Blog - The Costa GUI

New release of Costa - version 1.2.0

Posted on the 27th of May, 2018

Once again I have released a new version Costa, version 1.2.0.

The main feature in this new version is support for multiple profiles. It is now possible for several users to use the same installation of Costa, each with their own settings, theme and personal desktop. One user could also have separate profiles for work, play etc.

Full changelog for this and previous releases are available in the archive.

New release of Costa - version 1.1.0

Posted on the 3rd of March, 2018

Yesterday I released a new version of my long-time hobby coding project, Costa.

There’s not much new to see. I added a “Tip of the Day” dialog, and some new icons for you to choose from when creating desktop links, but mostly it’s all about bugfixes and improved stability.

In support of Open Source

Posted on the 2nd of October, 2017

Over the past couple of years I have been using Open Source software increasingly. More and more of the applications I use everyday have been replaced by open source alternatives, and I now only have a handful of proprietary software left. Even my operating system has been replaced by Ubuntu Gnome.

Since I am using so much open source software, I figured I would live up to this ideal by releasing the source code to one of my own pieces of software, The Costa GUI.

Still going - though not at fast rate

Posted on the 23rd of April, 2009

Wow, it’s definitely been a while since I last updated! Even though my career in the navy has taken a whole lot of my spare time, I’ve been able to work a little on Costa every now and then on weekends. Since my last post I’ve ironed out quite a few bugs and rewritten a lot of code. Visually the interface looks the same, but all executables have been reduced in size and improved in performance. Good stuff!

I’ve also written the second accessory for Costa (the first one being the theme switcher).

Theme selector done

Posted on the 21st of August, 2008

I spent today working on the theme selector. It’s as good as done now, and I think it turned out pretty well. Unlike the previous versions of Costa you don’t have to type the filename of the theme. Now you can browse the themes - with previews of each theme - and choose the one you like. The changes will take effect immediately. In fact, all changes you make to configuration files will take effect right away.

Since I’m hoping to get user submitted themes, all theme files contain theme name and author, which is shown in the theme selector.