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Trever Fischer is a junior at The University of Akron
with a strong enthusiasm towards coding, writing, photography, and above all: oranges.
This is his site. Specifically, this is his "About" box. In addition to recently having finished his first year of college,
he is also a full-time hacker who tinkers with Amarok, Plasma, various KDE bits, and PHP.
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The Future of Glovebox
The middle of last year, I started working on Glovebox, a rather ambitious project for a car computer environment.
One of the biggest choices I made was to write my own set of UI libraries on top of Qt to mirror the kind of integration that KDE has. This was mostly because I didn’t want to drag in the few hundred MB needed for Plasma.
Wow, that past me was an idiot. Lets all point and laugh.
Ever since Plasma got moved into kdelibs, I’ve been thinking on and off about building Glovebox on top of KDE. For some reason over the past few weeks I started thinking more seriously about it.
At any rate, I’ve decided to go ahead and do that. I’ve also thought about another good idea. I’ll allow Glovebox’s UI to run under an X server in addition to the original idea of using Qt Embedded’s framebuffer stuff.
So most of tonight will be spent hacking the build system and Launchpad into shape, followed by restructuring the page plugin system to use KParts.
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This needs to be made now. now. nownownownownow.