I’m glad you asked; yes, I’ve gotten busy/lazy and I haven’t written anything here in a long time… I’ve joined Barracuda networks in May. And now that (more then) a few months have passed I figured I’d get back in the game.
As far as drapes in concerned I’m working on a new version, it will defiantly be an overhaul, new features, fixing etc. The next version of drapes will require a gtk+ (and a corresponding gtk #) sufficiently new that it supports the tray icon stuff natively versus the hack that I’m using right now (from the oh-so excellent Tomboy). That will remove our dependency on libgtk-x11 which some how pulls in a bunch of devel packages (at least in Ubuntu). The user interface will pickup some major changes (hopefully for the better, but feel free to let me know if you disagree). The idea is to accommodate additional features while preserving a simple interface. Now I’m not saying what the new features are, well because quite frankly I’d like to have it be a pleasant surprise.
Also in kind of but not really related news I’ve went to OLF (Ohio Linux Fest) yesterday. It was a great time, got to meet some new people, see some “old” faces, go to some interesting talks and visit the same brewery 3 times in a day. Best part of the con. it self was the Conary BOF. It’s software, package, extraordinare system for builder from the rPath guys for build appliances. Working in the appliance space one can really notices how awesome their product is. It also happens that Forsight Linux, which is maintained by Ken Vandine who works for rPath, the guys that make the Conary* tools, happens to ship drapes by default. So now when I see Ken at events he always asks when is a new version of drapes coming out, which is something really cool to hear.
Milosz Tanski Reporting, Stay classy internet…
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Drapes rocks!
The Conary BoF session was definitely my high point for the day, too! After three and a half years, I’m still very excited to be working on Conary, which makes it great fun to talk about Conary with groups of people who grok why it’s so exciting. So thanks for joining us at the BoF — your questions and comments were a big part of making it so fun!
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