New Conky is on its way
22.05.2009 | Categories: Ubuntu
Should we enable lua and imlib2 support for the Ubuntu Conky package?
Conky is now in feature freeze for 1.7.1.
This release doesn't contain a huge number of changes, but it does have a couple really nice features such as Lua and IMLIB2 support, so hopefully we'll see some cool things from it.
The question now is if we should enable these features in the Ubuntu package or not.
I'm interested to hear Ubuntu Conky's user opinions, especially if there is anyone who is against introducing this change (obvious drawbacks are increased memory and disk footprints and possibly some cpu/timing overhead even if you won't be using these features).
I have now hardy and jaunty testing packages available from my PPA for you to check out.
Here are some basic 'how 2' articles upstream wrote about the new features: