trying to make a difference
Friday, March 9th, 2007While feisty fawn herd5 is ruining my nights sleep, due to wifi not working with my prism54 card, I wanted to drop some notes of other stuff that’s cooking in my head and on my hard-disk for some time now.
lowfat will get an updated page with a proper design-document, a “10000 miles from above”-view, project goals and an additional long-term vision. I also plan to do a talk about it at Guadec’07. Apart from that I have to do a ton of hacking and further research on it (e.g. I want such a multitouch-display setup like Jeff Han has… somehow I got to get my hands on much a setup or build one myself!). lowfat is far from being finished! And yes it is OpenSource for all you sceptics. See here. But please remember, due to my lack of time (read: need to accept offers for paid work) I cannot waste any time to do handholding for end-users or review patches you might want to send in for a project that’s still so young and whichs code-base and design has not settled yet. Furthermore do not even think about packaging it for any distro. It would suggest a finished product to end-users, which is definetly not the case yet. In addition to that such actions would give it a bad reputation before it’s reached a stable state.
A humble attempt to avoid further misunderstandings comes now. lowfat is not meant or going to replace compiz, f-spot, elisa or similar projects. It is a thing of its own. You will see. If you think Apple does cool stuff, I can just mildly smirk.
Please remember, I’m a student, always suffering form a chronic lack of cash, eager to get my degree. As much as I would love to do nothing but work on putting my ideas for Gnome 3.0/4.0 into working code, real life asks other things from me.
I still need to finish the talk/demonstration about “multimedia on GNOME” for CeBIT next week, prepare for my internship at Fluendo (that’s a requirement for cs-studies) next month, maybe even a trip to the LGM2, continue and finish some contracted work. I try to do as much as I possibly can.
