)
{
	Glib::RefPtr<gio::File> fp = Gio::File::create_for_uri(file_name);
 
	char *raw;
	gsize read_bytes;
	std::string e_tag;
 
	fp->load_contents(raw, read_bytes, m_e_tag);
 
	Glib::ustring buf = raw;
 
	buffer->begin_not_undoable_action();
	buffer->set_text(buf);
	buffer->end_not_undoable_action();
 
	// Retrieve the mime type of the file.
	Glib::RefPtr<gio::FileInfo> info = fp->query_info();
	Glib::ustring mime_type = Gio::content_type_get_mime_type(info->get_content_type());
 
	// variables needed for getting the language
	Glib::RefPtr<gtksourceview::SourceLanguageManager> manager = gtksourceview::SourceLanguageManager::create();
	Glib::RefPtr<gtksourceview::SourceLanguage> language;
 
	std::vector<glib::ustring> lang_ids = manager->get_language_ids();
	std::vector<glib::ustring> mime_types;
 
	// Cycle through all available languages matching the first one that will highlight the given mime type
	for(std::vector<glib::ustring>::iterator i = lang_ids.begin(); i != lang_ids.end(); i++) {
		language = manager->get_language(*i);
 
		if(language) {
			mime_types = language->get_mime_types();
 
			for(std::vector<glib::ustring>::iterator j = mime_types.begin(); j != mime_types.end(); j++) {
				if(*j == mime_type) {
					buffer->set_language(language);
					buffer->set_highlight_syntax(true);
					return;
				}
			}
		}
	}
 
	return;
}

If anyone knows of a more sane way to do this please tell me as what I have currently looks bloody horrible to me.

But every cloud has a silver lining, this one was I got me a new desktop computer, zeddicus.  It’s a 3 Ghz Intel core 2 duo with 4 Gigs of ram, unfortunately I don’t game much anymore so I couldn’t justify buying a new graphics card so it’s using the GeForce 7950 GT from spidey.

All in all I’m very happy with my and a little sad to see my old machine die after having it so long.

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