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I wrote a program to import, thresh and bin photos into folders. It's currently 1628 lines, including comments and empty lines. It's written in #Python and #Qt. I keep adding things, the last one being starting the window in the biggest screen it can find. I did it because my primary screen, where it otherwise starts, is the smaller of the two I most of the time have. 13 lines. Sometimes #programming is a breeze.

Got a bug report for @novelwriter from someone who uses Cuneiform text in their work. These are 4 byte Unicode symbols, and turned out to be very tricky to handle. 😅

The app is built with Python, which will switch a string to UCS-4 when it contains such characters, so the characters always have a single index in the string.

However, the Qt library uses UTF-16. That means 4-byte characters use two slots, creating a mismatch in indices between the two representations.

#Python#Qt#Code

sysctlview freshports.org/deskutils/sysct is a GUI utility for sysctl on #FreeBSD. :freebsd:
It's probably my first #opensource project 👨‍💻 , it's still in the Ports Collection 📦 and runs fine, but it hasn't been updated in years.

Maybe it's finally time to brush up on #C++ and give sysctlview a proper rewrite.
The original version uses #gtkmm (#GTK for C++), but a few years ago I ran a poll and most people preferred #qt
So maybe a QTsysctlview is on the horizon? 👀

I think there is a Dunning–Kruger like effect whereby the complexity of rewriting an open source project from scratch is vastly underestimated the less you know about the scope of the work.

You could make 80% of #inkscape in a couple of months of javascripting. But this is 80% of Inkscape's surface. Not actual depth.

Rewrite it all in #Qt? #React? #JS? #Rust? These are ideas aren't bad. But they are vast projects that would cost millions of dollars.

Related to: mastodon.uno/@maxdid/114691504

Oh boy ...

I switched @novelwriter to Qt6 on the recent 2.7 release, and that has caused sooo many problems with the AppImage.

I spent 7-8 hours yesterday trying to fix things, but AppImages are horrible to work with when you can't just use one of the standard tools that does everything for you.

... and now I hate AppImages.

#Coding#Python#Qt

I have spent a few evenings tinkering with the theming system of @novelwriter. The themes are defined in config files.

Since the Qt QColor object has a lighter(), darker() and alpha() modifier function, I added a way to refer to previously defined colours by name and with a L150 or D150 modifier here meaning 150% lighter or darker, and just a number for opacity from 0 to 255.

It makes it a lot easier to make themes!

I'm finally almost ready to release the first alpha¹ version of my social media meta-client for Sailfish OS.

It has themes!

I initially planned this for last January but I had some delays.

There's also an Android package but that might bring too many issues at once.

Now I have to finish some side-quests like a website and a Qt license since this isn't open-source.

¹) this basically means it won't work

Recién salido del horno, tenemos el episodio 46 de #KDEexpress con @DavidMarzalC hablando de #Plasma6.4 y 6.5 , #Discover, #Distros, #FreeBSD, #SteamOS, #Qt, #AkademyES, #Firefox y mucho más.

Notas completas en kdeexpress.gitlab.io/posts/kde

Esperemos que disfrutéis de vuestra dosis auditiva de KDE.

PD: En este episodio saliendose de lo normal, os pedimos que si vuestra aplicación tiene opción de valorar como ivoox o Pocket Cast, le des amor al podcast para que la familia de KDE se haga más grande.

KDE Express · Noticias y calor pre AkademyES Malaga
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Ah, OoT, I remember booting you up fresh off the used shelf at our local Blockbuster to find a save game right at Ganon's castle.

I honestly can't say I've ever 100% completed this game, although I'm fairly certain I've done the vast majority of it, with a walkthrough printed off of GameFAQs, of course.

With the recent advent of decompilation and recompilation projects I've been able to rekindle the excitement of playing this game again on my Steam Deck, but I also want to see what sort of secrets and RetroAchievements I can uncover for myself, so maybe this gets added to the Stream Revisit backlog...

MastodonNoSoloBot (@NoSoloBot@mastodon.social)Attached: 4 images The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 🏢 Nintendo EAD 📅 1998 🖥 64DD, Nintendo 64, Wii, Wii U #videogames
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