Still Downloading…
Ack! I’m still downloading Slackware via BitTorrent…I also have a bunch of bad CDs :(. My downloads are going real sloow (1.4KB/sec) and my uptime is
20:26:13 up 2 days, 1:42, 1 user, load average: 0.70, 0.77, 0.73
.
C’mon, join the torrent! My ISP’s gonna hate me…I’ve uploaded 3.0GB in this session and downloaded 1.8 GB. I’m annoyed, sorry.
— [HALT]
OK, I got that overwith. I’ve been hacking on the GTK+ source (I already hate it) today trying to figure out how the save/open dialogs work. I want to make GTK/Gnome apps use the same dialogs that KDE ones do. The new GTK file chooser is even worse that the old one, if you ask me. Also, the GTK file chooser code is a total mess–I’m used to the OO KDE which is really clean. You need to call a million functions to get a dialog:
/* Filters */
filter = gtk_file_filter_new ();
gtk_file_filter_set_name (filter, _("All Files"));
gtk_file_filter_add_pattern (filter, "*");
gtk_file_chooser_add_filter (GTK_FILE_CHOOSER (filesel), filter);
/* Make this filter the default */
gtk_file_chooser_set_filter (GTK_FILE_CHOOSER (filesel), filter);
Ack.
/Ducks from angry Gnome overlords
— [HALT GEEK]
OK, got that over with. Went to the theatre production of Beauty and the Beast by the local funky household acting company (AAA–Actors of Alexander Avenue)…totally awesome! Thanks everybody (even none of you read this :P).
— [REENTER GEEK MODE]
I donno what to do about Icewater. I’ve halted work on my package manager system…do we really need another package management system–even if it is the answer to dependency hell (err…uh…sure, right)? Methinks not. The coolest thing I’ve seen is Autopackage. It’s trying to be a cross-distro package managment system (like InstallShield, except without the overhead of the self-contained installer, and it has deps resolution). Also, it trys to make the executables relocateable, which is really super. What’s the downside of it? It’s still alpha/beta, and isn’t really designed to create a distro with. That’s what RPM is for. Autopackage is what every Linux (/Ducks) program on the planet should provide binaries in. It’s awesome, but I donno… I’m thinking of building Icewater with RPM, then providing the Autopackage support code and going on a Autopackage rampage, createing packages for every app on Freshmeat. Also, since this would probably require a little source-code modification (to make the apps relocateable), the task would huge :*. I donno what to do :(.