Future

It was announced today that the Wayland protocol is now done. Wayland being the up and coming replacement for Xorg this poses a challenge for KDocker. KDocker uses X11, Xpm, and Xmu specifically to manipulate and dock windows. While Wayland is supposed to provide an X compatibility layer as we all know about compatibility layers they are often incomplete (especially when you start talking about complex parts) and eventually they go away....

Let me start of by saying that KDocker is not dead and I’m not abandoning it. The past few releases have had minimal changes. This is mainly because I believe KDocker is pretty must feature complete at this point. It docks apps and does a pretty good job doing so. The past few releases have been small (very small) maintenance releases. For a while I was worried about the relevancy of an application like KDocker....

Introduction With 0.4 my focus has been on getting the existing features in a stable state. I foresee 0.4 being around for quite some time as development shifts to accommodate new features. I wanted to be sure a relatively bug free version is available for people to use. If data loss is a constant then there wouldn’t be any point in using Sigil. Now that 0.4 is done it’s time to start working on what’s next....

Introduction Since taking over as the maintainer of Sigil I have spent some time reaching out to specific people in the ebook community to ask them about Sigil. Specifically if they use Sigil? Why or why not? What do they see as Sigil’s shortcomings? How do they use Sigil in their work flow? Why doesn’t Sigil work in their work flow. Basically, their thoughts and opinions on Sigil. I asked specific people privately because I didn’t want to be inundated with responses....

The other day it was announced I am now the maintainer of the Sigil. Back in June Strahinja announced that he was looking for someone to take over the project. I highly respect the work Strahinja has done with Sigil and this is a project I don’t want to see die. I myself use Sigil one occasion and when dealing with e-books I often find myself recommending its use. After seeing the announcement by Strahinja that it was time to move on I contacted him about taking over in his stead....