Rainy Holiday

Going Home
After a few months of work, I thought it's time to get some holiday.. So, I went to my home town Wahacotte, (quite famous for the Portuguese colony and the 15th century St Antony's Church). Well, the bus wasn't very crowed as it wasn't really the holiday season yet, although it will be on next week (Christmas holiday).. It is about four hour journey from Colombo, however, since it was a poya day, plus I got up late, so the crow had already vanished and
it took bit more than 3hours to my place.. As I move closer to the destination the rain was pouring heavily.

Adventure I (Roller Coaster Ride And Free Fall)
Once I got down from the bus, I thought I'll catch a three wheeler.. That was a loud one, I should have got on to a bus instead. I had a quite a ride up hill.. This guy was turning to the left and the the vehicle was sliding to the other side. First it was scary, coz' with a little over slip, I could have been experiencing the free fall for about 10 seconds and then I do the triple Summer salt and tasting my own feet that wrapped around my neck. I thought, that something might have been wrong with the usual break system but turned out one of the tires' had very little air.

Adventure II (REDBULL)
Anyway, I didn't know that there was another adventure ahead of me. well, this time it was a big, fat, ugly, wild bull on loose whos apparently bit angry thinking that I'm eying on his lady friend, plus I'm wearing RED.well RED and BULL doesn't really go together, (wonder how they
come up with the name redbull). Now, this was a quite a scene. Bugger's on my way to the house which is about 30 yards. Well, nothing else to do, so, I got a big stick and giving a big shout I went charging at him. Naaahh!! what do you crazy?! although, I did give a little shout and threw some rocks at the bugger.. Well, bugger gave a very nasty look and walked off.
Turned out that wasn't the big bad bull, this one seems like an innocent little bugger.. ah! well...

Peace At Last
As it was raining I couldn't go anywhere, so I spent time roaming in our little estate.. Well, that was the most beautiful site that I've seen in ages. Too bad, as I don't have a good camera, I took the photos from my phone, hope Santa will give me a "HandyCam" this time :-D

Path to Enlightenment

I tried, tried and tried compiling the cvs checkout of E17 on FreeBSD-5.4 and I had many problems, firstly the gnulibtools, automake, and autoconfig were missing. So, I got them installed.
Then there was this issue with the configure file,

ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'

So, I manually edited configure file and remove the `--no-verify' . Then it looked all okay till I got to edje, it gave some compilation errors. After few attempt I gave up :-( . However, I manage to install the same cvs checkout in my linux box :-D . So, not that bad.

After few months, still really interested on installing E17 on my FreeBSD box. I found that once I did the cvsup on ports , I had a new directory called enlightenment-devel, yippee yippie. That's the baby.. But I knew that with the mess I have done with the manual installation this might not be an easy task. Yeap, I was right as I have already installed the libraries like eet, ecore, evas, embryo etc; the "make" failed.. Ah! now I'm really pissed.. Well, not to worry, had a look around and found the FreeBSD package of the E17 in their ftp site (enlightenment-0.16.999.018_1.tbz) . With my fingers crossed, I did a pkg_add enlightenment-0.16.999.018_1.tbz , of cause I had to remove the E16 as the name was getting conflicted. And yippee, yippee I got it working. (Although crashes when I try to install any theme)

Isn't it beautiful

Anyway, now it is time to develop something. So, first thing, I want to put some icons to the iBar, so I read the fine manual and wrote a small Perl GTK app to do that, and yeah now I'm on the path to Enlightenment.

This how My Little EAP Editor Looks like

First Select The icon file (png ;-) )

Ah! it gives a preview ;-)

And you can fill the rest

This is before

And This is after