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J’ai reçu, il y a quelques jours, la nouvelle procédure concernant l’élection des députés des Français de l’étranger. Il est donc désormais possible de voter par Internet, avec toutes les incertitudes que cela comporte sur le secret et l’authentification du vote.

With the release of elementary 1.0, it’s a good time to celebrate. If you are an EFL/E17 developer or user from South Korea, you can come to the meeting, Sunday, May 6, in Seoul.

Suggested meeting place: Itaewon, 5:00PM, exit #1 of subway line 6 (Hamilton hotel).

If you can come, please drop a message here with your name!

EDIT:
Some pictures of the event!

EDIT2:
Pictures from SeoZ

Here is a new version of SlackE17, the e17 distribution for Slackware.

Visible changes include addition of connman, expedite, exquisite (with a slackware theme) and eperiodique.

Packages are ready for Slackware or Slackware64 13.37. You can download a *.tar that contains all the individual packages (preferred way) or just get the bloated with everything big mamma package.

If you only want stable code, you can get, one-by-one, the EFL 1.2.0 packages (with a snapshot of the WM).

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries version 1.2.0, along with elementary 1.0 have been released today. The new ePeriodique 0.3 is based on these libraries. Here is a video preview showing the new molar mass calculator:

From the Slackware64 ChangeLog:

Mon Mar 26 01:41:11 UTC 2012
l/glibc-2.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

This change gives trouble with some applications. For instance, subversion segfault as soon as it starts. There are patches around for this problem but recompiling and testing glibc is not very funny. Patrick Volkerding will surely fix this soon but if you’re stuck and can not wait, here is a trick: you can use LD_PRELOAD to load the old libc before the new. Updating glibc on Slackware always let essential part of the old lib around, which is handful in this case. The bug in glibc is in the maths lib, so you can run subversion by doing:

LD_PRELOAD=/lib64/libm-2.14.1.so svn up

This workaround can save your day!

Thanks to the Bodhi Linux project, I could gather a bunch of themes for e17 and made a Slackware package to use with SlackE17. Download it on SourceForge. Beware, it’s big (260 MB). Preview are on the Bodhi Linux website.

If you are using Slackware and if you are following -current, then you need to check slackware.com regularly to see if there is any update. There are more than one way to do this: reading the ChangeLog on-line, using slackpg or launching rsync… But all of these approaches require, at least, to download the full ChangeLog file from the server which is neither efficient nor elegant. An other way is to only check the modification time of the file, without downloading it, and compare it with a local version. You can do this with curl in a bash shell script like this:


#!/bin/bash

REMOTE=ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current
LOCAL=/usr/local/src/slackware64

# check connection
ping -q -w 1 slackware.com 1> /dev/null

if [ ${?} = 0 ]; then
  NEW=`curl -s -I ftp://${REMOTE}/ChangeLog.txt | grep Last-Modified`
  OLD=`curl -s -I file://${LOCAL}/ChangeLog.txt | grep Last-Modified`
  if [ "${NEW}" = "${OLD}" ]; then
    echo "no"
    exit 0
  else
    echo "yes"
    exit 1
  fi
fi


If your using SlackE17, you can use the execwatch module to check regularly for update. Make it wait for an exit code of 0. A poll time of 1 hour should be good. If updates are available, the green icon of exewatch will turn red to warn you.

New release of ePeriodique:

• Add an animation to show the data
• Add a navigation bar in the data window
• Makes symbol colour depends on phase in the table
• Code refactoring
• Define and use colour classes instead of data in edje theme
• misc bug fixes

Bug fix release of ePeriodique, a periodic table of elements using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

You can download source code package and Slackware 13.37 packages (to use with SlackE17).