[SM-Discuss] I think I've finally made the switch!!
Karol Vavrinec
karol.vavrinec at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 09:00:04 EDT 2008
Hi,
imho colored gaze activity, and especially convert the UTC time to local
seems to me like nice features. I hope they will be integrated. Maybe
colored output should be optional, or depend on sorcery color scheme.
qneo
2008/10/20 Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at rawfeddogs.net>
> SourceMage Fans,
>
> First of all, is this the best list to use for general user discussion? I
> posted a question to the Users list about a month ago and never got a
> reply. Then again, I replied to a post on this list a few weeks ago and
> never saw my message come through, so I might be having mail server
> issues.
>
> Anyway, I tried to switch to SourceMage a few weeks ago and hit a few
> snags. But, I was trying to go with the test Grimoire, since Xorg-modular
> had made it in there, so a few snags were understandable.
>
> This past Thursday I installed SMGL on my desktop box using the
> 0.10.0-test4.iso and so far so good with the stable Grimoire. For now I
> plan to stick with stable and test out stable-rc, and/or test, under a
> chroot setup to catch any problems before they make it to stable.
>
> I only had to scribble three spells to my locale Grimoire and tweak them.
> I think two of the three are known problems - lvm and gmime. I had to
> downgrade gmime to a 2.2.x version to get pan to cast. The third problem
> was with k9copy. While searching the net for the error I was getting I
> came across a k9copy-gcc43.patch which WORKED_FOR_ME. I know SMGL prefers
> to only apply patches that come from upstream. Should I open a bug and
> submit the patch I found?
>
> Also, I have an Alpine spell in my locale Grimoire updated to 2.00 that
> I'd be happy to submit. I removed the MAIL-TRANSPORT-AGENT dependency
> from my copy of the spell since I send all my mail through a remote SMTP
> server. Should that dependency be made optional?
>
> While tinkering around I came up with a couple of scripts some might find
> useful. With the first one, which I mentioned on IRC, one can pipe the
> output from gaze activity to it and it will convert the UTC time to local
> time. It's available at:
>
> http://www.RawFedDogs.net/u2l.txt
>
> I added the txt extension to make web browsers happy. I continued to
> tinker with it and ended up with a version that converts the time, and
> formats the output a bit. It displays cast lines in cyan, dispel lines in
> yellow, and summon lines in gray. In the status column it displays start
> in cyan, success in green, and if there's any type of failure, it displays
> the whole line in red. It's available at:
>
> http://www.RawFedDogs.net/actfmt.txt
>
> It works great for doing something like:
>
> % tail -F /var/log/sorcery/activity | actfmt
>
> while casts are running.
>
> Also, I've put together a simple SourceMage slim(SImple Login Manager)
> theme. I have about as much artistic talent as a rutabaga. I used a logo
> from download.SourceMage.org and a panel from another theme. It still
> needs a little work. I haven't quite got the text color to match the logo
> yet, but it's close. If anyone would like to try it out, it's available
> at:
>
> http://www.RawFedDogs.net/SourceMageSlimTheme.tar.bz2
>
>
>
>
> Kevin
> http://www.RawFedDogs.net
> http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
> Bruceville, TX
>
> Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
> Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!
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