Berkano overlay news
Recent changes in berkano overlay:
- I cleaned out some cruft, packages that in my opinion weren’t useful anymore
- I removed the older versions of hitchhiker-sources, because the kernel devs recommend using only the latest, for security reasons
- I added a live git ebuild for Arora, the new Qt4 WebKit browser
Arora needs >=qt-4.4.0, which you can get here as a tarball for use in your local overlay (if it breaks anything, you get to keep the pieces), or from one of the other overlays that provide up-to-date or development snapshots of Qt4. I’ve been told qt-4.4.0 release should be added (as hardmasked) to portage later this week.
I’m actually looking into adding more Qt4 based applications, either to the overlay or portage. My goal would be to get together an as complete as possible desktop using just (or mainly at least) Qt4 programs. The most obvious missing part is a Window Manager. Cutebox was a promising project, but has been abandoned even before its first release. Anyone that would resurrect it and bring it to a useful form, would win a guaranteed spot in my personal Hall of Heroes.
14 May 08 at 10:46 | arora, overlay, qt4, webkit
well kwin svn is based on Qt4.4 why is that not a good candidate ?
As to my Qt4 desktop idea, I probably should have clarified I would like to keep KDE4 out of it, and keep it more lightweight. Think of it as more a kind of fluxbox or xfce idea. Also, KDE4 is still in a practically unusable state (many features missing, frequent crashes).
Recent KDE 4.0 versions are pretty stable (4.0.3+). Try out the Fedora KDE4 live cd, you will be impressed.