A New way to configure conky (osc23)

Since last year’s talk i’ve been working on modernising conky’s default config system. There are a number of reasons for doing this from being able to provide a default configuration that better adapts to the system hardware to making it much easier to provide a modern look and feel. In this talk i’ll talk about the parts of this process that were easy because thanks to open source someone had already written something, the frustrating parts because someone had created something really nice but not licensed it. I’ll also talk about all the unexpected detours that I took which included some lua packaging, learning to write lua bindings and learning how to do proper font rendering on linux. I’ll also share the current progress and how you can give it a shot yourself along with what still needs to be done . Since last year’s talk i’ve been working on modernising conky’s default config system. There are a number of reasons for doing this from being able to provide a default configuration that better adapts to the system hardware to making it much easier to provide a modern look and feel. In this talk i’ll talk about the parts of this process that were easy because thanks to open source someone had already written something, the frustrating parts because someone had created something really nice but not licensed it. I’ll also talk about all the unexpected detours that I took which included some lua packaging, learning to write lua bindings and learning how to do proper font rendering on linux. I’ll also share the current progress and how you can give it a shot yourself along with what still needs to be done . about this event: https://c3voc.de