Ebuild-ing

I have been a little busy and I have not had the time to put up a new post in more than two weeks. I wanted to learn how to make ebuilds and I have spent most of my time doing that instead of writing. My first ebuild had to be rewritten several times and that, along with testing, took most of the last ten days. I have quite a few posts in the works and hopefully I will finish at least one of them sometime next week. Meanwhile, I will be splitting my time between more ebuilds, possibly some translations, and everything else.

Some New Graphics

I am trying to improve the look of the blog a little and I needed an icon for the feed link. I looked online and there were plenty of good candidates. However, I decided to make my own since there does not seem to be a "standard" icon and some of those could be copywrited.

I fired up Inkscape and got to work. I made one for RSS and one for Atom. The easiest way to get images into Blogger is to just add them to a post, so I am doing that. If anybody likes them, I also have SVGs, and I can see about possibly posting those.

Pidgin Aliases (Meta Contacts)

I have been looking for this feature in Pidgin's menus for a while. However, I found it last week, completely by accident. Here is a simple how-to on making aliases.

1. Select one of the contacts that you want to group.
2. Right-click and select "Expand."
3. Now the Alias is expanded you can see that there is one account under it. Click and drag any other accounts you want to group under the alias.
4. You can rename both the accounts and the alias itself by right-clicking on each and selecting "Alias..."
5. When you are done, collapse the alias, by right-clicking on it and selecting "Collapse" or clicking on its triangle.