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shuthdar

Member

From: Latvia

Registered: 2006-08-09

Posts: 31

What do you miss?

Hi all!

I want to improve my programming skills (C & Python preferable) making something useful for community.

So I thought maybe archers will have some ideas?

Sigi

Member

From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: What do you miss?

You could write a tool that detects the correct video driver, resolution and so on and generates an xorg.conf - would be very useful for LiveCDs...

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chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: What do you miss?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=24961

A yahtzee game is the way forward, make me some yahtzee....

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phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: What do you miss?

You could write a tool that detects the correct video driver, resolution and so on and generates an xorg.conf - would be very useful for LiveCDs...

Done.  ddcxinfo-arch in the hwd package.  It reads directly from hardware.

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trofer

Member

Registered: 2006-07-26

Posts: 13

Re: What do you miss?

Do some graphical dependency map (graph) showing more important package dependencies with thickier lines or other colors, based on the number of packages which depend on it, or other criteria. Integrate it with some of the other GUI pacman frontends.

I know, not exactly the arch way, probably a few lines in octave could do that, or one line in perl would get me a list of packages sorted by an importance rule, but some people like to have the option to look at things visually.

Alphalutra1

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Registered: 2006-09-16

Posts: 59

Re: What do you miss?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=24961

A yahtzee game is the way forward, make me some yahtzee....

I wrote one a while back in Java, I will post it once I find it if it makes you happy.  I will include the sourcecode as well. 

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

Alphalutra1

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Registered: 2006-09-16

Posts: 59

Re: What do you miss?

http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/a3a81868b1/ here it is.  Released under BSD license cause I like that one, and it is a two player yahtzee applet.  Source code is included and so are the compiled classes.  Just open up the html file once you extract the files, then you will have a fun yahtzee to play in your browser.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

chrismortimore

Member

From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: What do you miss?

http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/a3a81868b1/ here it is.  Released under BSD license cause I like that one, and it is a two player yahtzee applet.  Source code is included and so are the compiled classes.  Just open up the html file once you extract the files, then you will have a fun yahtzee to play in your browser.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

Cool, I'll give it a go later, cheers

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Askadar

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Registered: 2004-08-10

Posts: 10

Re: What do you miss?

Do some graphical dependency map (graph) showing more important package dependencies with thickier lines or other colors...

That's a job for graphviz. Just read from the package db the dependencies and output to a text file, feed it to dot (or use a pipe) and you got a graphical representation of the dependencies.