01:34 <Guest9>  what would be the most efficient way  to run `echo "all status $(battery) $(volume)" >/tmp/1000-runtime-dir/sandbar-0` I tried the example in the sandbar repo but it didnt work. sorry for asking here but I do not have a github account and this isnt really an issue, but a skill issue on my part.

01:35 <Guest9> I want to update each part of the bar at different intervals, or update volume only when it changes as an example

02:35 <leon-p> trying to do image loading now. seems like there is no generic image loading library in the foss world that doesn't either pull in gobject, or is some ancient mess

02:37 <leon-p> trying to decide whether to use freeimage, imlib2 or - and i know it sounds weird but genuinely seems like the most sane choice her - use the image magick C bindings

02:38 <leon-p> or just use libpng, libjpeg, etc., directly

02:40 <leon-p> imlib2 also has neat vector and text drawing stuff, which might be neat for fancy UI, but a) i already have ui code using pixman and b) it has a history of security issues (its from the enlightenment project adter all)

02:41 <leon-p> image magick has very whacky effects for manipulating and even creating images, but it seems to be somewhat slow

02:46 <leon-p> yeah, I'll do font drawing first

05:37 <LarstiQ> NickH: ah, it's in!

06:27 <NickH> LarstiQ: still needs to be approved by the FTP masters

06:29 <LarstiQ> fingers crossed

06:30 <LarstiQ> NickH: did the binary blob issue get resolved somehow?

06:30 <NickH> Yeah there is some discusion on the debian-devel list

06:31 <NickH> But the main thing that got it to move forward is that there is a DD that wants to package ghostty

06:32 <NickH> Prior to that there was no one in Debian sufficiently interested in Zig

06:32 <NickH> It all happened in a matter of days while I was AFK on vacation

06:37 <NickH> Re wasm blob: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/01/msg00105.html

06:45 <LarstiQ> NickH: hmm, so seems the earlier thinking that it was a problem might not have been entirely right

06:45 <NickH> That was never the showstopper anyway.

06:46 <NickH> The biggest problem was that no one in Debian was interested enough in Zig to sponsor the package

06:46 <LarstiQ> right