8/18/2005

This is what I’m talking about!

Cardoe wrote this in the early evening:

Perfect example of what the Project Gentopia team is talking about just happened early today. As I’ve said many times, our goal is to provide a test bed and development ground for the groundbreaking features coming to the users desktops. This is not an effort to step on devs toes, it’s an effort to improve Gentoo and software as a whole. Gentopia has provided numerous patches upstream to Gnome CVS and Freedesktop.org CVS in advance of up coming versions.

What did we do that I’m blogging about? We finally got HAL and DBUS into the Portage tree. While these new version are p.mask’d they are still going to form and important basis for the features you and I want to see on your KDE and/or Gnome desktop.

In addition to the HAL & DBUS updates today, we’ve provided the following today. We have provided a sprinkling of modular X dependencies to the Portage tree. Updates to Cairo & Glitz so now the latest Cairo supports Glitz. Some fix ups for Firefox/Mozilla/Thunderbird users using GTK+ 2.8.

This is not a post crying for credit. I couldn’t careless. It’s a post for those that say “What do you want to do with Gentopia?” This, develop the next generation/versions desktop applications for use on Gentoo. As we get more developers actually write more of this software ourselves. In fact, a couple Gnome (non-Gentoo developers) have gained interest in Gentoo as a result of our project and are interested in joining up. This can only mean more quality software on Gentoo boxes.

* Filed under: General, Gentopia, Linux

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