Arora and other additions to portage

Posted on 8 Jul 08 at 00:14 | Tagged as , ,

As some of you may have noticed, I recently added a few more packages to portage. First of all I want to mention Arora, the Qt4 WebKit browser for which I already have a live git ebuild in berkano overlay. I am making snapshot ebuilds now, about twice a month, to make it easy for Gentoo users to keep up to date with its development. These ebuilds are hardmasked in portage at the moment, as Arora depends on Qt-4.4 which is currently still hardmasked. As soon as Arora makes an official release and Qt-4.4 will be unmasked, I will make an ebuild available for ~arch users. We’ll have to wait till Qt-4.5 though to use plugins like flash. (Users prefering GTK+ might want to take a look at Midori.)

I also added a few other Qt4 applications: QtScrobbler, a GUI for easily submitting a scrobbler log from your portable media player to Last.fm; and JuffEd, a nice editor with tabs and syntax hilighting, based on QScintilla. Lastly, I added SubtitleComposer, a KDE3 application for working with text-based subtitles (srt or ssa for example).

If there are any more applications hiding in our bugzilla, or in obscure corners of the ‘net, that you believe deserve to be in Gentoo’s portage tree, let me or another developer know. Personally my interests lie in the fields of sound, video, fonts and miscellaneous desktop apps (and, as you may have noticed, a growing preference for Qt4 based programs).

5 comments

  1. Jason on 8 Jul 08 at 06:30:

    Hey I’m an arora dev. Thought I should point out that

    EGIT_REPO_URI=”git://github.com/icefox/arora.git”

    is incorrect. Icefox’s repository is no longer the main one. The line should instead read:

    EGIT_REPO_URI=”git://github.com/Arora/arora.git”

  2. Ben on 8 Jul 08 at 10:07:

    Thanks! I’ll correct it.

  3. Sarah White on 20 Jul 08 at 01:56:

    Keep up the great work bringing projects like this onto the gentoo portage tree. I’ll be learning how to use “git” repositories myself just to keep up to date with changes for arora. I just love it: a very promising / fast / small-footptint web browser and that’s perfect for what I’m trying to build… — Kuzetsa =^_^=

  4. Ben on 20 Jul 08 at 14:19:

    Indeed, Arora is a very promising project, Sarah! I’m really looking forward to an official release and the development of extensions. And of course for Qt-4.5, which will make plugins possible. I expect it to become a good Firefox replacement.

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