Yet another open source blog ;-)

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

Markos — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:46:40 +0000

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 ;-)

sys-libs/freeipmi-1.0.4 testers wanted

Markos — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:20:18 +0000

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

Lightdm on Gentoo: Artwork needed

Markos — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:45:05 +0000

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 ;-)

Gentoo Proxy Maintainers project is now live!

Markos — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:17:31 +0000

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/

Where is Qt-4.8?

Markos — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:32:13 +0000

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

Gentoo Screenshot Contest 2011

Markos — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:57:49 +0000

Yes we are doing this again. In case you haven’t noticed it yet, we are running another screenshot competition this year. 28 days left before the deadline, so you have plenty of time to beautify your desktops :) More information can be found here[1].

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/2011-screenshot-contest.xml

Once upon a time…

Markos — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:51:00 +0000

there was a country, well known as Greece. Since June 29th 2011, Greece is a graveyard of human souls, dreams and hope

Police officers guarding the Greek Parliament

Police Officers surrounding the Greek Parliament

Queen Amalia Avenue

Syntagma Square