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date: "2001-03-16T02:28:00Z"
title: Pheh Phun
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Well, it's not ready for release just yet, but I've been working on a
new version of Pheh today. A pre-0.3.0
screenshot showing off the new thumbnail window is available
here. Other
good stuff: PLib 0.2.0 support,
slightly improved Evas and X code, and probably more stuff that I
forgot. If you don't feel like waiting, you can always grab Pheh
from CVS; instructions are available on my CVS
page.
I've noticed that Evas, or at least the CVS version, appears to leave
some bizarre visual artifacts. This could just be the NVidia
OpenGL implementation, or it could be the SGI GLU 1.3 GLU headers
I'm using. Anyway, if you have the same problem, try turning off
pheh hardware acceleration (comment the
render_method 3d_Hardware
line in your ~/.pheh/phehrc).
Speaking of NVidia, the 0.9-7
drivers came out a few days ago. Things are still working good,
and I get a noticeable framerate boost in
Quake 3. It looks like
they tweaked the TwinView support and managed to alleviate some of
the "dual-head tax". The new drivers also support the
X Render
extension, although I haven't had a chance to try it out just yet.
There's a patch for
QT that adds
anti-aliased font support to QT (and, by extension,
KDE applications) floating
around somewhere; I'll post a bit about it once I've had a chance
to try it out.
While I'm thinking about it, I just remembered that
Nautilus 1.0 came out
the other day. Don't waste your time trying it. While they did
manage to address a few of
my complaints abut PR2,
Eazel
apparently neglected to fix the two most important problems with
Nautilus. As such, I have found three more appropriate mascots for
Nautilus; one for it's
speed,
one for it's
size,
and one for it's
stability.
If you're still gung-ho about installing Nautilus, you should
probably consider a
leaner or
more stable
alternative. On the other hand, if you're actually looking for a
decent graphical file manager, I recommend either
Konqueror or
Andrew Shugg's unsupported and unmaintained
older EFM CVS snapshots.
Oh yeah, Raster redesigned
his page -- I really like the new layout. He even broke down and
divided his photo gallery into several pages. I suspect it was
just to drown out the cacophony of
whiny
modem
users. Anyway,
I'm pretty sure I've managed to offend just about everyone, so that's
it for today.