Gnome Prereleaseness
It took me half of the night and all morning, but I managed to apply James Willcox's patches for the Gnome wireless applet. This was not an easy feat. Much of how this thing works right now is very Fedora-specific. Running under Gentoo, I can scan for stations, but I cannot switch them or otherwise make use of the applet. Nothing overly serious, with time the bits and pieces will be ironed out, and this patch will become very popular. For now it is a step in the right direction. And running Gnome 2.5 unstable series is fun. Much of the trouble was caused by the Orinoco driver being unable to enter scan mode, patch available here.

Spent the other half of the day trying to figure out GConf. It's a lot more complicated than I thought, with schemas and all. Celestia cannot have schemas, because the autoconf macros it requires will break for the KDE guys, I believe. But I should be able to get around using just key-value pairs and building a little more intelligence into the program. It will be tricky, since I don't want to break plain GTK compatibility, but hopefully doable.

Other business: the puppy's second tooth fell out today, only a couple left until the sharp ones come out. Going skiing tomorrow at Mont Ste-Marie.