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February 12, 2009

First release candidate for Opale

by Thomas Capricelli — Categories: Gentoo, KDE — Tags: opale, portage — Leave a comment

One of my pet projects (A simple bank account manager focused on graphs and planning) is about to reach 1.0. This first release candidate has been tested on several Linux systems and Windows. It can compile against KDE, but Qt is enough. (no, i have not yet tested with KDE/Windows…).

So far, the only big problem with this RC is that translations are broken. This will be fixed in -rc2, to be released soon.

By the way, I could use some help with:

getting a logo
translations
writing an ebuild for gentoo
compilation/tests on MacOS X
compilation using msvc on Windows

If you feel like you could help me, please contact me.

Homepage : http://www.freehackers.org/Opale
Development page (compilation, bug reports..) : http://labs.freehackers.org/projects/show/opale
Screenshots : http://www.freehackers.org/Opale:screenshots

November 13, 2008

Yet another activity graph : how often do you emerge ?

by Thomas Capricelli — Categories: Admin, Gentoo — Tags: activity, portage — Leave a comment

Really, I seem to be fond of activity graphs those days. I have reused part of this previous code, but this time I parse the emerge log file to display the activity of your successful emerges. Think of it as a graphical view of ‘genlop -l’.

Those examples are the emerge activity of my two main computers.

The current code does the bare minimum, and I need to add at least command line options for

logfile to use (currently/default : /var/log/emerge.log)
filename to create (currently/default : activity.png)
width/height of the image (currently/default : 800×600)

The usage is straightforward:

orzel@berlioz EmergeActivity% ./EmergeActivity.py

There are 9896 emerge completed successfully

Created the file 'activity.png'

orzel@berlioz EmergeActivity% xv activity.png &

You can grab the source (browse, tarballs, mercurial clone, even RSS) from :

http://sources.freehackers.org/EmergeActivity/

November 2, 2008

Activities gallery

by Thomas Capricelli — Categories: Admin, Django, Gentoo, KDE, Linux kernel — Tags: activity, gcc, mercurial, octave, portage, sage, xemacs, xen — 3 Comments

While developing my recently released activity mercurial extension (and here too), I did a lot of tests on some quite famous/big projects. I’ve found the results to be quite interesting and decided to put up this gallery. Are you interested in the history of commits for kde, linux, django, portage(software), and others?

warning : this is just for fun (copyright Linus Torvalds), I’m perfectly aware that the number of commits is a very bad indicator for development.

The gallery : http://labs.freehackers.org/projects/hgactivity/wiki/Gallery

September 13, 2008

Konqueror web shortcut for gentoo packages

by Thomas Capricelli — Categories: Gentoo, KDE — Tags: konqueror, portage, web shortcut — 9 Comments

You’re going to think that I’m some kind of web shortcut maniac, but I really think I’m not.

I’m using http://packages.larrythecow.org a lot, and only today did I think about creating a konqueror web shortcut to get there faster. I’ve called it ‘gt’ (for gentoo, yes, i’m that lazy), and the magic url thinguy is

http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=search&s=\{@}

Now I can type “gt:kdebase-meta” in konquy or alt-f2 and feel ashamed in front of my debian friends whom I’ve been laughing at so much in the past because debian is slow to catch up with kde releases.

Today, several weeks after KDE 4.1 has been released, and 10 days after KDE 4.1.1 has been released, there is still no official ebuilds for the kde 4.1 branch. I know there are overlays, there are some heated bug-reports, blogs and even some unofficial status page about it, but still, kde 4.1 is not in gentoo, and it makes me feel really sad.

Yes, I know, it’s free software and I can do it myself. And then?

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