[Conky-development] Introduction

[Johannes W. <jw...@tk...>]

Hey,

I saw that some developers introduced themselves here, and figured I'd
keep up with this nice tradition :-).

Just today I got CVS commit access to CVS, after submitting a few
patches.  So far, I've touched some of the cpu frequency handling on
linux (adding support for proper display when using frequency scaling),
and a new field "diskio" which displays the sum of reads+writes from all
disks, a feature I liked very much in gkrellm and missed since I
switched to torsmo first, and conky some time ago. There's also a patch
pending to fix some vertical alignment issues when having bars/graphs
and text on the same line.

Compared to the screenshots I've seen so far, I have a really plain
conky setup:
  http://jw.tks6.net/files/conky-full.png (713KB)

Also, it seems that I'm a bit older than the average conky developer,
I'm 26 years old :-). I live in Switzerland, and have a B.Sc. equivalent
in computer science. I've worked as a software engineer before, and am
now part time system administrator, part time OSS developer (I plan to
get a full time software job soon again though).
I'm a package maintainer for CRUX (http://crux.nu), where I used to
maintain torsmo, and will soon (when 1.3's out) maintain an official
package for conky. I also wrote and maintain certain tools for CRUX, and
some part of the guideline docs. Check [1] for a better listing of
projects I'm involved in if you're interested.

My focus in the conky project will mainly be to implement fixes, and
probably suggest a feature from time to time (and of course implement it
if wanted).

I'm rather often on irc.freenode.net, as 'cptn'.

So much for now,
Johannes

  1. http://jw.tks6.net/projects.html
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Johannes Winkelmann              mailto:jw...@tk...
Bern, Switzerland                http://jw.tks6.net