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• February 26, 2008
• 15:17

  A new Envy Legacy and the death of Envy New…

   » ‎ Alberto Milone

  If you use an operating system other than Ubuntu Hardy you will now have to use Envy Legacy. Envy New is dead and will be soon replaced by EnvyNG.

  Release highlights of Envy Legacy:
  
* Fixed: Envy tried to install dkms on Debian.
* Fixed: the GUI didn't show the missing dependencies which can't be installed.
* Added: Nvidia drivers 96.43.05, 71.86.04
* Added: AMD Catalyst driver 8.02


  Enjoy

  EDIT: there was a problem with the ATI driver which I have just solved. Please download Envy Legacy again

  EDIT 2: I have updated the NVIDIA driver to version 169.12

• February 24, 2008
• 13:25

  More on the Artwork Contest

   » ‎ Alberto Milone

  First of all I would like to thank you all for participating in the contest. I apologise if I didn’t reply to all your emails but I’m receiving so many emails that it’s hard to keep pace with your emails. I’m so busy doing the uploads of your work, coding EnvyNG and living my life (but only in my spare time)… anyway I just wanted to let you know that you ROCK and that I do appreciate all the effort you’re putting into your works.

  I have set up a new gallery with all your logos (with thumbnails) so that I don’t have to edit html code every time I receive a new logo. I will only have to upload the new logos and the php scripts which I’m using (LGR Photo) will update the gallery for me.

  NOTE: unfortunately the script supports only .jpg.For this reason I had to convert all your works to jpgs therefore the quality of the images in the gallery may be poorer than the one of the originals (which I will use for EnvyNG). If you know a php script with supports pngs and svgs, and which creates albums from folder structure, please let me know.

  I would like to make it clear that there’s no rush to create and send me your works since EnvyNG 1.1.x is still under heavy development. EnvyNG 1.0.x won’t include the new GUI and hasn’t been released yet.

  Here’s something I managed to do yesterday (despite the fact that I hadn’t slept at all the night before):
  

  The error dialog (of the QT4 interface) shows what prevented the installation process to end successfully in EnvyNG. You will be able to copy and paste the content of the text browser in dialog (hopefully) without having to send me the full log.

  QT4 is great

  Of course I’ll do something similar in GTK as well.

• February 22, 2008
• 13:08

  Artwork Contest for EnvyNG

   » ‎ Alberto Milone

  The reactions to the screenshots of the prototypes of EnvyNG 1.1.x were positive however some users (see the comments to my previous posts and this blog post ) led me into thinking that it’s time for me to change EnvyNG’s icon and logo.

  I won’t draw a new icon and logo myself though. I wouldn’t define myself as skilled with the GIMP or Inkscape therefore I need your help:

  • If you are a designer (or you can use either the GIMP, Inkscape, etc.) you can send me an icon and logo (you can find my email address on my website) which reflect your idea of what EnvyNG should look like.
  • If you’re not a designer you can post a comment the artwork you think it’s more appropriate.

  Requirements for the icons and logos:

  1. They cannot contain trademarked components (e.g. ATI or NVIDIA’s logos).
  2. Their license has to be GPL 2.
  3. The preferred size of the logo is (more or less) 550×133 pixels.
  4. The preferred file formats are “png” or (even better) “svg”.
  5. It would be better if the colours reproduce the look and feel of the old Envy, however you’re free to surprise me in this respect.

  For further details you can have a look at the Frequently Asked Questions.

  Two Italian users have already sent me their logos. Of course your (polite) feedback on this blog is more than welcome.

  Follow this link to participate.

  EDIT: the new galley is here

• February 20, 2008
• 15:42

  A few updates - Part 2

   » ‎ Alberto Milone

  Features in EnvyNG 1.1.x

• A new interface in GTK.
  Its code will be cleaner (more readable and sensible). I will use SimpleGladeApp as glatzor (Sebastian Heinlein) suggested a long time ago.
  It won’t waste as much screen space as it used to do (see the screenshot below) as using Envy in 640X480 is not an easy task. It will use tabs and a treeview.
• A new interface in QT4
  EnvyNG will have an alternative interface written in PyQT4 so that it has a native look on KDE4 and that it doesn’t require GTK dependencies, VTE, etc. It will also use Adept instead of Synaptic.
• An improved Logger
  The logger of EnvyNG will be improved so that it will be easier for you (and for me) to see what goes wrong in the installation process.
  In GTK I use VTE to show the output of the subprocess which performs the installation, uninstallation, etc. and there’s still room for improvement.
  In QT4 I use a KProcess and insert the output into a QTextEdit widget. I rely only on QT4 (no VTE is required).

• Save the packages built by EnvyNG to your hard disk
  You will be able to either build, install and save the packages to your hard disk or just build and save without any need to install such packages. For example you might build the packages on a computer which is faster or which has access to a broadband internet connection and install such packages on another computer which lacks these features (in this case you will have to configure your xorg.conf manually).
• EnvyNG will be split into 3 packages
  envy-core - which contains the program and its textual interface and doesn’t depend on any GUI toolkit so that if, for example, you want to include EnvyNG in your customised distro but don’t have enough space for either the GTK or the QT4 libraries in your livecd, you can include just the textual installer.
  envy-gtk - the GTK interface
  envy-qt - the QT4 interface
  I will set up a PPA repository so that if you do a “sudo apt-get install envy-qt” (or -gtk), envy-core will be installed automatically as a dependency.

  The new GTK interface:

  

  The new QT4 interface:

  

  P.S. In case you’re wondering, I will update the good old Envy soon.