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I picked myself up and found something new to code.
Gentoo’s portage elog feature is quite nice so I began to write a little notification icon that shows me the elogs on the fly. at first I used trigger scripts. But after I digged into dbus I thought it is a better way to go. So I wrote a dbus elog plugin and use it to send elog messages to an elog dbus server(note it’s written in ruby for now). Now I can have a client (the notification icon) react on incoming elogs.
Well less talking more screenshots:

Elog Notification & Icon

The Elog Viewer

I don’t plan on putting the icon up until I have an idea about features and interface design.

Also maybe it’s possible to make a plugin or something for portato. Best would be if you could make portato intall packages or sync up when you pipe something to it like

portato install x11-libs/pango

or

portato sync

Well let’s see what this turns into (if anything).