An excerpt from my diary, from the 25th of February, 2024.
I mentioned it briefly in the previous day, but I started exploring tiling windows—a largely promoted feature for Pop!_OS. It’s highly customization friendly, so you can set and modify key-binds for almost any action you can imagine. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but not one that’s going to take years to master or anything, though it seems to be missing some important features by default. Thankfully I’m able to add all program minimizing, and single program minimizing into the mix easily, from within the context settings. I quite like the idea of managing my windows with the keyboard, but I wasn’t too fond of floating windows; that is to say, windows with a boundary exposing the desktop background on all sides. However, being able to freely maximize windows with Super + M, means that this isn’t an issue whenever I want to focus on a single program. I’m getting somewhat used to using the keyboard to shuffle windows around, minimize them, Alt + Tab them back open, and just generally enjoying the experience! I’m hoping that in a couple weeks or so, I feel fully confident with basic window tiling, and can appreciate its efficiency in full.
I think it’s about time I try to actually craft something more substantial in Krita on my operating system, so I go and do just that. I made a pencil sketch before—which was nice of course—but I want to get a lined and colored piece out there! Anyway, I spent the next few hours drawing my sona lying on a bed, initially seductively, but ultimately humorously. Not in the sense I made him do anything silly, but more that I had an idea to turn this into a punchline instead, with this image as a base. I’ll just have to see if I can get myself to do it another time, as completing the main image already took a fair few hours. This also led me down a path to getting a plugin for Krita, which makes speech bubbles for me! Rogudator’s speech bubble generator is pretty simple and effective for my needs, at least for now. I might look into something a little more dynamic if I do more comics, but for short blurbs, these simple, pointed, circle bubbles are perfect. I wish there was a simple shapes library by default in Krita, but maybe that’s something I can explore at some point too in the realm of plugins. After all, plugins have a massive potential, and I’ve entirely overlooked them until now.
Also figured I’d toss on Steam again, just to see if I could get anything not made by Valve running. After a few clicks, I got to Goat Escape 2, which opened right up, and seemed to work like a charm. I never actually did play the game, one of many that have been rotting in my library for years and years. I think it was a part of those very old Humble Bundle deals in the early 2010s, where you see one or two games you’re after, and 10 other ones you weren’t really pining for...but redeem anyway. It’s a cute puzzle platformer, which I had some fun with for a few hours, wrapping up my weekend before work starts again. Haven’t beat it yet, but I feel like I might be around the half way point of the game.
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