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I have to say, hell has actually froze over. I’ve been promising this release for months now and I never thought i’d actually get it out the door. Due to numerous showstopping bugs and hitches this release has seen numerous delays. Finally, we’re there.

OBLogout is a logout and shutdown script designed with Openbox in mind, it’s simple, themeable, extendable, and useable even on a low powered machine like a EeePC. This new release sports alot of new features:

• Keyboard shortcuts – each button can have a shortcut key assigned to it
• Customisable commands – allows for you to modify what each button does.
• PolicyKit support – allows for everything to work well with HAL.
• Better theme support – themes are easier to setup and change.

If your interested, drop over to the Launchpad project page. At the moment i’ve got packages for Ubuntu Intrepid and also Arch, if anyone wants to contribute any others then please drop me a mail.

So now I storm onto the 0.3 release, I’ve got a few blueprints that I want to clear on this release but i’m always welcome to new ideas. If you have any suggestions then raise a blueprint on Launchpad.

I’ve been quite busy over the last two weeks, catching up on home projects and other things. After a few quick fixes and features sent over to the LottaNZB guys I was added to the development team, which is quite a change for me considering the last project I was on was over 4-5 years ago. Anyway, it’s been good to get my Launchpad user ID” back in use as the LottaNZB project is hosted on their services.

As well as LottaNZB, I’m also adding to the Python bindings for MythTV. At the moment the existing bindings only support simple operations and I’m expanding it out to abstract out most of the major concepts within the DB, for example channels and programs. Hopefully, they’ll provide useful in the future when I need to do a channel rescan.