25 Feb 2000 Uruk   » (Apprentice)

Just getting into this whole diary thing - I think I'm probably going to be using Advogato more in the future, since it seems to have quite a few nice things in it.

Well, the project that I'm hacking on, GTKeyboard, just released version 0.98.5 which has made some large steps and fixed some very important bugs. The keyboard remapping feature actually works like it's supposed to if it's given a valid mapping file, and users can add new keyboard types on the fly, instead of having to compile them in like the old versions did.

Several people from different companies have approached me about hacking the program into something that can run on embedded systems like on LynxOS, for medical devices, and for other applications as well. I'm going to be working with them quite a bit in the future I would imagine. That is not a direction that I had considered when I started the project, but what the hell. The software is getting put to an interesting use, and the people inside the company are contributing code which they allow me to include in GTKeyboard under the GPL. It's also relatively good code...

Enough ranting for now...

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