Heads up: How to set your default graphics engine in Qt-4.8.0

January 29, 2012 · Posted in Gentoo · 17 Comments

Since one hour ago, Qt-4.8.0 is in Gentoo portage tree. New major release so lots of new (or broken) stuff. The most important feature in this release is the integration of a new eselect module. This module will allow you to set your default graphics engine without the need to recompile Qt (x11-libs/qt-gui to be precise) from scratch. So, provided you have qt-gui-4.8.0 installed, you should be able to use the eselect module as follows:

hwoarang@mystical ~$ eselect qtgraphicssystem list

Available Qt Graphics Systems:
 [1] native
 [2] opengl
 [3] raster *

(note: if you have x11-libs/qt-openvg installed, one more option should be available)

Simply select your graphics system of preference, and then logout and login again.

hwoarang@mystical ~$ eselect qtgraphicssystem set 2
Setting opengl as your active Qt Graphics System... done
Please logout for changes to take effect.

Thanks to Alex(wired) for the eselect module implementation.
Enjoy ;-)

Tags: Gentoo, qt

sys-libs/freeipmi-1.0.4 testers wanted

October 22, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · Comment

I know I haven’t written anything for a month or so. This post is merely a public request for gentoo users who use sys-libs/freeipmi to jump in and test the new version otherwise freeipmi will lose the stable keywords and everything that depends on that will be reverted back to ~arch tree soon. If you do not want this to happen, come to the freeipmi bug[1] and post your testing results.

[1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364485

Tags: amd64, Gentoo

Lightdm on Gentoo: Artwork needed

September 18, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · 8 Comments

I recently pushed lightdm to Gentoo portage tree. I was in a good mood so I decided to create a Gentoo specific configuration ( the one you get if gtk and branding flags are enabled )

However, if you consider yourself an artist, you can send me your own lightdm-{gtk,qt}-greeter.conf + background image along with a screenshot and if you are lucky enough, I will use your own configuration on future lightdm releases ;-)

Tags: Gentoo

Gentoo Proxy Maintainers project is now live!

August 24, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · 5 Comments

As I promised, one of my goals this year is to create a more efficient ebuild maintenance channel between users and developers. The outcome is a new project called “Proxy maintainers“[1]. This is basically an e-mail alias including all developers who want to act as proxy maintainers. If you are a user, grab your favorite orphaned package[2] and contact us to review it and commit it on your behalf. This project has the potential to expand even further, e.g. have a single overlay were we can work together on maintainer-needed@ ebuilds before we push them on portage tree. This is a fresh shiny project so ideas are more than welcomed ;). If you haven’t heard before about ‘proxy-maintainers’ have a look on my previous blog posts[3]

[1]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml

[2]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml

[3]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/tag/proxy-maintainer/

Tags: Gentoo, proxy-maintainer

Where is Qt-4.8?

August 13, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · Comment

It’s been more than a year since I wrote something about Qt. This is mainly because I retired myself from the team and focused on other teams that needed urgent attention. However, lately I had some spare time to contribute to Qt again and update 4.9999 ebuilds to a working state. Furthermore, I pushed some initial ebuilds for Qt-4.8.0_beta1 and Qt-4.8.9999. Both sets are merged successfully on my testing boxes so they should by ready for you to test them. Qt-creator-2.3.0_rc is located in qting-edge overlay as well, but because it requires >=Qt-4.7.4 it makes no sense to commit it to portage. So if you want to use it, then you have to use >=Qt-4.7.9999 ebuilds :)

If you have any problems, please use forums[1] to report them or open a bug on https://bugs.gentoo.org.

[1]http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-730187.html

Tags: Gentoo, qt, qting-edge