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RedBeard0531 · Post by **RedBeard0531** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 4:20 am

mp is a nano like editor with code highlighting and some mouse suport.

sessionID · Post by **sessionID** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 2:46 pm

"genlop is a small perl script which show you, in a nice and coloured output, useful information about your previously emerged packages by looking at /var/log/emerge.log

you can always take the most updated version of genlop at http://pollycoke.org/genlop.html"

dylix · Post by **dylix** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 3:16 pm

sessionID wrote:"genlop is a small perl script which show you, in a nice and coloured output, useful information about your previously emerged packages by looking at /var/log/emerge.log

you can always take the most updated version of genlop at http://pollycoke.org/genlop.html"

saw that on freshmeat late last night, its pretty cool .. nice to know how long things take to compile.. maybe now there can be some accurate information regarding how long things take to compile on certain machines.. everyone is always saying "How long does that take to compile?".. anywho, very nice app.

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:58 pm

Thanks

Zephaniah · Post by **Zephaniah** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:51 pm

more < less < most

Well, I like it anyway.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/most/?topic_id=112
emerge most

hakan · Post by **hakan** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 6:39 pm

Software request

I'm searching for an WinEdt similiar editor for LaTex. Kile isn't bad, but it is not good at all. The editor sucks. It doesn't support automatic indent, no spell checking, and has some (minor) bugs.
And I am searching for an application with which I can draw vector graphics, it should be like XFig, but should be more useable.

I have read this thread carefully. There is some really interesting software around from which I never hear until now. Why this software isn't listed somewhere?
Where do you search for your software? I use sourceforge.net, freshmeat.org, sometimes google.

thx, for this nice thread.

sessionID · Post by **sessionID** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 7:48 pm

Sketch is a vector drawing program. Sodipodi is another one.

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 9:25 pm

sessionID wrote:Sketch is a vector drawing program. Sodipodi is another one.

Don't bother with Sketch. Sodipodi is so much better, useful, and well maintained. Sodipodi is also Gtk2, whilst Sketch still does not have a stable Gtk1 version (it's been the development version for years).

When I tried Sketch I couldn't do anything. Sodipodi is very close to being a mature Vector Gfx app and it's only 0.32 - by 0.5 it will be awesome and a rival to Adobe Illustrator.

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:42 am

I'm going to add VegaStrike to this list because it is quickly becoming a commercial quality game and really doesn't get recognised by the OSS community.

shimage · Post by **shimage** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 11:04 pm

hakan wrote:Software request

I'm searching for an WinEdt similiar editor for LaTex. Kile isn't bad, but it is not good at all. The editor sucks. It doesn't support automatic indent, no spell checking, and has some (minor) bugs.
And I am searching for an application with which I can draw vector graphics, it should be like XFig, but should be more useable.

I have read this thread carefully. There is some really interesting software around from which I never hear until now. Why this software isn't listed somewhere?
Where do you search for your software? I use sourceforge.net, freshmeat.org, sometimes google.

thx, for this nice thread.

Have you tried texmacs? I personally don't care for it, but some people seem to like it. I use jed with Jorgen Larsen's LaTeX mode. It's the only thing I prefer over WinEdt.

edit: I forgot to mention that texmacs and jed are in portage. Also, I have no clue how to insert international characters in HTML, so I spelt his name wrong (J\o rgen Larsen)

bludger · Post by **bludger** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:25 am

DBDesigner4 looks interesting. Does anyone know if there is an ebuild for it?

AgenT · Post by **AgenT** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:23 pm

bludger wrote:DBDesigner4 looks interesting. Does anyone know if there is an ebuild for it?

I made on myself, but it was useless because the whole thing installs to one directory (or something like that, do not remember too well).

isnogood · Post by **isnogood** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 4:20 pm

I was just looking for something to resize a bunch of jpg's and stumbled over metapixel while I was at it.Not only did it resize the jpg's - you can also create photomosaics with it.Great for playing around and making use of that digital photos you never look at anyway..It's at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel

AgenT · Post by **AgenT** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 4:57 pm

isnogood wrote:I was just looking for something to resize a bunch of jpg's and stumbled over metapixel while I was at it.Not only did it resize the jpg's - you can also create photomosaics with it.Great for playing around and making use of that digital photos you never look at anyway..It's at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel

You should also try imagemagick:

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media-gfx/imagemagick

It can do resizing, conversion, and even manipulation. Note that it is not meant as a replacement for metapixel, but you mentioned having to resize a lot of jpg's which imagemagick is perfect for.

cdunham · Post by **cdunham** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:05 pm

isnogood wrote:I was just looking for something to resize a bunch of jpg's and stumbled over metapixel while I was at it.Not only did it resize the jpg's - you can also create photomosaics with it.Great for playing around and making use of that digital photos you never look at anyway..It's at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel

Cool. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26144

jzleidigh · Post by **jzleidigh** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:59 pm

distcc!!!!! Its in portage. And has configurable support in make.conf!

It allows gcc to distribute compilation to 1 or more distcc enabled servers configured and visable to the client (machine actually doing the compiling)

Just be careful about cross compiling and GCC versions. Cross compiling (ex a PIV doing some compiling for a PIII client or Windows doing compilig for linux) is doable (have read about it though not done it) but I understand it entails a little more setup. Basic install and use is simple!

nsahoo · Post by **nsahoo** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:29 am

Thanks you guys for kile and genlop.

Here are my contributions.

if you miss ACD See from M$windows go for "pixie", its from the guy who wrote mosfet liquid. Try it .. it's almost like ACDSee and light

do you have lots of music files to manage ? try madman. I was searching for a playlist manager for a long time and found this one. Its even better than Windoze media players playlist manager. It does one job .. manages playlists - and does it in the simplest/best possible way. It won't play them for you - rather invoke xmms with the playlist to play it. Its philosophy is - playlists are rules .. like make a playlist out of songs that I have played more than 12 times .. and did I tell you that it supports fuzzy incremental search?

Sir Al · Post by **Sir Al** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:02 am

An instant messenger client that I don't hear much about, but is in fact excellent and supports pretty much all the protocols that GAIM can do is kopete.

It's the KDE Instant Messenger, and the GAIM equivalent for KDE. There are plugins for it, and it's even not bad for irc. It will actually be included in KDE 3.2.

Another IM that does get enough publicity is SIM, Simple Instant Messenger. It's and ICQ client and very pretty. I use this personally; one of the main reasons I do is because it actually has the original ICQ chat mode available, which I am so ever used to.

On the MSN side, kmess is quite nice.

zypher · Post by **zypher** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 6:55 pm

Another vote from me: multi-aterm.
I like it, it's great! Transparency, tabs, aa-fonts.
oh, and:

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zypher@laptop zypher $ qpkg -l multi-aterm
x11-terms/multi-aterm-0.0.4 *
CONTENTS:
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/multi-aterm

zypher@laptop zypher $

nuff said...

Clete2 · Post by **Clete2** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 9:41 pm

jzleidigh wrote:distcc!!!!! Its in portage. And has configurable support in make.conf!

It allows gcc to distribute compilation to 1 or more distcc enabled servers configured and visable to the client (machine actually doing the compiling)

Just be careful about cross compiling and GCC versions. Cross compiling (ex a PIV doing some compiling for a PIII client or Windows doing compilig for linux) is doable (have read about it though not done it) but I understand it entails a little more setup. Basic install and use is simple!

Cool... I emerged it and added the make.conf stuff... can this be used on the internet, not just my network? Please explain how to find servers of the sort...

... also, I'd like to setup one for use when my CPU is just idle... any ideas here?

dylix · Post by **dylix** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:35 am

Clete2 wrote:
jzleidigh wrote:distcc!!!!! Its in portage. And has configurable support in make.conf!

It allows gcc to distribute compilation to 1 or more distcc enabled servers configured and visable to the client (machine actually doing the compiling)

Just be careful about cross compiling and GCC versions. Cross compiling (ex a PIV doing some compiling for a PIII client or Windows doing compilig for linux) is doable (have read about it though not done it) but I understand it entails a little more setup. Basic install and use is simple!
Cool... I emerged it and added the make.conf stuff... can this be used on the internet, not just my network? Please explain how to find servers of the sort... ... also, I'd like to setup one for use when my CPU is just idle... any ideas here?

just use nice on distccd

Clete2 · Post by **Clete2** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:11 am

dylix wrote:
Clete2 wrote:
jzleidigh wrote:distcc!!!!! Its in portage. And has configurable support in make.conf!

It allows gcc to distribute compilation to 1 or more distcc enabled servers configured and visable to the client (machine actually doing the compiling)

Just be careful about cross compiling and GCC versions. Cross compiling (ex a PIV doing some compiling for a PIII client or Windows doing compilig for linux) is doable (have read about it though not done it) but I understand it entails a little more setup. Basic install and use is simple!
Cool... I emerged it and added the make.conf stuff... can this be used on the internet, not just my network? Please explain how to find servers of the sort... ... also, I'd like to setup one for use when my CPU is just idle... any ideas here?
just use nice on distccd

just use nice? Is that a command or something? Also, how would I find a list of servers? (I can't supply one myself until my dad grabs a LAN card for the slow old laptop...)... there ought to be at least one server out there for public use...

Sir Al · Post by **Sir Al** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:19 am

Clete2 wrote:just use nice? Is that a command or something? Also, how would I find a list of servers? (I can't supply one myself until my dad grabs a LAN card for the slow old laptop...)... there ought to be at least one server out there for public use...

Nice is the level of priority the process is run with, a lower nice means it runs with higher priority, a higher nice means it runs with lower priority. It ranges from -20 to 19.

Just edit /etc/conf.d/distccd and look at the option already there, it's set to 20 by default.

And a public distcc server? Unlikely, I think...

cvk · Post by **cvk** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 12:02 pm

Gringotts! It's a nice little gtk2 password manager. It's not perfect, but it has a funny name, is in Portage (app-crypt/gringotts) and keeps me from having clear text files on my desktop.

Chris

geekX · Post by **geekX** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 12:53 pm

imagemagick.
I guess it has already been mentioned, but imagemagick can be used for so many things, I think it deserves some more credit.

It can work with probably any image format under the sun. We use it at work to automatically create thumnails of images. I use it at home to convert an image's format. You can do all sorts of more complex things and even compose images. It can even work with .pdfs - I frequently have to create a preview image of the first page of a .pdf document.

my take_screenshot script contains the following:
import -window root -quality 90 screenshot.png

see - a compressed .png No need to manually reduce the file size using gimp.

I suggest you check out their website. They even have apis so that you can use it inside your apps.

from http://imagemagick.org/:

Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:

Convert an image from one format to another (e.g. TIFF to JPEG)
Resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image
Create a montage of image thumbnails
Create a transparent image suitable for use on the Web
Turn a group of images into a GIF animation sequence
Create a composite image by combining several separate images
Draw shapes or text on an image
Decorate an image with a border or frame
Describe the format and characteristics of an image

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