Sunflower - A GTK Twinpanel File Manager

I've recently found a great replacement for Krusader.
It is still early alpha and there isn't an ebuild for it yet but it's pretty stable already.

I'm going to make an ebuild later this week.

Just fetching the source, unpacking it and starting the Sunflower.py will do the job if you want to test it already.

Home of Sunflower FM
Screenshots

QT apps in a GTK environment

QT applications which don't require kdelibs or other parts of KDE can easily be installed with a matching GTK theme. I'm using Picard and SMplayer for example.

Though, it needs some preparations to have a small and clean QT install and be able to switch the theme.

I'm using the default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop profile to set my global environment.

My USE-Flags in /etc/make.conf:

-qt4 -accessibility -plasma -jit -exceptions


USE-Flags in /etc/portage/package.use:

dev-python/PyQt4 -svg -webkit -multimedia -opengl
x11-libs/qt-gui -cups -mng -tiff gtkstyle
net-libs/webkit-gtk jit
x11-libs/qt-sql -postgres -sqlite


It's important to enable qt3support, which is standard in the desktop profile. Then you won't need KDE's systemsettings because the qt3support package comes with a small tool called qtconfig to switch the theme. The 'GTK-alike' theme is built when you enable the gtkstyle USE-Flag.
All other USE-Flag should match your personal needs. I've disabled almost everything because I don't need support for most things in Picard or SMplayer.

belak overlay

I've merged most important ebuilds from zentoo to belak overlay.

There are actually only two ebuild which went there:
app-editors/scribes
x11-misc/easystroke

A nice advantage for all who are using these ebuilds.. belak is in the layman list and can easily be added with "layman -a belak".

I'll keep those two up to date in belak overlay from now on.. soo please add it ^^

First alpha release of Ardour 3.0 available

http://ardour.org/a3_alpha1

New Scribes ebuild

There is a new slim Scribes ebuild in my overlay and also on the gentoo bugtracker.
I've killed lots of dependencies, namely the whole gnome-desktop dependency, and the ebuild is pulling only into the really needed packages now.

For all who were afraid of using it because of the ~70+ packages which had to be emerged for it.. this is your chance. Get your hands on the simple, slim and sleek, yet powerful editor Scribes.

Oh, just to mention it.. I really don't know if scribes will work for you with those less dependencies. It does it for me, so just give it a try ^^

Links:
Home of Scribes
Bugreport on gentoo bugtracker

MPD clients in new Android Market

There are some Android Apps for MPD in the new Android Market.

https://market.android.com/search?q=mpd

app-editors/scribes

Small info about the editor Scribes..

I've created an ebuild for the most recent version of Scribes, since the version in the portage doesn't work for me anymore.
I'm trying to keep it up to date until a maintainer will be found for it.

Links:
Home of Scribes
Bugreport
ebuild in my overlay