ken’s blog

Made our anual visit to Ganyard Hill Farms today. As always, had a blast and the kids didn’t want to leave.

Drew decided he had to actually lift a pumpkin

I think I can…

Yeah man, I knew I could!

Now this is useful, a tool to diff your gconf settings and what is default. Very useful for a packager!

http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2006/10/17/gconf-diff-tool/

I packaged up some banshee plugins, the alarm, beagle and show track on change plugins. You can find them in foresight.rpath.org@fl:1-contrib (which is in your path if you are using Foresight). For info check out http://banshee-project.org/PluginRepository

sudo conary update banshee-alarm-plugin
sudo conary update banshee-beagle-plugin
sudo conary update banshee-showtrackonchange-plugin

The new version of this impressive little tool features useability improvements, major code rewrite (now using MooTools and objects), graphic changes and bugfixes.
As always, this lib provides a simple way to install great looking slideshow or showcases to your website, in less than 20kb of javascript code.

This is the library used to display the screenshots on the Foresight website, we love it!

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Jon has integrated his smoothslideshow stuff into our Screenshot page. Check it out, it is pretty slick.

I am very pleased to announce Foresight 0.9.8.2. This is an incremental release to the 0.9.8 series. Xorg now includes AIGLX support by default, beryl (compiz fork) will be coming real soon. GNOME has been updated to 2.16.1.

Other updates:

• glib=2.12.4
• gutenprint=5.0.0
• raa=1.0.6
• gimp=2.3.11
• gnome-sudoku=0.6.1
• gtk=2.10.6
• pango=1.14.5
• pygobject=2.12.2
• pygtk=2.10.2
• evolution=2.8.1
• MPlayer-codecs=20060611
• brasero=0.4.91
• last-exit=3
• mono=1.1.17
• Mesa=6.5.1
• gnome-cups-manager=0.31
• glipper=0.89-1-1

Please file issues at https://issues.foresightlinux.org, they are appreciated!

The Foresight website has been rebuilt using Django. The new site looks pretty similar, but is really a big step forward for us.

For starters, the planet is back. The new planet is actually running Feedjack, a django based feed aggregator.

There is also now a screenshot interface. Currently it still looks similar to the old site. But it is completely integrated into django. There are categories and versions associated with the screenshots to help keep things organized. We also plan to add an interface for users to contribute screenshots.

Another planned feature is a forum. It isn’t done yet, but Jon has been working hard putting this all together for us. Thanks Jon!

I had a random private message on freenode today, gave me a laugh.

Foresight 1.0, just do it!

I assume this is in reference to António Meireles’ post today about the impending 0.9.8.2 release. If only “just do it” wasn’t trademarked.