LeMMA 0.8 alpha release

LeMMA 0.8 is now available as an alpha version. A more ‘contemporary’ look-and-feel has been adopted for this version. I’ve also added various usability improvements (e.g. keyboard navigation using arrow keys), and some attempts at supporting the Mac platform better. A new .ini-like configuration file format is used, using the built-in Python config file parsing [...]

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Some notes on the current state of Python/Tkinter

I’ve been working on enhancing the user interface of my LeMMA app, which is written in Python/Tkinter. This discusses some of my thoughts while researching the current state of the art with regards to using Tkinter. Why did I choose Tkinter when there are other widget libraries that looks better and works natively? My decision [...]

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Colorful bash prompts and line-wrapping problem

Having been using git for some time now, I decided it was time I get comfortable with branching. I was trying to configure a color bash prompt that can tell me which git branch I’m currently in (using “__git_ps1″), with a color indicator to tell me whether the working directory is dirty or not. There [...]

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