Well, after a fashion, I've uploaded gimp-beta packages - these are the new development version, 2.3.2. You'll want the 2.3.2-1 packages in order for them to work properly, due to me not reading the release notes properly before building the 2.3.2-0 packages.

Okay, so I now have about three weeks off before we head down to Soul Survivor, so here's a little list of things I'm going to try to do during that time. Note that some or all of these may end up not happening depending on what else ends up eating my time, so don't depend upon them till they happen:

• Get more GNOME apps properly translated to en_GB as we move toward 2.12
• Try to get the latest 2.11.x release, including GTK+ 2.7.x built on SuSE 9.3 for insane testers to play with
• Okay, that's quite a short list, but the second one certainly will take a lot of time...

Oh yes, I've enabled RENDER and Composite in my X server, and I'm now running xcompmgr to do nice drop shadows and window fading. I have to say, it's rather gorgeous. Looking forward to some of these nifty features making their way into mainstream WMs.

Set up a new Mac Mini in the library at college today, to run Accordance. First real dabbling I'd had with OSX, and I have to say that on the whole it was pretty nifty. Good to be able to use a real shell (given that I'd heard that the default shell was TCSH, which I haven't really used in a good few years. Setting everything up was very easy indeed, system config was intuitive, and for printing (which regular readers will know is a current bonnet-bound bee of mine), it supports IPP, like all modern OSs should [aside for users of a certain Less Free OS].

Only played for a couple of hours, including the initial system setup, but I have to say full marks to Apple, it was almost as simple to setup and get started with as SuSE Linux! Worth saying that the graphical wizardry was very impressive, but much cooler things are just around the corner in the world of X.

A couple of gripes:

• I only seemed to be able to run one instance of the terminal emulator at a time, now this may have been because I hadn't found the right option, but it seems a dumb default
• The transparency on the terminal window didn't work quite right, if transparency was enabled, text that was cleared from the window was still visible "in" the transparency - wierd...