Bits by Ben » juffed http://ben.liveforge.org a Gentoo Linux geek blogging about free software and technology Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:44:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Arora and other additions to portage http://ben.liveforge.org/2008/07/08/arora-and-other-additions-to-portage http://ben.liveforge.org/2008/07/08/arora-and-other-additions-to-portage#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:14:47 +0000 Ben http://ben.liveforge.org/?p=22 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).

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