Boxes, KVM and Libadapta
Boxes and KVM
I’ve recently removed and converted some VMs from VirtualBox to gnome-boxes
and the .qcow2 format. It went well. The only loss was “tiny video” as the
resolution scaling is absent from the boxes version I’m on. The fact I
can keep a podman instance up working (relies on kvm) was a major reason
for the switch. So really not that much of a change.
Libadapta and Themes
On the Linux Mint 22.2 upgrade, I tried out the libadapta theming under a
python program. Using Gtk-4 Adwaita is not too bad, but sometimes looks
limited and unstyled. So I developed the basic demo further, adding in
C++ to a hatch project, and then also added in luaJIT-5.1 for preference
for some things. I don’t mind python for its large module range, ML to
quite a few GUI toolkits. But I do like the simplicity of Lua and such a thing
is more likely to fit mostly in the I-cache.
I’ll add to this demo project as I think of good implementation ideas. I
think I might try some multithreaded audio, as the .lv2 plugin spec is in my
opinion, overly verbose waffle.
Other Project News
I’m doing all this as me, myself. If anything gets really good traction I suppose it will become a company focus. But my “housing” has a “no working” clause, and so It’s just “hobby” just like the competition “arranged”.