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 icon 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 - 10:46 | , , , and | 6 Comments

  • Via LWN.net and flors, Ari Jaaksi's keynote on Nokia's vision for the role of open source: "We participate in many open source activities, such as Gnome, Debian, Linux, Mozilla and WebKit browsers and so forth. We plan to increase our involvement there. We believe open source is a key strategy to create exciting devices and services." I'm very interested in what they are going to do with Qt and WebKit. | , and | (1)
  • Qt 4.4, of which a beta was just released, has the exiting new webkit module (the rendering engine behind Safari, based on KDE's KHTML). As a demo, one of the developers has made a browser. This could grow into a very interesting project, so I'll certainly be following it! | , and | (1)

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